A Drive Through Dorothy

Last week after the retreat I stayed at my Moms Sunday night cause I didn't want to drive home in the dark on snowy roads at -30.  It worked good.  We went out for supper and had leftovers so the next morning my Mom went to work.  I think its weird she works and I don't (not regular hours anyways).  I picked up Tim's and we had coffee and bagels with our leftovers for lunch.  We visited and toured her church.  Its slow on Mondays cause the pastors take the day off cause they work Sundays.  She said she actually gets the most work done on Mondays cause no one is there to bother her.  Except me that day.

I toured through Drum and the snow covering the hills at Dorothy was so pretty I had to stop and take a few pics.  I don't often catty my big camera along but I had it this time.

Sunday Stills --Bitter

Well it was pretty hard for me to take pics of bitter this week.  After Sunday got kinda nice and so waited till today in which it looks bitter out but in reality was really warm.  Sun is even trying to come out now.  But we headed to East Coulee for breakfast, I love there Sunday breakfasts, once a month we try to go every time.

(the river)

(no snow on the grass)

(water filling the ditches)

(and mud, yuck)

Friday was so warm down in the valley, between Dorothy and East coulee, the grass was showing even the river was melting.  Was warm here to but not quite enough to lose all our snow but it sure shrank down.  And now is back up again.

(Dorothy hill, I like when I'm not driving :) )

(Elevator)

(closer)

(and closest)

(and back home starting to clear up)

Still snowing but the sun is trying to come out, we will see how the rest of the week goes, Im hoping for warm of course :)  All week been thinking about bitter, other thing it reminds me of is old people, specially old ladies don't know why they can be so bitter (not all of course) Must be regreting stuff not done I always figure.  Hope next week is more cheerful ;)

High Water

We have had so much rain here in the last week we are up to almost 3 inches.  We ussually dont get 3 inches all summer, never mind all in one week!  But there has also been lots of rain in the mountains and so it made the snow melt quicker and so lots more water is in the Red Deer River.  I noticed last Friday and Sat the water at Emerson looked quite high, but never paid much attention to it till I headed to Drum today.

(East Coulee Bridge)

I was on my way to meet Susan and Lu for coffee since it has been so long since I seen them and it was a perfect day.  It was kinda cold and rainy so not much else could be done anyways.  We met at Tim Horton's cause Susan thought her house was too messy from her dog and his messy paws and she didn't have time to bake.  Not that we woulda cared, but I like Tim's too, so it was all good.

(Farther down river)

I also got groceries and an awesome deal on a kindle cover and a laptop cover and new stylus' for my DS.  All for $20!  I was surprised!  But I like it when stuff is on sale cheaper than expected.  I was very glad to go home cause Drum is horrible for tourists all summer, I sure try to avoid it especially on the weekends.

 (West off of Dorothy Bridge)

 (View of Dorothy from bridge, facing East)

 (View at river height)

But on the way home I stopped a couple times to take some pics of the water level cause it looks like we actually have a real river.  The Red Deer so many times is such a small river and later in the fall it sometimes looks like it could be moving backwards its so low.  Only one other time I remember it being so high at that was in 2006 and it was at least a foot higher and flooded many places out, I hope that doesn't happen again this year.