Oooph, What a Day

Any readers in Southern Ontario will be aware that we had some strong winds on Sunday night and into Monday, not as bad as parts of mid America but still quite interesting.  We lost power at 10pm on Sunday night and didn't get it back until Monday night at 11.07 and it amazes me how useless we are without electricity.  We had no phone line or broadband, no heat, light or hot water, we have a gas hob so I was lucky enough to be able to make hot drinks and food (and wash up).  The kids spent a long time playing chess in the dark.

you can tell it was getting cold in the house, Rose has a sweater on

Tom had to keep going out in the car to charge up his iPhone and try to find signal good enough to get data.  While he was out he took this video of the lake, excuse the fingers but he kept getting blown over by the wind, also you'll have to look at it sideways as I don't have the right software to rotate it.

I spent most of the day fantasizing about how great it would be to have an Aga and a wood burning stove, I think I'm going to start looking for a hobby farm where these things would be appropriate.

Anyhow, power's back on and I've mainly caught up with cleaning the thin film of crumbs which seemed to be coating the entire ground floor, so here is the weekend.  Jacob had his first bonspiel of the year and was a bit disgusted as his team came last so no photos, here he is with his latest Mathletics certificate, Gold this time.  Do you think it counts as Work in Progress?

On Sunday we went into town and bought snow boots for the kids, here is Rose in hers, I'm not sure she will consent to wear anything else on her feet from now on.