Trip Home

We left Blairmore just before noon. When we turned on the radio, we had Regina CBC to see what things were like in SK.

The forecast was for a weather system to move in from Utah bringing freezing rain, snow and then Thursday afternoon, wind. It didn't sound like a good combination.This was to cover the whole southern part of the province.

We didn't dawdle....we just hustled along with no thoughts of a side trip to see Anne and Gordon although I'd thought about calling them from Lethbridge to meet us in Seven Persons for coffee. We stopped for gas and bought coffee to go and skipped the idea of any visiting.

By Medicine Hat, we needed a brief break from the highway so we went into Value Village for 25 minutes and then decided to get back to the road. Anyone who has limited themselves to 25 minutes in Value village knows how impossible THAT is!!! But we did it!!

As long as it was daylight, we could watch the skies behind us....they were clear as could be....not one bit threatening.

When night came, we could see stars and then the almost full moon so I wondered if we were a bit off as far as the threatening weather was concerned. I'd walked the dog a few places, not needing my coat but then when we got to Moose Jaw...was there a cold wind!! I put my coat on before I opened the car door and when I got out...brrrr. I cut the dog's walk short.

We stopped in east Regina for more take-out coffee and chicken nuggets at Wendy's. When we got out of the city, we were into drifting snow and it was like that all the way home. You know what your dad is like in the best of driving conditions so he was not liking this part of the trip at all but we were both sure that we wanted to keep on until we saw the lights of Wolseley. It was his suggestion we not stop anywhere and I was glad of that.

We unloaded everything from the car last night because the chill factor sounded really cold for today.

When we got up this morning and saw the snow we got in the night, were we glad we were here and not in some motel somewhere.

We had everything unloaded by midnight. Dad went to bed soon after we got home. The dog kept wanting out and not wanting back in. I don't know how many cups of coffee we drank but it kept me awake until 3 am so I just read the papers and mail. I never thought to look out before I put the light out to see if it was snowing!!

I shovelled the sidewalks three times today. The snow at the front is almost up to the top of the hedge. We had hardly any before we left. Dad took the dog for the mail and some milk and cream but other than that, we just put her out on her rope in the yard. The streets were too deep in snow to be safe to walk on. The three houses south of us are all vacant so I shovelled that sidewalk and 1 1/2 sidewalks to the north of us because anyone walking, needed to be off the road. Walking between the shop and garage to get the bag of birdseed for the feeder, the snow was to my knees or above them.

I must have worn off some of the Christmas chocolates we ate over the holiday with all the shovelling!! The weather was not very cold so that was good. I don't know what happened to the wind chill. Someone else got it.

We watched the hockey, Canada vs Finland, from Grand Forks tonight and they were saying the highway north to Wpg is closed due to the storm so they didn't know how the Canadian fans were going to get home or where they'd all be staying. They thought they'd bring in another beer truck and just party the win away (8-1 for Canada) so maybe they'll start the New Year celebrations a day early. What can the boss say.....the road was closed!! I wonder what kind of a trip the fans had getting down there??!! Something sounds fishy here, doesn't it??

I didn't mean for this to be so long so I'm outta here!!