... if you don't like the weather
out here, that is. Literally. Last Sunday as we drove east we were enjoying +7 degrees C, a welcome
respite (finally) from weeks in the deep freeze. (I was even a bit hesitant to leave in the throes of a "big melt" because we have a !@#$-pile of snow out there just waiting to overwhelm our drains.) It was still +7 as we started up the Brocket hill and get this,
minus 18 C at the top!
A 25 degree C change in less than a mile! And it remained at least that cold for the rest of the day. Arriving back
out here around 7 pm as we did, the evidence of the big melt followed by the "big freeze" was evident in the hockey rink formerly known as our driveway. Now fast forward to Monday morning, with -23 degrees C at around 7am but
plus 6 C predicted by that afternoon. Could Buddha pull it off twice in twenty-four hours? Sure enough, although it stayed cold all morning, at 1pm all the windows in the house suddenly fogged up - a
portent of warmth to come! The temperature skyrocketed to +5 degrees within a matter of minutes (
another 20-plus degree reversal!) and the big melt resumed. Instant defrost,
out here style!
