Frightful may not be the right word....but it is strange. Today it is "freezing fog" here in Marathon. Has anyone ever heard of that? I sure hadn't....but it is exactly like it sounds. It is incredibly dense fog - like the kind where I can barely see the building across the parking lot. But also a thick frost this morning and a thin layer of black ice on everything. I'm fairly certain there will be at least one car accident come into emerg today to keep me hopping. I've already heard a couple over the ambulance radio but they were in different towns along the north shore.
I guess this area is quite famous for the black ice that develops. I have personally almost fallen down my front steps nearly every morning, almost taken a lipper in the parking lot every other day, and nearly gone flying right into the clinic door once. It doesn't even look like black ice! They should call it invisible ice, cause it's just that tricky!!
Sadly there is no snow yet. I'm anxiously awaiting it this year. Everyone in town is busy getting their christmas lights and decorations up while the weather is still nice, and its making me feel very nostalgic and mushy inside. In general Christmas is not my favourite holiday, but really it is more the commercialization and then angry mob of tired and frustrated shoppers that I don't like. What I do love to my very core is the chilly days where you start your Christmas baking, dancing around the house to the Christmas songs you remember from childhood, and the quiet reflection that passes over you as you stare at a Christmas tree.
To me - a Christmas tree is even more mesmorizing than a campfire. I searched my cozy locum house for any signs of a box of decorations or maybe a fake tree, but sadly didn't find any. So I'll just have to fill the house with smells of baking and sounds of carols and watch my neighbours trees go up. And maybe I'll put up a tree in January with Ray when he gets home for Fakemas! It is nice to spread out the fun to lots of days instead of just one....but I think this will have to be the last year that we spend it apart. :)
Sending you love from emerg through the fog,
Pamela
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