Now That's a Snow Day

We often get predictions of wicked snow storms here in Southern Ontario but a lot of the time, they fail to materialize.  I've learned to take all the dire warnings with a grain of salt.  Unfortunately, the school board usually jumps the gun about cancelling the buses and the weather turns out to be much less than expected and I'm stuck at home with bored children.  Just last week, there was a "snow day" which totally buggered up Pig-headed Girl's exam schedule.  They cancel the exams because the bus kids can't  get into town and push them (the exams, not the bus kids) all back a day.  Again, it turned out to be one of those no-snow snow days. Which just pissed everybody off.

But this time... this time they got it right.  Not only were the buses cancelled but all the schools closed as well. And you'd better be pretty damn sure of yourself it you're going to make that call.  Himself had to dig himself out of the driveway at 7 Friday morning and I went out at 9 to shovel again.  During the night, 10 inches had fallen and all day it showed no signs of abating.

 

 

 

 

 

This was taken about 4 p.m. after I had shovelled the steps and sidewalk yet again.   13 inches of snow.  That's a lot of snow to fall in less then 24 hours.  We haven't had that much snow fall all at once in about 5 years, so the weather geeks kept telling us.  Luckily, it was light enough to move.  The plow had come down our street and left about 2 feet of huge chunks at the end of the driveway but I don't shovel that anymore.  Himself has a snow-blower that he likes to play with so I leave him to it. 

 

Pig-headed Girl, pissed off that she couldn't go to school (sometimes I do really wonder about her) went to build a snow fort with a friend.  When she told me was doing this, I thought it sounded a bit odd, that they were maybe a bit too old to be making snow forts but when I went to retrieve my shovel that they had borrowed,  they surprised me.  They were trying to apply their physics, mathematics and chemistry knowledge to the construction of this snow structure.  The door had to be the right height and width or it would cave in or something and the roof had to be a certain thickness or it would cave in or something.  They were taking this very seriously.  I told them they should write it up as an experiment and maybe get bonus marks.  They both looked at me like I was mental.

 

Lego Boy, not one to really enjoy the outdoors, stayed in and watched TV.  I told him he should go and play in all the nice fresh snow.  He looked at me like I was mental.

 

I retreated to my jigsaw puzzle and left them both to it.

 

Finally, a proper snow day.