From now on

Yesterday, Dalexia and I went dogsledding. It's something we wanted to try for a long time but since we were both jobless this winter, we didn't have the money to do it because it's a little expensive. And now even if I have a new job, I haven't received a full pay check yet and we can't afford a full day of dogsledding but my village has organized a winter festival this weekend and one of the free activities were short dog sled rides.

We couldn't drive the sled like we both wished to do but nevertheless, we had the chance to experience what it felt like being pulled by a dog team. It was interesting to see how they were tricky to control and we even had a smooth and funny crash that flipped the sled, and us as well, on the side making Dalexia's head hitting my camera lens but luckily no one was hurt.

This short experience has encourage us even more to try it again but this time not sitting in the sled but driving it.





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This is what happened to a local gas station-convenience store on Saturday night. the thick snow accumulation on the roof was too heavy for this building and it simply collapsed under all that weight. Fortunately, no one got injured because it happened during the night while it was closed but since many of those kind of stores are opened 24/24, it's almost a miracle that it didn't cause any casualty.

Today, in reaction, most of the nearby stores were cleaning their roofs. I even saw two men equipped with snowthrowers working directly on the roof of a drugstore! Of course, there is no chance to take...

There are more snow and even rain expected later this week...big winter it is!