Snow!

Now that the semester is waning, I am more inclined to take time to post here. Unfortunately, I just lost an hour fiddling with the new Blogger Beta features, so this will be a short post.

Knitting continues apace; nothing to show since nothing much finished. Too much reading, too many essays. However, my first lace project is almost finished, Job's sweater is 1.75 sleeves and a neck away from being finished, and I've started new little projects here and there to break up the monotony. No pics to show yet, but probably in December.

I've put aside a lot of projects to do "in December" because I have a whole month off before the next semester (no exams!). However, I think that most of these are doomed to fail; even though "December" gets bigger and bigger in my mind, it remains only 31 days long in reality.

It is snowing in Victoria today. I have lived here for four and a half years now and I have never seen snow in November. This is exciting, because I haven't had snow for my birthday since we lived in Calgary ('96... hey! Ten years!). It would be awesome, but my birthday is still a week away and Victoria snow doesn't stick for long. We'll see.

Anyway, here is the view from our balcony at 11:00am:

Sorry for the fuzziness; it was COLD! Anyway, you can see that the roof of the daycare has a light dusting of snow, but otherwise the ground is visible. There is snow falling at this point, but the camera didn't catch it.

Here is the view from my balcony at 2:00pm:


I don't know what is up with the sizing on these pictures... weird...
Anyway, SNOW! All over everything! And still snowing! The trees are pretty snowy too, even though it doesn't show up (wrong angle), and the trunks were white at this point even though by now (3pm), the snow has melted off the tree trunks. But it hasn't stopped yet. One tree branch in this little area has fallen, which is a bit scary, and our power keeps flickering. It's really pretty, but I know that Victoria doesn't know how to drive/walk/dress/function in the snow, and that's scary. Job says that a pedestrian was hit this morning downtown just before he got to work. Yikes.

I'm no photographer, but I also got this picture, which I think is pretty cool:


This is from the 11:00 am group. Those white spots are actual snowflakes! Victoria has big fluffy white feathery snowflakes, unlike the heavy, wet bastards in Alberta. It's like a big, cold pillowfight out there.

Anyway, I'm happy that it snowed for Job; I know he misses it. Love you, sweetie! Happy Snow!