Well Winter has returned in the Great White North.
Drove sixty miles up to Brainerd yesterday in a snow storm, the kind where visibility is limited to a quarter mile or less at times.
The last thirty miles up were not bad as they had little to no snow from Little Falls on.
Saw one car in the ditch after the wire/posts stopped it from going into the other lane on the way up and another upside down in the ditch on the way home at night.
From Rice, Mn, South on the way home the road was slick.
By the time we hit the suburbs of St. Cloud, the inner lane was mostly covered with iced snow.
I still scooted along at a goodly pace as traffic was low both ways most of the time.
We went to Sharon's Niece's place for a Valentines steak dinner.
Got off to a bit late start, as the cable telephone/internet went bad and hooking up the new modem became pain in the arse as the office still had the old one listed as being used so I could not log in.
At that the system is being changed so they changed out-door box guts because they were told to.
First guy arrived at One Thirty P.M. and , now three, guys were still dickering around when we left at Four TwentyFive P.M. in a true snow storm.
All things considered it was still an enjoyable Valentines Day.
I went home and back Sat.-Sunday and stopped at the Red Rooster Grocery store in Dassel , Mn; one of the VERY rare old school, very small town super markets, at least by 1960 store size standards, that is still around.
Found a dozen very nice, in perfect bloom stage, Red Roses for 18 dollars.
The other half is very happy.
It has been a very good week , and now I will go outside and shovel, approx. 3 inches of snow, for only the third time all winter.
Happy Flag Day of Canada
