June First.. Snow

Just when you think it is time to put away the ugly lime green Mountain Co-op Equipement HEAVY winter coat, it snows again in Salluit. The hills are once again covered with snow. It is part rain ,part snow now. Truly cold and damp. Not nice at all.

When Nova Scotia has a mild winter this would be the weather we'd have in Jan or Feb. This is the first of bloody June. I wonder how the little birds are making out? I heard them all last night and again early this morning. Poor little guys. They might want to rethink this move farther north.

The ice is still on the Bay. There is open water near the shore but the bay is still full of solid looking ice. Last Saturday I caught my first whiff of salt water as I walked along the lower streets. I hadn't smelled that in a few months.

I have packed away my winter hats so I have to wear the hood of my beloved coat up now. I thought I was finished with hats and mittens. I do wear my nice leather gloves, that have a light lining. I feel rather smart in such fine leather gloves after several months in my seal skin mitts. When I was a child I would take off my itchy long stockings before it was reallly time in the spring. Up here I think the girls will be in long pants till Aug. The day I was waiting for my brother to exit the airplane here in Salluit a new chap came round the plane wearing shorts. I wondered if he had any idea where he was?

We are still suffering with exams. Luc was waiting for me outside the school at 8:30 this morning. I think he was just a bit early. I think he is of the kind that wants to get it over and done with. There was not another soul but us in the school at that hour. I am always amazed that I am the first one in each morning. I used to come in at 8:00 am but that was too long to be alone in the school. An empty school is a spooky place.

I am still receiving parcels from my parents. The last of the surprises for my class. I hope to have a lunch and party with them on one of the last days of school. Their reward for a year where most of the time most of them worked fairly well. I have one boy registered in my class who has not been in school since Dec. I asked the others to find him and bring him back to school but he says he is only interested in riding his bike. What a pity. He will start the school year again in Aug but will drop out by Thanksgiving this time. he is a very smart boy but his family does not really believe in education, although the mother works in the school.

I am anxious to get the exams over with. I suppose the children are too.