First Snowfall in Lake of Bays and Santa cancelled his parade

Of course I knew it was coming - after that wonderful fabulous long lazy summer and warm sunny fantastic fall it had to happen. And happen it did! I was driving from Huntsville to my office in Dwight yesterday around noon after doing a live radio on Hunters Bay Radio. My dear friend Kareen Burns has a show called K on the Bay on Fridays and had asked me to be a guest to discuss all things Rotary -she forbid me to mention real estate :( The snow was falling gently in Huntsville as I pulled out of the Hunters Bay station parking lot. The 15 minute drive to Dwight had changing weather conditions - I left Huntsville with a skiff of snow on the ground and arrived in Dwight with lots of the white stuff. When Simone and I left at 4:00 on Friday we had about a foot of snow and it was coming down hard. 
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.