Winter Garden

It's been a really long, cold winter. Everyone, even the hardest, gnarliest Manitoba farmer is grumbling about the cold. The weather statistics say it's the coldest winter here since 1896. And we feel it. Each and every icy day we watch the temperature as it either plummets down to -25 with a windchill factor of -38 (or something of the like), or hover around a bone-chilling -32 in the sun.

There has been snow on the ground since early November (2013). And we've had a lot of it! We bravely and enthusiastically put up some snow fences hoping that our courageous (if naive) attempts would drive somehow miraculously drive the snow away from our house. We were miserably mistaken of course! We have been watching our snow mountain grow to an impressive height of around 9 ft!! This is our snow drift almost the whole length of the house. I keep saying, "It's coming for us!" It gets closer and closer and it feels like its going to totally engulf the house and all its inhabitants for good...

Our 9ft Snow Bank                                                            Deck bedecked with Snow!