Winter's finally here. Since I last wrote we had a nice snowfall - about 15 cm on one day and flurries here and there. This is how it look when it started on Remembrance Day, November 11th:
Since then we had a mild spell with temperatures hovering just above and below zero. yuk! This is more like St. John's weather. We're not used to it being so mild this time of year. Today we have a temperature of 11 C with winds of SSE 54 km/h with gusts to 76 km/h. Very unusual!! Since I took this snap about 30 minutes ago the sun has come out but it does look rather bleak ( like winter!?):
With winter comes the wardrobe change. I've shifted around my closet and packed away my 'summer' clothes. Wouldn't you know that I've added a few extra pounds, so I'm faced with the dilemma of either buying new clothes or shedding a few pounds. Now I'm not a dieter and have never been able to stick with the new fads, but I like to eat healthy. Since I'm supposed to be on a fat free, no caffeine diet anyway, it's not a major adjustment except for one thing - Chocolate!! I'm a professed chocolaolic! Believe it or not, I haven't had any chocolate since September and a lot of my meals look like this these days:
It looks like a summer meal, doesn't it? When I think of fall and winter, I think of rabbit stews, caribou soup, moose roast, fish and brewis, and all the wonderful breads, doughboys, drawn butter and pastries that go with it.
Now we're entering the chocolate season. First there's my birthday, then Christmas, Valentine's, Easter, Friday, the weekend, tired....and all the excuses to have a nice creamy milk chocolate bar....maybe something very sweet like a 'S'mores' bar...(drool)!
Sorry, I'm not posting any chocolate pics today but I'm sure you can visualize them! Now to stop my chocoloate craving I think I'll go have a bananna :)
