Good morning from the little city of Martensville, my home town.  I sure like the hype and attention given by the news media, 'snow storm wallops province', or 'major storm hits prairies'!  There were many more headlines like this.  What are they trying to do?  Sell us news papers, get us to read the articles below the headlines?  Or prepare us for winter driving?  I hope it is the latter.  I have been in these storms, and yesterdays surly was not that bad!  People just have to remember to use common sense, and start using there winter driving skills.  YES, there winter driving skills, that they put away last spring.  We have some new Canadian's who have recently arrived in Canada, and will be experiencing snow and winter driving for the first time.  They too, will have to learn winter driving skills, remember there was a first time for all of us!
  Today is Susan's day off, but wouldn't you know it, she has to go in for a work related meeting!  Usually all meetings are held on a tuesday morning, but for some strange reason she was working, so instead it's on a wednesday.  This has something to do with that obscure known law, "MURPHY'S LAW".  One of these days I will meet this person, and give him/her a piece of my mind!  Not that I can afford to loose any more, (of my mind) it's in short supply as it is.  It will just make a whole bunch of people feel better!
  This morning the phone rang very early I thought it was work calling Susan to cancel her meeting, 'Not'.  Instead it was my good friend Donald wanting to know if I was up and wanting to go for a quick coffee.  Apparently he was out of hours do to an hours issue in his log book, and would not be able to leave until 9am.  He had spent to many hours being stuck trying to make deliveries etc..  The unwillingness of the company he works for to spend money on clearing the yard of snow that they work out of in North Batleford.  Now today when Donald phoned in to the office at Batleford they tell him they are going home, they are even stuck with their 4x4.  So possibly he may have the day off as well, time will tell.
  When Susan returns home from her meeting in the big city, I am sure I will be entertained by what had transpired, and some of the solutions that would have been worked out to solve member issues.  We will probably discuss our list and then pick the next project we will tackle together.  Hopefully it will be something simple that I can contribute to, as I have a bit of a headache still happening today.  Just remember a bunch of simple things add up to a lot, when you are Building the Simple life......................