Guest contributor.
I stay in touch with what is going on at home. One of my friends wrote me this morning………….
“You certainly are missing out on the excitement of this gusting 60 knot SE’ster. R &RM still has his water frozen. Probably C&J, too. It has been howling a few days now!”
” It was snowing as well in the pass. And you know I haven’t gotten around to putting latches on our windows. The wind’s whistling roar is opening them, and banging them shut. Gets a little crazy when the wind gusts”.
” But this isn’t so bad. Not really. It was the logging road going down the other island so that I could get the ferry to town that was bad. Mind you, the ferry wasn’t running that afternoon anyway and so the attempt satisfied my adrenalin rush. You see, it snowed then rained and then it froze like the arctic. A frozen logging road is a roller coaster. Words don’t do it justice.”
“Imagine the road being as slick as when the Zamboni has just cleaned the ice at a hockey game. It was a sheet of ice in places. The hills and valleys were really something! Finally, as a grown up, I had my own powered tobaggan. So cool!!”
“”And tomorrow it is worse!”
“I’ve already slipped and fallen on the ice knocking the wind out of myself. Had to roll over to keep breathing. And I was just going to shut the generator off! Just a few yards from the house! Who would have thought?”
“It’s survival up here, it’s what we all moved here for without really knowing what it all would entail”.
“Spoke to R and R M and we can have their old 5KWLister light plant for the workshop. It’s a little seized, and it is a hand crank. But it’s in really good shape and comes with a like-new manual, having been looked after by a light house keeper under the direction of the Government of Canada. Bit noisy, tho.”
“And R G and MB have suitable spare and electric-start parts. Things are falling into place! It feels like heaven up here when things fall into our lap”.
” Gotta go! The wind is increasing again and I ought to go and lash things down.”
Do I feel guilty hearing of all this while I am mixing margaritas by the pool? Nope. Do I feel sad that he slipped and fell? Not really. Just so long as he didn’t get hurt. He’s a tough nut. And I have some plans for him this spring, you see. Do I long to be back there sharing the trials and tribulations in minus 10 degrees Celsius? Well, it is embarrassing to admit this but…………except for the frozen water lines, I do. Kinda. Our place is beautiful in the winter, too. I miss it.
But frozen toilets? Not so much.
Our Off the Grid Home 
Until our recent thaw the Fraser river was staring to freeze over near Mission. Not walk on frozen but snow covered frozen not seen here for years. Hope had a minus 20 wind chill. Schools closed up the valley for a week. In your neck of the woods and further north gale force Arctic outflow winds and snow with a blizzard predicted.
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Oh, I just HATE that pool picture! >:-#
(Power just came back on, after a heck of a windstorm last night)
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