Markus’ Blog

Looks like we are facing another period of turbid tap water. And, just like last time, it looks like Burnaby is the first place where tap water turns nasty (and presumably also the last place where it clears up again).

By tonight or tomorrow morning our tap water at home is likely to look a bit “muddy” as well and it probably won’t fully clear before we leave for our Christmas vacation.

This time around the cause for our “nasty” water is:

• Last weekend’s heavy snow fall.
• The fact that it was 10°C on Monday and it all melted away very quickly.
• It was raining all Sunday night and most of Monday.

The hardest part last time was to remember not to just take a mouth full of tap water to brush my teeth. I am sure it’ll be very similar this time as well. Other than that it shouldn’t be too bad.

Looks like it was snowing for the most part of last night as well as this morning. There’s a lot of the white stuff out there right now. The temperature is 0°C right now, according to the all-knowing Internet.

Here are some pictures I just took.

There are probably more pictures to come. I am planning on venturing out there for a little walkie in the afternoon.

Perfectly on time for December 1 (is 2007 really almost over already?!) it started snowing — and snow started to stick. Doesn’t happen all that often in Vancouver, maybe once or twice a season for a day or two. However, so far, we haven’t even come close to matching last year’s first snow fall.

This morning it looked like this:

I kind of like seeing the landscape under a white blanket every once in a while. My dear wife, however, could not be disagreeing more.