At 5:00 Tanya sent a text that the Huntsville Santa parade scheduled for 7:00 pm and sponsored by Rotary had been canceled due to .....snow - yes snow - What No Santa??? Due to snow??? I am Canadian. I live in the near North with fierce weather in the winter and someone that lives in the North Pole won't come because of a foot of snow..... Obviously times have changed. Santa will now check the temp - nothing too cold please and of course not too warm and the snow - not snowing too hard - perhaps a light flake on cue. Well, too bad for Huntsville to make this silly call. Hopefully Toronto will welcome Santa even if there is snow on the ground. This morning it had really snowed in Lake of Bays. We seemed to get hit much harder than Bracebridge or Huntsville. The plow trucks were out and the shovels were working and neighbours were helping each other dig out. By the time I arrived at the office my very reliable plow truck operator, Chip, had plowed the lot. Simone had arrived early and shoveled the steps and the porch. The sun came out and it was a postcard perfect day in Dwight, on Lake of Bays. The snow quickly melted off the porch with the rays of the sun.
Luckily, I was at the office all day with the power on - but at my home on South Portage Road, I awoke to no Power and Hydro tells me the crew will be there by 8:00 pm tonight. Thank goodness for my powerful, automatic Generator. Everyone in cottage country should invest in a great generator. It is a matter of flushing the toilets and making a cup of tea. When the power is out in Lake of Bays it is sometimes out for 6 to 12 hours so the simple things become a necessity. If Santa had braved "the storm" last night even without power, I could have given him a glass of Merlot....oh I mean a cold glass of milk.
