Snow here in B.C. Three friends going south are stranded at my house, plus one going north. Add to that a friend with a friend from Montreal and all of a sudden I had a house full of people stuck in the snow!

Came home from work and cooked dinner for seven. I panicked for a minute wondering how I would feed them all with that old turnip but I managed a dinner of fried potatoes and onions with chorizo, green beans from the freezer (last years garden) squash, coleslaw and pickled beets. For desert it was rice pudding and rhubarb sauce (again from last years garden). What a feast! The friends provided the wine.

We started a fire in the fireplace and luckily my friends brought their instruments.

Amazing how the simplest of home-cooked meals can taste so good.

Considering it was all impromptu and temporary, I think I would call it hunkering up.