For those who lived in Newfoundland and Labrador in 2014 will all remember too well….#DarkNL. Practically everyone experienced some power outages. And some poor souls went without power for hours at a time in one of the coldest winters we’ve had in a long time. Here in this province, our weather can go from a beautiful summer’s day to having 10cm of snow. But this was a tough winter.

This one day during a blizzard, we experienced temperatures at around -25C with the wind chill. We have a basement apartment and try to keep the driveway clear of snow as often as we can. I managed to quickly take a snap of Kristian snow blowing our driveway that day. The clouds cleared a little tiny bit for a few short minutes and the sun blasted out. It was the weirdest thing to see in a blizzard!

 

The driveway got cleared but only for a short time, it quickly drifted in again. So, we waited until the storm had passed to do anymore snow blowing/shovelling. We got a lot of snow that day!!

We absolutely love the winter season and getting a big dump of snow like this.  The cats don’t like it so much though. But we enjoy it to the fullest. Snow shoeing, down hill skiing, snowmobiling, ice skating, sliding (tobogganing), building snow forts, etc….there’s just so much to do.

Here’s a pic of our snowmobiles we picked up for very cheap…1991 Yamaha Phazer and a 1982 Citation SS. Both were extremely fast machines. You may laugh, but they gave us great joy…we used these beauties for 3 winters, then upgraded to something in the early 2000’s.

I wanted to show you a little of what our winters are like here in Newfoundland and what we do when we’re not gardening, farming, harvesting for the rest of the year.