So then, the prospect for additional snow alerts us to the fact that though we think the 28 cm. that fell on Sunday made quite an impact on the already significant snowpack we have acquired this winter, we're nowhere near what we will obviously end up with at the conclusion of the snowfall season, a month and a half distant.

The canopy over the deck in the backyard is once again well covered with snow. But then, so is every other outdoor surface. The garden sheds resemble mushrooms in the height of the snow on their roofs. House roofs have a burden of snow leaning over the roofs themselves.

And the sky, before noon, looks more than prepared to loose additional layers of snow. In fact, for the next four days Environment Canada has informed the listening public that we're in store for daily increments of between two and five cm. of new snow. Whoopee!

Our son in British Columbia told us that on Friday he had gone skiing at Mount Seymour while snow was falling heavily. But in Vancouver the snow that had fallen during a spate of unusually (for Vancouver) cold temperatures is finally melting, with the return to normal atmospheric conditions for British Columbia.

And on Monday, declared Family Day, as a February day-off from work, he put on his wet suit and went kayaking for a few hours in the ocean off Vancouver, keeping company with surface-bobbing seals.