My favourite weather!

Lo and behold last Monday was a snow day for schools but not for our work. The snow arrived around lunch time probably around 10cm but it was quickly followed by freezing rain which made driving scary. Unfortunately the truck decided that it would be a great time to break down, the alternator went on it. We borrowed Rich's car to get home and the next day David was laid on his back in a snow drift fixing it!

Two weeks before Christmas David decided to take down a wall in my kitchen! The only surprise there is it wasn't Christmas Eve like usual! Before the wall can be knock through he's removing a cupboard. This will mean the hot air from the wood stove in the kitchen can circulate through more of the house meaning our oil fired heating won't come on very often (we hope). It will also make a huge dining kitchen and we'll actually use the lounge attached to the kitchen instead of it being a walk through and dumping ground.

Harriet sang in the school choir last week to raise money for Christmas Mommies, a local charity which helps families on low incomes.

Today is a real snow day, even I'm off (sadly not David though). It started snowing yesterday and is predicted to finish tomorrow. So far we have about a foot though it's difficult to measure as it's so windy it's drifting in some places and only a few inches in other. This means we can get lots of jobs done and some of the baking for Christmas before the mad rush of this weekend when we're killing turkeys and geese and attending a wedding! (not at the same time)

David taking the cupboard out

Harriet right in the middle on the front row wearing pink and black

Isaac doing one of his favourite jobs, snow blowing and digging my car out!

Oh Christmas Tree

Today was our annual trip to get our Christmas Tree. This is quite a big event with families getting together for the afternoon to go out to the Christmas tree farms and walk round picking the perfect tree, we went with the whole Philips clan. After our twig I got free from kijiji last year the rest of the family were determined that our 2012 tree would be an improvement, as you know when you see a tree growing outside it looks quite small so you don't really think about if it will actually fit into the house. We did fairly well with the height but it ended up being a lot more bushy than we realized!

Harriet and Josy getting ready to choose

This was our first choice until we realized it was too prickly!

We used Isaac to measure the trees, this one's too big!

Our tree!

It's probably the biggest tree we've ever had with the least decorations on as we left most of our decorations behind and are still collecting new ones.

Harriet started 4H this week. Max wasn't sure what to make of meeting other dogs and the whole dog training thing. He actually behaved himself  but was by far the most lively dog there.

Molly!

Molly came back from the butchers this week, her hanging weight was 220 lb. I have to say she sure is a tasty pig. We have a number of orders for pork, we've sold out of turkeys for Christmas but still have some geese and ducks. 

Although we've had some snow and very cold weather recently getting as low as -22 degrees, on the whole it's been fairly mild so the snow melts quickly. Tomorrow we have 15-20 cm forecast followed by freezing rain (our least favorite weather),the kids are holding out for another snow day which would be nice.