More April Showers

On April 17th I woke up to fresh snow... about two inches of the stuff.  The forecast was calling for snow in much of the southern and western parts of Alberta.  Some places were supposed to get over six inches, though I'm not sure if that materialized.

This day is also my 61st birthday.  I can remember lots of birthdays when I was young, and it was mild enough and dry enough that could have my birthday party outside.   But not this year.....  I seem to recall that when we have had these really mild El Nino winters, as we did this year, that the spring that followed it dragged on for what seemed like forever, and we got significant amounts of snow.  That certainly seems to be the case this year.

We got a bunch of new furniture delivered to the house on April 16th, so there is definitely no space for a party, even if I wanted one.  We got a new sofa and chair for the living room, and two mattresses with box springs.  The old sofa and chair are still in the living too.  So everything is pretty jammed up until we can deal with it all.  We timed this to happen after the weekend, as we had our friends Chris and Connie visiting from Calgary, and they were crashed on the living room floor.

Our old sofa has to be moved out and hauled away.  We actually plan on taking it down to East Coulee and setting it up in the boardroom, at the shop.  Our old living room chair has to go down into the basement, once we clean up and organize down there.  The mattresses and box springs are all for the guest cottage, so at the first opportunity they need to be hauled out to Nordegg.  In the meantime we will have to live in the cluttered mess.  But we lived with the dinette furniture, and a bunch of other Nordegg stuff stored in our living room last year, for many months, so we are somewhat used to it by now.  

I checked the cameras out at Nordegg and there was snow out there too.  I expected that out in the mountains there might have been a lot more than here in the city.  It seems that is not really the case, though the accumulation appears to be a little heavier.  The last of the images below is from out at the cottage this morning.