Cold and Dirty

Oh my goodness it's cold around here!  I believe an Alberta Clipper blew through this weekend, that is a cold front from the prairies associated with high winds and extreme cold, we're certainly getting that extreme cold now.  This morning when we tromped off to the bus stop it was -15 and the weather network estimated that with wind chill it felt like -27.  Brrr.  I still had to argue with Jacob for 10 minutes about wearing snow pants though and when he got off the bus this afternoon he was carrying them.  Oh well.

At the moment the bottom half of the car is filthy.  Jacob is showing it off in the garage (too cold to photograph it outside) in Debbie McGee/Carol Vordeman style.  I noticed last year how dirty cars get here in the winter, I'm not sure if it is just the nature of the sandy soil in this particular region blowing about and making the roads dirty, or all the grit and salt that they have to use to keep the highways open.  Our car is actually not bad compared to many, I've noticed when driving about that it isn't unusual to be behind a car that is so filthy you can't read the number plate.

The silver lining is that you can no longer see how horrible the wheels look with the rubbish black nuts and bolts that they put on snow tires with, I shall be glad when our lovely posh alloys are back.

Rose refused to have her photo taken with a dirty car so here she is with her scooter and the Rav which we obviously don't drive enough so its quite clean.