As Winter gives in to....ah more winter???/

Ah yes as March break approaches I am cheered with news of days that are +11C back home and talk of seeing the grass in the back yard. This morning I woke after having a beautiful warm day here in Sandy Lake of  -5C to be greeted with , yup you guessed it, more snow.
Of course I expect that and we know that there will be snow falling probably well int April. As I head home with plans for pedicures for the coming of spring. Although my feet will be encased in my winter boots here for a few more weeks yet but I am the eternal optimist and will of course wear flip flops and sandles inside school to hasten , at least in my mind, the arrival of spring here in the Far North.

There will come a time when I wake in the morning to see the grass once again covered with snow, when  the night before grass was everywhere to be seen, when I will growl and snarl about how done I am with winter, but it will be short lived, the snow that is, and will melt quickly.

Of course all my friends who teach on other reserves can tell you there is also a point when we wish for the ground to still be frozen and covered with snow, at that is when the mud takes over. As mentioned before here in Sandy Lake  our seasons are the following Summer, Fall, Muddy, Winter, Muddy and Spring,

yup 2 mud seasons and they tend to be longer than the fall and Spring seasons, and far more undesirable than Winter. but it goes hand in hand with working and living here on the Rez.