Snow, Hockey and Cards

Been a bit slack on the blog recently, Martin, Margaret and Jon (Andy's parents and brother) have arrived so we've been fairly busy. Andy has literally baked anything that looked like it might fit in the oven so we have mince pies, pumpkin pie, meringue towers, chocolates etc.

Andy has sold some more of her chocolates , its not likely to make us rich , but she might break even and its a labour of love - here is the latest batch. If you have had some leave a comment on the blog for fedback. I think she was particularly proud of her Earl Grey truffles.After nearly 3 weeks with no snow we finally got a bit more yesterday.The weather turned warmer for a day and managed to make it above freezing which just created a big ice problem when it dipped below again - I wasn't able to brake in time for a junction yesterday, the anti-lock brakes couldn't help on ice. We're due for a whiteout today, not a lot of snow but snow with wind creates driving problems.


After a disappointing visit to the American football which was pretty dull truth be told ( I think the reason there are so many advert breaks in American football is to make the game seem more interesting) we went to see the Minnesota Wild ice-hockey team, and we got a great game.

After going 0-1 down, things picked up when some beer arrived.

Then we got to see something that had never happened in the history of the team before and had last happened in the National Hockey League in 1996 - one player scored 5 goals! Marian Gaborik played a great game, when he got his hat-trick about a hundred caps were thrown into the ring and caps were 50% off on the stalls.
The Wild celebrating their victory.












Dan ready to tube.