I didn't get to the Sunday Flea Market this morning because of the snow storm and work so here is a little story and a few pics of our first Nova Scotian snow fall.
A few pics I just took to help kick off the Christmas season. It seems that there is no longer such a thing as a dusting of snow. We were blessed with almost a foot and a half instead of the 2 inches predicted. We lost power. Thanks Godness I had a backup battery in my alarm, I had to work at 7am. This is what happened: My alarm went off, I hit snooze to catch a few more minutes sleep. It went off again, I rolled over a couldn't understand why I couldn't see the numbers on the clock then it dawned on me that the power was off. I jumped out of bed in a panic because I didn't want to be late for work. I work in the health industry and there are people who may need me to track down a worker. So I jumped up, looked outside, and said "Sweet love of God, where did all that come from, got dressed, grabbed Tracy's watch to see what the exact time was and then I really panicked. The time read 6:36am. I had exactly 10 minutes to brush my teeth, finish dressing and shovel two tire paths for my car so I could get to work. So I woke Trace up and we ran outside, started the car and shovelled our little hearts out. I jumped in the car (kind of like the way the Dukes of Hazzard guys did it
) and started down the road. I turned the heater down and adjusted the radio to get the weather. I looked down and the clock in the car read 5:51am. So I jammed on the brakes and thought that maybe the radio station had lost power over night and their clocks were and hour slow (tells you how lucid I am first thing in the morning). I shook my head and realized that the clock was run entirely by the car battery and had nothing to do with the **!!@#! radio station itself. (Now you now why it's Staci on the Millionaire show and not me
) So I started to back the car up to go home and realized that I really shouldn't do that because the road was poorly plowed and I really couldn't see out of my windows and mirrors. So I continued down the road to fine a spot to turn around in and noticed that the local coffee spot had power. I pulled a u-turn in the middle of the slushy road and made my way back up the hill to tell Trace to grab some money because Tim Horton's was open and I need at least a large with milk to function in the morning. So we bought coffee and went for a little drive to see if I had power at work and unfortunately I did. So I drove back home and changed my clothes and finished brushing my and dressing and headed off to work. So I got to work and started checking everyone's voice mail and then the power went out and then my coworker got stuck in the snow bank and had to pay a tow truck $57.00 to pull her out. But on the bright side, Tracy had the driveway pretty well cleaned up by the time I got home. Hope you got a chuckle out of my little story.