northernbliss

Thursday, December 31, 2015

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

May you live as long as you want
and never want as long as you live.

Being a lucky Grandma of these two little boys I thought I would share some funny pictures of them with you. The locker pictures were taken at the Ikea store in Abu Dhabi. Who needs toys when you have lockers to play with and parents who take the time to let you play.
And the last picture was just taken today - pizza for dinner on New Year's Eve that they helped make. Must take after me with their love of pizza. Jodie promised that we could have a pizza night when I go to visit again. Can't wait!!!

Be safe tonite...

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

BEAUTIFUL DOWNTOWN THESSALON

I had to go into town today to get some supplies - as you can see from the time stamp this picture was taken at 12:39 pm Tuesday afternoon - not too busy is it. But we had just had about 6 to 7 inches of snow so people were probably digging themselves out so understandably it isn't too crowded on the street.
It is nice to see the snow back!

Monday, December 28, 2015

SOME STORM DAMAGE AND ICE(?) CONDITIONS

Lots of small branches all over the place - trees on wires everywhere. Our power was out for 48 hours but we are lucky - some people once they had power lost it again. The second picture is of a tree down across the road into Parker's which we took care of. No damage done to any structures around here thank goodness.
Now it is getting colder! -15 here this morning with a winter storm on the way for the next couple of days. Looks like winter has returned…but the ice is trying - our lake has a thin skim of ice on it now but the other day there were open patches and Jobam (the middle picture below) is wide open and by now, in a normal winter, would be covered in a layer of ice thick enough to handle ice fishermen and snowmobiles. It has been a weird winter so far!

Friday, December 25, 2015

CHRISTMAS DINNER BY FLASHLITE

A delicious dinner of Campbell's Chicken Noodle soup by flashlight at home. We had to return home due to a fierce windstorm that knocked out the power to our little neighbourhood - actually all the way up to Ottawa and points in between. Our power is not expected to be restored until Boxing Day!!
Things could be worse!
Hope you had a Merry Christmas!!
And a great big thanks to all those linesmen working on Christmas Day to help restore the power!!!