A Slight Improvement

   The dire temperature warning has been amended up slightly but we are expecting another dump of snow overnight tonight.

The worst cold will be overnight tomorrow with a low of -17C. Brrr!

A Valentine's Gift

   A fairly decent day today, chilly but sunny.....but look what's coming our way on Friday. Luckily it will be short lived and we will be back to normal temperatures by Sunday.

Still more snow overnight but just enough to cover the messy stuff.

It was very wet snow so a bit of a slog to get the paths clear.

A Perfect Loaf

    I have really got away from baking since I have been cutting back on carbs, but today I needed some bread so got out the bread machine. Last time I used it, it had been making a terrible rattling noise. I actually thought it was on its last legs. However, I managed to remove the paddle and cleaned some gunk out from under it to see if that would help.

   First off I discovered I was all out of bread machine flour. Nothing daunted I resorted to all-purpose flour. Then I had to gouge out some crystalized honey (does this happen to other people?) and melt it down to a liquid as it is one of the ingredients in my recipe. Not a very promising start. However, the machine worked like a charm and, three hours later, had produced this very satisfactory loaf. 

Not too shabby, if I do say so myself!

The Snowbanks Are Rising

   No new snow today but more shovelling to get the driveway cleared. It was a sunny but cold day so that helped. Further north of us had extreme cold but here we were positively balmy at -8C with no wind. It was quite pleasant to be out in the sun.

As you can see the snow is beginning to accumulate where there would be grass growing.

The street was plowed yesterday so I had to clear the windrow. It wasn't too bad. That will be my exercise for the weekend.