Yes winter is still with us. Last week was the dogsled mail run. I thought it would be interesting for people to see some of this activity and also the snow!!!!!!!!!
One day a year, the dog sleds race from Quesnel to Barkerville, carrying Canada Post special envelopes. This year the weather was beautiful, and there was lots of snow, as you can see. It is quite the spectacle.
We, on the other hand, have been shovelling snow for two weeks now. Before Christmas there was very little snow, and all of a sudden in January, boom, the snow started to fall, over two feet of it. It is beautiful, but the roofs can't handle it sometimes, and as the news has said, there have been a number of roof failures. Most of the failures were on the east coast, because here houses are built to high standards of roof strength, but we still had some concerns, especially if it begins to rain (which it did last week) on top of the snow, so we took the snow off the house roof and the barn additions. Then in the warm weather, swoooooosssssshhhhhh, the snow flew off the metal barn roofs. Quite the noice, the horses were jumping around like crazy when that happened.
