They say it's spring...

We woke up this morning hearing about this on the radio.

When I looked out the window this morning, I saw this.

We had a good foot of snow outside.  Fortunately, it warmed up this afternoon and it's already started to melt. Now it's wet, heavy and slushy.  Tomorrow it will be icy.  Fun times.  I really need to find that beach house I keep dreaming about.

Chinook Arch

I think I saw my first Chinook Arch today as I was coming home from work. I saw the warm wind pushing away the cold clouds. It was quite spectacular. The clouds were thick and pink and behind it was clear blue skies. Too bad I couldn't take a picture of it seeing as how someone took the camera with him to Boston. It really was beautiful.

Hopefully this means that we'll have a few days of nice warm weather. It snowed in town this past weekend. I didn't like that. I think I'm in for a rough winter.

As you might be able tell by this blah post, nothing is going on right now and I have nothing better to write about. Guess I'm in a bit of a rut. I need to find a hobby to keep me entertained.

The Weather

If there's one thing Canadians love to do is complain about the weather. If it's too cold, we complain, if it's too hot, we complain, if it rains we complain, if it...well you get the point. When we lived in Ontario the weather was pretty standard, we had spring, summer, fall and winter. Pretty standard stuff. Out here though, that's another story all together.

I don't know if it's because of the mountains that are close by, or what but the weather is C R A Z Y! In the winter there are chinooks, that can make the winter seem like summer. You can go from 20 below zero to 20 above zero (celsius) in one day. This often results in migranes. I've been lucky up until now, never having suffered from one. I hope to continue this but I have my doubts.

Today, was the craziest day yet. The day started off warm and sunny. By the time I got to work, it was cloudy. By mid day, it was sunny and HOT. Then it started to rain. About 5 minutes later it was sunny. Fifteen minutes later it started raining and then we heard pinging, it was hailing! I was 15 the last time I saw hail. When it stopped raining/hailing, we decided to go out. We went to Home Depot and heard that it started raining again. Then the power went out. I was thinking great, stuck at Home Depot with no power. Fortunately the power came back quickly. When I looked out the door it was pouring again and I mean pouring. And the wind, I seriously thought there was a tornado, the trees were whipping so violently. But then, just as quickly as it came, it left. Did I mention the weather here is crazy?

When we got home, our clocks were blinking, looks like we lost power for a bit too. We also left a window open upstairs. Quite a bit of rain made it's way in, mostly landed on the carpet, so that will dry. Note to self, close all windows before exiting the homestead, especially when it looks like there's going to be a tornado.

Wish this could've been my day.

Today was a really warm day. The kind of day where you don't want to work, just be outside in the backyard in a comfy lounge chair with a nice glass of lemonade and a good book. Instead, I was at work. Enough said.

When I looked out out the window after I got home this is what I saw. I found it hilarious because that's exactly what I wanted to be doing. I really needed this pick up, work was not good. It hasn't been good in about 7 days (work days). I'm ready for another vacation. Hanging out on my fence sounds like a good plan to me.

April snow brings May flowers?

If I didn't look at the calendar I would swear it was at least February. We woke up this morning to news of slippery roads, flurries and sub zero temperatures. I thought it was suppose to be spring? I guess this is spring Canadian style, you get teased with a little bit of nice weather but then were blasted one last time with crappy weather.

Being a summer person, this weather just makes me want to stay in bed under the covers where it's nice and warm. The warm weather should be coming soon, right?

Ice, Ice Baby

I'm not referring to diamonds either. As a result of the snow storm we had last week, there's a huge chunk of ice clinging on to the side of the CN Tower. It's about 150 feet high. This piece of ice is now holding a good portion of downtown hostage. Part of the Gardner Expressway (a major highway) was closed earlier this week as a precaution. Nobody knows if this piece will eventually melt off slowly as the weather gets warmer or if it will plummet down to earth. I work directly across the street from the CN Tower. Would it be wrong for me to hope that the piece of ice will fall off the tower, fly around it, make it's way across the street and hit my building? I don't want anyone to get hurt, I just want to have a couple of days off that's more than just the weekend.