Snow for Halloween...

[El Pollo Guerrera]

It's a tradition in Canada. A night or two before Halloween, it snows.

And it did today.

More than 6 inches of wet, heavy snow.

This is a picture of the trees in front of my home.

This is a pic of the trees in the back yard.

And this is a picture of the hanging love seat on the back 'porch'.

All this snow happened TODAY.

[lordlundar]

Surprisingly, though we have had snow throughout the weekin Edmonton, nothing has stayed on the ground so it's a non-snowy Halloween this year.

[BookstoreEscapee]

We got some rain in the evening, but it was in the 70s all day (but cloudy and really breezy).

We don't get any trick-or-treaters, though. I saw one little girl with her dad (she was probably about 6 and dressed as a genie, or a princess, or something) when I took out the recycling this afternoon, and we heard some kids outside at one point, but no one rang our bell (except for the delivery guy with our dinner ). Which is just fine with me. I'm upstairs and the last thing I want to do is be running up and down the stairs all day.

[AccountingDrone]

It's a tradition in Canada. A night or two before Halloween, it snows.

And it did today.



All this snow happened TODAY.

Can you send some down to me on say Thursday?

Rob is just putting the finishing touches on the hearth, and reinstalling the woodstove, it should be ready by then .... but with an 800 squarefoot house I would have to open all my windows to keep it from turning into a sauna to cook off the wood stove [until it actually gets down to about 30 fahrenheit, that is]

[draggar]

I miss snow. I really miss when it is snowing a lot with that light, fluffy snow. It muffles out all sounds - you see a car going by you but you don't hear it. All you hear is the snow landing on your shoulders.

[AccountingDrone]

I miss snow. I really miss when it is snowing a lot with that light, fluffy snow. It muffles out all sounds - you see a car going by you but you don't hear it. All you hear is the snow landing on your shoulders.

I love driving at about 3 am in that type of snow, when there is about an inch of snow on the road, and nobody else has driven on it yet. You get this soft shusshing sound of the tires crunching the fresh snow, a very 'soft' feel to the way the car handles when you let the car idle slowly, and the light delicate flakes dusting down in the headlights. I always found it very peaceful coming home at the end of my shift like that back when I worked for ADT. I would clock out at 2 am, and be hitting the last stretch between Willimantic and home at about 3 am. I would startle the occasional deer by the side of the road, and generally it was me and maybe a cop patrolling the road.

[blas]

Thankfully, it only snowed a bit on Friday night, and none of it stuck. It was a pain to drive in it, though, because what was coming out of the sky was a total white out.....but then melting as soon as it hit the ground so the ground was just wet.

It was the 4th wettest October on record here. Just plain miserable.