Oh, what fools we mortals be…

Having an extended stretch of nice weather the past few days, and noting on something called a “calendar” that it was almost mid-April, Mrs. That Dan Guy and I recently decided to put up our backyard gazebo, and outdoor lawn furniture.

Yesterday, we actually reached a high of somewhere between 12 - 14° Celsius. That’s nice even by Canada’s typically frosty standard.

Well, just before dinner time (supper in many areas of the country), it started to cool rapidly, and it turned downright ugly outside. That was the forerunner to a snowstorm of biblical proportions – like when Moses rained down a plate of locusts on Sodom and Tomorrow.

Our windows facing the wind were caked in a sheet of ice, and power failed briefly…just enough to miss a critical moment in the slow-moving action series “FlashForward”. Our gazebo and lawn furniture (pictured) became encased in ice and snow, and even though I covered the nicer furniture inside the gazebo, the winds blew that covering off – forcing me to don my rain slicker and boots, corn-cob pipe, and brace myself against the gale to re-cover the set of furniture.

This morning, I will have to go shovel my driveway. In the spring. In Canada…

Chow for now…