Gnu, you dug out yet?

We didn't get much snow... but the wind! 100 km. gusts here, 175 up in Cheticamp! This morning every little hollow and valley in the snow was filled with green spruce needles and branch tips that had been ripped right off the trees. The big spruce behind the house broke off about a metre off the ground and took out four smaller trees on its way down. Power went out at five a.m. and just came back on an hour ago.

I asked husband about the outdoor kitten when I got up: "blew past the patio door half an hour ago" he says "no feet on the ground". He may have been exaggerating, 'cause the kitty turned up in the cathouse a bit later, seemed okay, if a little more fluffed up than usual.

I decorated the tree in the light of a kerosene lamp; ascairt to look at it in daylight.

Amos, keep it up and I will find out where you live and sic my deeply annoying Fla. relatives on you! >;-[