I Feel Powerless & that's no snow-job

Wednesday, the snow line on the mountains has dropped considerably over the last few days. This picture taken from the front deck, shows the snow line and the highway grade. It was nice of this coastguard patrol boat to pass by for the photo-op. There is snow in the forecast next week and temperatures as low as -9c. This means I'll be stacking firewood in the carport to avoid trips to the woodshed!
With more power interruptions scheduled for the same time period as the snow, we'll be heating the house with the wood stove for most of the day. Rumour is that the power cable replacement is going well and may be ahead of schedule. The cable scow and dive boat have been criss-crossing Baynes Sound for the past few days, pulling up old cable and laying the new ones. The scheduled power interruptions have been exactly as we were advised... right down to the minute, (although I did have a loaf of banana bread in the oven for one of them). By the end of next week we should be all done with the power interruptions. The picture (right) shows the scow with a large crew, I counted at least twelve workers, (not including the other vessels).
Thursday, while walking the pooch, the Quinitsa was doing an emergency drill which involved lowering an inflatable overboard and driving it around for some time before being hosted back on board. This picture shows the inflatable being hoisted out of the water.

SNOW, (and more power failures planned and unplanned) have plagued the island. Our version of "the big dump" of snow blessed us with about 14 inches of the white stuff. This post is finally being uploaded on Tuesday Nov. 28 as there just hasn't been any reliable power. If it wasn't failed cables, it was a wind storm or fallen trees weighted down with heavy snow. On Sunday, we hunkered down and kept the wood-stove stoked and endured an eighteen hour power failure... Around dinnertime, just as we were considering what to cook on the "Old Green", our Coleman stove, our neighbour called and invited us over for dinner, as well as a couple of other neighbours... (he has a gas stove)... how neighborly !!

The snowy landscape here is simply breathtaking. A young lady we encountered while walking yesterday summed it up, as she said "I feel like I'm in a postcard". The picture on the left is our country road.
As schools were closed on Monday, Ashley and her friend Stephanie made use of the driveway, which beacame a bobsled run. The snow removal here is as good as anywhere. A grader makes a couple of passes each day and the town center and ferry hill are kept bare. The side roads? Well, it's best to own a 4X4.
All in all, it's been an eventfull week and it's been nice not to have to worry about going anywhere if we don't want to. The pantry and wine cellar are well stocked, and a trail has been blazed to the woodshed.