The best hours

As I sit here today to write this post, the temperature outside is just -13°. It’s a welcome break for my car and for my home, my fingers and face too. Usually these warm swings in the middle of winter are accompanied by a lot of cloud, and in this case about 10cm of fresh snow, but that’s all a problem for later.

So many of our nights recently have been into the -30s with mostly clear skies. They’ve taken us out into some of my favourite areas of the countryside through familiar ice roads. The hours on these lakes have felt calming and meditative. They are my favourite times of my days - a little bit removed from the business part of all this having to be a business.