Brrrr!

How do we know its cold? The condensation on the INSIDE of the double glazing froze last night and is still frozen at 11am today!

Well winter has arrived with a hop, skip and an OMG its freezing!

The snow started falling on Friday.... and we went for a walk along Barkley Road, which is just above us on Maki and to the right if anyone is google-earthing, to see if we could spot the local bear and mountain lion (guess who's idea that was...)

A light smattering of snow, enough for a half hearted snowball at Mr Reed and we returned to the cosy cottage.

But it steadily kept snowing and Saturday saw about 8 inches!

We took the ML on its first proper trip with the snow tyres into the village to stock up on beer for the fish and game club's pot-luck supper (and boring stuff such as bread, food etc etc).
With some superb winter driving by Mr Reed we managed to complete the trip without ending up in a ditch or spun across the highway! I am a coward and have yet to try the whole driving on snow thing but with my test on Wednesday I am going to have to do it sometime, especially as the arrival of the white stuff had put a halt to the reversing into a space practice...

We haven't been able to go skiing yet but the container does arrive on Tuesday (yippee!) so the first snow for the skis will be in Cypress Bowl in Vancouver (we have blue sky today and 100+cm at Silver Star but we are trying to ignore all the web cams of people having a grand time...we'll get there soon!)

View from Commonage Road, across Okanagan Lake A snowy tree