Happy Holidays from the snowbound! Belated best wishes for a joyous Christmas season! As usual, we are a day or two off the pace. The mountains of snow, while picturesque, haven’t really helped. Nearly all of our plans came a-cropper because of the unusual snowfall.
Christmas Eve church service was cancelled – and along with it went the Chinese feast we’d planned to share with neighbours afterward. Instead, we built a bonfire and had toboggan races down our steep road. Great Fun!
Christmas dinner with the whole family was also a non-starter owing to the poor road conditions. Luckily, my parents were in town and have a place in our neighbourhood, so we were able to share a ham dinner with them.
On Boxing Day, we were meant to be off to the Cottage! But it snowed all day – again – and we never left home. By yesterday, the snow had started to melt, but there was so much of it that roads were flooded, and the Sunshine Coast was hit with massive power outages, so we had to throw in the towel.
Now we are just hoping to get over to the cottage on New Year’s Day, for a couple of nights, and hopefully the power will be on, the roof and decks will have held up and the ancient, leaning-cherry-tree-of-doom (slated for imminent removal) will still be upright behind the house and not actually inside the house.
Here are a few photos to illustrate my modified adage “When life gives you snow, make sno-cones!”

A Christmas Eve bonfire with our wonderful neighbours

A Dickens of a fun Christmas Eve

On your mark!

Boxing Day Evening - snowing again!