While heartily singing this line from the carol, I stumbled upon the realization that the first verse really hits home right now.
Let me expand.
Oh, the weather outside is frightful,
- temperatures here last week of -35C.
- The sump pump water outlet had a chunk of ice in it, which means water backed up into our basement all night, which also means we woke up to carpet that had to be ripped out, baseboards taken off, etc. etc.
- It was so cold, there was ice inside the house on the windows. Cold was radiating from the walls.
- After attending Bible study we were thankful to have the truck to get us thru the hard drifts, and make it home safely..until we tried to get into our own driveway...where we got nice and stuck.
- Somewhere down the highway there was a power outage which affected our farm. Instead of having Three Phase power we had Two Phase, which means the house was fine, but we woke up (another morning) to the barns loosing their heat and having no water. The generator didn't kick in due to there still being some power. Since the block heater wasn't heating the generator anymore, when we did want to start it, the generator was too cold and needed and hour and a half heating before it started. (A great way to meet the friendly neighbours in a hurry!!)
- We were switching phone lines around so the barn alarms never went off, alerting us. Stress.
- It is. I count my blessings in the evenings, sitting cozy warm by the fireplace, with my loves all around in bed or right with me, filled with food and healthy. God is faithful.
- We don't exactly have alot of friends kicking around here right now where I could go to visit and the city is an hour away. But the friends we have are so welcoming and good to us!
- experienced our first chinook over the weekend and most of the snow is gone... so... it may as well snow some more!!
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| Crazy photo! I wonder who would have taken that? ;) |
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