Sunday, February 17

Well, it rained today. Freezing rain. High winds. Actually, it was not as bad as anticipated. Forecasts of freezing rain are notoriously inaccurate, as there is such a narrow window between -1 and +1, but a huge difference in what happens. I went to a skirt-making workshop up at MERA -- the McDonalds Corners and Elphin Recreational Association where the creativity of the members is amazing. There is a weavers group, quilters, potters, and the group to which I belong which is the spinners and knitters. Each group meets regularly but we also hold regular fibre-arts workshops for our members on subjects such as felting, rug-making, basket making from our own withy labyrinthe and paper making. Anyway MERA is located in the old schoolhouse -- a heritage building -- and it is only 400 metres away, so I do not worry about weather. It was, however, quite slippery coming home, but the window of my car was wet -- not covered with an inch of ice, so the temperature was hovering above freezing.

Talked to Aidan in the evening and he had just come home to his house in the Laurentian Hills north of Montreal and it was very slippery driving -- even in his villlage of Pine Hill -- but snowy when he actually got home. Canadians prefer snow!