The window, the window, the window

The morning routine...get up, let dogs out, make coffee, and check weather on the computer to see if there is a "window" of good weather to get the trailers through to the southern US for a series of sheepdog trials. Then repeat the same routine to get back to Canada, dodging through winter storms that everyone always blames on "Alberta Clippers". Cold weather is always Canada's fault...

Every year, we become so obsessed with this that we get sick of talking about "the window, the window, the window".

And every year we swear we aren't doing the trip again after freezing in record lows, harrowing driving experiences and general feelings of stress, because invariably lambs that aren't supposed to be born at the farm until March start arriving like popping corn, earlier than expected.

Well, here we are on the road again headed south. We decided to leave last Monday, as the weather forecast for Saturday and Sunday looked the same and Saturday was beautiful. Well "the window" lasted less than three hours when a heavy snow storm started and we were forced to take refuge in a Walmart parking lot (the first of many, I'm sure). So we managed to get about two and a half hours into our trip... The fun begins...! :)




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