Winter Weather Has Struck In Earnest

I woke this morning to several inches of snow on the ground. And it's cold! Like freezing cold. -15 degrees this morning. Teapot headed into FSJ and I worry about him on the road. There have been several road  accidents this week one of which has seriously hurt a good friend's husband. He is in the hospital in Edmonton with a broken neck and is fighting for his life. We are praying fiercely for his recovery. It is a worry.

The Daughters have headed off to the bus stop this morning and I worry about them too since the wind chill is -30 degrees this morning since the wind is blowing and is quite gusty.

It is a strange morning this morning with snow swirling around and the sky looking deep blue as the sky is still quite dark. Yesterday morning was stranger still with the sky looking like this...

 It almost looked as if a forest fire was burning off in the distance... the old adage kept coming back to me... red sky in the morning shepherd's warning. Well, I'm a shepherd and I took warning. Somehow I knew that temperatures were going down and the snow was coming. Actually, most of BC is getting hit with stormy weather today.

The sheep are in the barn and the alpaca is lying down next to the barn. Honeydew is milling around the feeding boxes and the male alpacas are hunkered down by the side of their feeding mangers hiding out of the wind. Dreamer the horse doesn't seem to be minding the cold temperatures though we will haul out her blanket later today and get her settled too before the temperatures drop again. I wish we had a barn for her. I will just have to take tramp out to her paddock with a bucket of oats today and then I might have a look around the paddock for a likely place to build her a shelter of sorts.... something temporary at this point.

Teapot has just called to say that the road wasn't as bad as we expected and that he is safe at his workshop which is a great relief for me.

It is a good day to spin I think at least that is the plan. I have begun knitting again on my shawl and will continue to spin bison today. Later this evening I will get back to level 3 and pull out the charkha for cotton spinning. I am looking forward to getting the cotton spinning done and get on to the silk spinning. I have also received in the mail the fibre for my 150 hour project in the level 4 course. It is cashmere and you could smell it through the box... quite pungent! But then goat always is... It is going to be interesting keeping everything straight in my mind as I am working on two courses at the same time.... a fairly strange situation. But I am determined to do them both justice.

I have once again changed the look of the blog.... I thought snow for a background would be cool... but I'm staying with the theme of blue and spiders... just in a different way....

CBC radio is on right now and according to them the power has gone off in a number of places all through the province.... I hope we don't lose it here..... I'll be thankful when November moves on....

Before I go for the day I will add a few pictures here of what we are experiencing.....

So I'm off for a winter day.... quiet.... spinning.... knitting.... mmmmm some hot chocolate this morning I think...

Hope your winter day is lovely too....