Thursday, December 18, 2008

Pattern continues, boring,

and bloody cold. Down to -26 overnight at the house, at moment -24 and clear, thankfully light winds giving -27 chills.
Forecast is for some snow [again] today and tomorrow then clear [again] Saturday for several days and cold [again].

The contractor on the new Nunatsiavut building withdrew their guys last week, work will resume in March some time. The original plan was to just take a short Christmas break and resume work in early January. Whoever thought that framing buildings out in Labradors mid winter was a good idea soon came to a bitter reality. The company had to seek special permission from the client to shut the job down.

The new Northern building is all closed in and the roof is on, looks like those guys have left for a Christmas break. On return they can use portable construction heaters to make work bearable inside.

JHMS had there annual Christmas concert last evening. I did not attend but grandma did. I borrowed these videos from the GD, hope she does not mind. The grandson is in a red shirt.

Another light plane accident with a tragic ending from down under. This happened not far from my parents home, and even closer to moms favorite green grocer.
We wont point this story out to Grandma for sure.

3 comments:

Shammickite said...

That's a great pic of you and Fran, now I know who I've been talking to!
Lucky new mum and baby in Sydney, what a shock to find your house demolished. Not so lucky student pilot and instructor.
We are expecting a big snowstorm tomorrow, not as cold as you though. Weather man is calling it Snowmageddon.... we'll see.

Anonymous said...

-26! And you gave up the balmy weather of up north (debatable) in Oz for that!!

Good blog change. I like clean and simple; goes with my persona! And we finally get to meet you and it's good to see you are as handsome as me.

Brian said...

There are more plusses than minuses [excluding weather] living here, horses for courses.
Glad you like the new makeup, should have done it before, and yes we are a handsome pair, maybe we should hook up at the next Bells Beach budgie smuggling competition ;-]