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January 17th - Fort Langley, BC

Just opened the door on the RV to take some pictures of the beautiful snow covered landscape.  Didn’t put my foot down though.  We have several inches of new snow, just came down over the past hour, on top of the six or so inches that we already had.  Yup, winter has hit Fort Langley, and it ain’t finished yet.  Forecast is snow, or at least flurries at least till the weekend.

The difference between snow here and home is basically the temperature.  Here in the Fraser Valley, aka, lower mainland of British Columbia, the temperature hovers between -3 and +8 C at this time of year.  Now, when the media is rattling on about the “frigid temperatures and terrible conditions” it is +2 during the day and drops to -2 at night.  So its lovely to be outside.  People here don’t prepare for snow, and frankly haven’t got a clue how to drive in it.  So it is safest to stay off the roads.  Or, drive very defensively.

Jack and I are enjoying this as a quiet time.  We knew the storm was coming.  This is the Pacific coast where they see weather patterns developing and give lots of warning.  We came back to Fort Langley on Thursday.  Stocked the fridge and cupboards on Friday and ensured we have lots to do.  I came home with lots of reading material courtesy of my sister-in-law and her family. Fourth reader of pocket novels which I will pass along to the fifth readers when I am done with them. 

Have also had some work (articles to write) come in which I need to do, emails to catch up on, bookkeeping stuff to do.............the list of chores needing to be done multiplies to fill available time.

Being in an RV during a winter snow dump in BC is as satisfying to the soul as being storm-stayed back in PEI.  There are no expectations that you go anywhere or do anything. Keeping warm and cozy, relaxing, veging out; are the expected order of the day.  Lovely as long as the bread and water hold out.

One of my most exciting events this week is getting new software for photo handling, and putting my photos onto an external hard drive.  John came out and gave me lessons on Sunday and helped both myself and Jack with some upgrading.  I went from having no available space on my computer to the point where it struggled to shut down to having 53 free space.  Computer works so much better.  It is wonderful.

On that note, its time to shut out the world.  Once its dark the inside lights put us on display like a TV in the woods!  I hate to close the blinds because it is like a Christmas card out there. Lights in the little buildings are glowing gold against the freshly fallen snow.  Beautiful. And the dark skies are a reminder to go get supper.

Till next time!