Saturday, April 19, 2008

if april showers...

If April showers bring May flowers (as the English saying goes), then what the $#&! do April snow storms bring? They'd better bring more than flowers, because as much as I love them a snowstorm requires a bit more. Maybe a small piece of jewelry, a massage or a nice night out on the town. ;)

The P-man and I arrived yesterday evening into Calgary from Frankfurt and they nearly had to divert us to Edmonton due to conditions on the ground, namely thick blowing snow. Not pretty.

We made out way home in a cab, snowing all the way, and I was left wondering if we hadn't gone through some temporal distortion warping us back to more traditionally winter months. Then, through the jet lag I remembered: this is Calgary. It can snow whenever it damn well feels like it.



I'm taking the weekend off from hacking, though I didn't manage to do the same for email so far. I played with ignoring my email, but 24 mails sent later I've obviously failed at that. ;)

I'm missing Europe already, mostly due to the snow and the great friends left behind there, I think. For now, I think I'm going to go curl up in front of a movie and relax a bit. See you on Monday =)

5 comments:

Mark and Jaye said...

M and the kids and I were sitting at Azteca (mexican food obviously) for dinner tonight and it started SNOWING...IN APRIL!!! UNLIKE Calgary, we don't get snow in April...so don't feel bad..we are in the same boat..a snow boat! lol
Hugs..and keep warm!
Big sis
ps..made the MOST awesome coconut cake for M's bday...will post a pic on blog now that I have laptop back!

Anonymous said...

Same here in Grande Prairie. I was driving today and hit a patch of ice. I ended up skidding and the front right wheel slammed into the curb. The tire was bent and the hubcap shattered. All the way home the steering wheel was shaking like crazy left and right. I changed the tire and everything seems OK now, hopefully it stays that way. Going to get it checked tomorrow.

If I were you, I would have stayed in Europe for another month. LOL

André said...

Meanwhile, we get a nice 20 degrees C in the Netherlands :-) Ah, the wonders of weather...

morphado said...

oh, what's about 35 degrees C here ;)

Anonymous said...

Yeah, I'm amazed, its actually 294K here!