at the cabin

Having had to leave the cabin early over Christmas, we couldn't wait to get back out there this past weekend.  Fantasies of sitting by the fire...ok we don't have a fireplace, we have a wood stove-without a window-but hey it was free!!  Now back to the fantasy-sitting in a warm cabin while the wind is howling, all curled up with a good book, just all out relaxing.

You can imagine our surprise to pull in to knee deep snow! Thankfully Chris decided to bring the quad "just in case" we needed to plow.  So after arriving early Friday afternoon we spent the rest of the day shovelling.

We shovelled the deck, a path through the load which had slid off the roof to get to the deck, a path to the outhouse and unfortunately the roof of our shed which looked like this:

which had snow this deep:

with chunks this size:

with the inside that looked like this:

How's that for a snow load?! 

We got all the snow off the roof on Friday; I think we know what our spring break project will be.  (Somehow I don't think it will involve the wood stove and a book!)

Saturday we made time for our own "sugar shack" during a break from shovelling even more snow off the camper, boat etc... The hardest part is trying to maneuver around in 3 feet of snow with a ladder.  Then, once you've shovelled all you can reach, you realize that you've buried the ladder in all the snow chunks that you've just removed from the roof(s)! Thankfully both kids helped a lot--any chance to climb up or on something and they were in!

Sunday arrived with all the wind that Whitehorse was experiencing. Ahhh finally we had all the elements for the curling-up-with-a-good-book day. Oh wait, Sunday means its pack-up-and-go-home day! 

Well so much for my plan.    Even though I was too tired to even look at book let alone read it, 2 days of snow shovelling at the cabin is better than any 2 days at work!