Well, it would appear that winter has most certainly arrived in Montreal. Yay?

Walking was a total nightmare since this city doesn’t give much of a hoot about the pedestrians who live here. They kept sending plow after plow up the street but none on the sidewalks. When I was walking out there with Hayley there came a point where I was up over my knees (and my boots; thank GOD they’re at least as high as they are!) and I was grateful that Hayley’s tall for her age because as it was she was almost hip-deep. We eventually had to venture out on to the (busy) street to get around a huge drift and I was nervous about it since you can’t count on drivers here to handle the slippery streets very well no matter how long they’ve lived here.

So that was fun. But Winnie had a blast! She was born in March so I assume that she didn’t see much snow, if any last year. We had a few little dustings recently that she enjoyed but this was probably her first real snowfall and she went pretty much ballistic out there. It’s a shame she doesn’t have a reliable recall or I would have set her loose in the field across the street just to see her go.

Later when Hayley came home she asked if we could go out to play and despite my best efforts I couldn’t think of a good enough reason to say no so out we went. The kids had fun (even though one of Breanna’s boots kept coming loose and falling off in deep patches of snow) and I took the dog out too. We found a frozen soccer ball in the middle of all the snow and apparently Winnie is quite the soccer player.

I’ve never been a fan of winter but I survived nonetheless. I’d better get used to it since Environment Canada is predicting a lot more snow than last year. Sigh.