Hello 

Well lots to talk about - I survived the real 1st Ice storm since the winter officially started.


The weather so far this winter has been temperamental - warm - wet - cold snow - back to warm again. So really a typical Nova Scotia winter. We used to get [in the past] weeks of one type of weather - either brittle cold or damp and wet with rain/slushy snow. I mention this because in the last 40+ yrs the weather has changed dramatically [Global warming anyone?]. 
Anyway back to me! This weekend called for storm and as in the past weeks i just ignored it as a lot of hype and expected some small amount of rain to freezing rain that would be melted once the sun broke through the next day. Well NOT SO!


There was this feeling in the air of pause - you know the kind of stillness and heaviness before a storm. The sky was grey and the sun was faint though the grey clouds. Not a bad day with just a bit of rain starting. My neighbour and I were out looking at wallpaper samples and discussing the best paint for metal outside doors. [Brilliant Blue or Ruby Red are my pending choices] We stopped into the MacQuarries on the Esplanade [sounds so high class haha] We go there because it sells milk at the lowest price in town. Really milk prices are crazy and I only put it in my tea, can't imagine families where the kids drink litres of it a day, time to ask for a change in the town bylaws so I can keep a goat for milk!


So what does the price of milk have to do with surviving an Ice Storm. hahaha Well let me tell you!


What do most folks do in a storm, besides curse at the weather because everything is cancelled? They stay home and watch the TV or in my case play MMORPG like RIFT and WOW. The main other thing people do is snack because there is nothing else to do - duh stuck at home. YOU need Milk and snacker stuff - how else are you gonna survive? 

My house AKA the Zoo - not covered in Ice incase the picture was too confusing 

 

Cute little goats - someday in my backyard?

As Stated above 

So the rain came and the temperature dropped just enough to freeze the little raindrops and it encased my house and yard in layers of Water and Ice. Inside thanks to my almost predestined run to the store, I was drinking copious amounts of tea - with Milk of course - and completing Quests and killing Monsters and Villainous Big Bosses in Virtual reality. But would not have survived without milk for my tea. 

Hey did you think this was going to be about some Journey of Self Discovery in the midst of a full raging winter Ice storm with metaphors about living encased in isolation and not having the warmth of a relationship to keep me centered and then breaking free of my cold sterile space to rejoice in the warmth of friendship and human companionship?


Heck no!! Just me drinking  tea and kicking ass through my avatar. 

For The Horde!!

Direct  from the Zoo