On this first day of Christmas we are sitting tight in our home in Winnipeg. Christmas Day dawned crisp and clear with the threat of bad weather to come. Mother Nature did not disappoint and overnight there was more than 20 centimetres of snow dumped on "Winter"peg. For the first time in the three years at our current address there was no way to open the back door and there was no way to get in the backyard to shovel said door since the back gate was also blocked with snow. With a little creativity and foresight to keep the shovel within arms reach of the back door it was wiggled open enough to reach the shovel and to one handedly get enough snow out of the way to get the door open a bit then a bit more and eventually enough for two excited critters to leap out in the snow banks (suffice it to say they were the only happy ones about snow in this house).
We were initially scheduled to fly on this first day of Christmas as my true love gave to me tickets home. Old man winter had a completely different idea! So we patiently wait for the rescheduled flight thanks to the wonderful customer service agents at Westjet. We will get there if a little late!
This first day of Christmas is not without additional issues and the power got knocked out and we await the hard working hydro personnel to restore it for us.
This all got me to thinking about the song the Twelve Days of Christmas and the lovely items that are sung about. As we cleared snow, I thought what would I change those lyrics to....on the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me help with the snow clearing.... it kind of has a neat ring to it!
I can't wait to see what the second day of Christmas will bring!
Here we are all finished clearing the driveway....only about 3 hours
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