Time of the Year

For the last couple of days, it certainly has felt like fall was in the wind. At 10:15 a.m. today we were receiving a light rain in Hanley. I was sitting at the kitchen table reading the Star Phoenix. One minute I looked down and the next I looked up and big white snow flakes were coming down. The snow got heavy enough to impair the view across the street. I thought we were going to have our first blizzard of the year.

Of course not though. After about 10 minutes, the snow changed back to rain and then petered out to nothing. Just prior to the snow, Sam had asked what the outside temperature was so I took a look at our gauge. It showed 2.7 C. As the snow changed to rain and then stopped, I again looked at the gauge. The temperature was now 0.4 C.

About this time James called all excited saying he was in Manitoba and it was snowing there. I advised him that it was also snowing here. He then cursed a little bit stating that he needed new tires for his truck in the near future. I guess he was dropping something off at a farmer in the Saltcoats area and he nearly got stuck. This was on just wet grass so you can imagine what the nice snow and ice would do. Hopefully the boss agrees and puts new mitts on James truck in the near future.

James is enroute to Fargo, North Dakota. From there he is heading back to Manitoba to pick up a load and then on to Moosomin, Sask and ultimately Grande Prairie, Alberta. It would be nice if on his drive through Saskatoon, he can gets some new tires for his truck. Grande Prairie is a lot further north than Hanley, so I'm sure it is getting a lot cooler than we are here.

James was glad he was heading south once again. He hoped it was warmer there than what he had to go through last nite. It got darn cool in the truck overnite. One bright spot was that he actually was able to watch CTV tv (probably out of Yorkton) last night. When he shut the truck down, the wavy lines even departed from the tv screen :)

Oh to be able to watch 'farmer vision' once again!