I read the stories about the Warbirds in ODN. One commenter wrote about Oliver being the “whine “capital of Canada.
I think Edmonton has Oliver beaten. Last Tuesday we received a surprise snow fall, actually just a sprinkling within the City limits. You should have heard the whining, and we are a winter city!
I just told those folks, “relax the snow will be gone by April of 2015!”
Well, our snow turned out to be just like Oliver’s snows, it melted!
As a boy, I can remember when we sometimes received two feet of snow. I always hoped it would stay but it never did. Auntie Kay would make me dress warmly and I would go outside and make a snowman.I would roll up the snow until I couldn’t move it any more and that would be the base. By the time I got the second stage up I was fed up with all the effort and would go do something else.
Wally didn’t let the snow slow down his pruning. He would take out the pruning tools and get the job done. The work got a lot easier when he bought the Kangaroo, although he usually waited until the snow melted some before running the Kangaroo in the white stuff.
One of the nice things about the Okanagan is that the snow melts in the winter, at least I remember it that way. Snow melting won’t happen often as the winter months draw closer in Edmonton.
I would like to credit the Oliver Daily News for being instrumental in reconnecting me with a childhood friend, a fellow I’ve lost touch with for 44 years.