Conserving Energy!

The season started off just perfect.

First, we were blessed with a white Christmas.

Then the white stuff just kept coming during the post-Christmas day period which was nice. We even got some snow shovelling exercise in which was good for our health.

By the fifth day of the white Christmas, however, the joy and merriment started to wane …

First, there was the excessive shovelling – Old man winter just didn’t know when to stop!

Then the shovel broke - and there were no shovels to be found in them normally well-stocked stores;

Then the car was stuck in the driveway  - and there was no salt to be found anywhere.

Then the threats began to blow in with the cold, wind and the snow.

Canada Post left me a sweet endearing note – “no mail delivery” until every last snowflake is cleared from your mail box.

Then the oil furnace people (normally nice folks)  left me an equally affectionate note “No oil delivery” until you have a path cleared to the tank (located in the bottom part of the yard).

Then the house insurance people informed me that “if your large deck is not cleared of the five feet of snow we are not responsible should it collapse.”

Not to be outdone, Nalcor got in into the threatening spirit.

“Conserve your energy or we’ll leave you in the dark!”

Conserve energy? Are you kiddin me Nalcor?  I have the  driveway, the walkway, the steps, the mailbox, the yard and the god-damn deck to shovel!    I have people on my back!

But then it hits me … NO ONE  messes with the Nalcor mafia!  That lot knows secret stuff the rest of us don’t have a clue about, they just about run the government and they have the protection of that big bad-ass bully called Bill 29.  Sure, they’re always reminding us they hold all the power.

So, lard thunderin’ why would I take any chances  – I am listening to Nalcor!

And when Canada Post, the Insurance and the Oil Furnace people come knocking at my door, I will inform them that Nalcor’s  threats have to be adhered to first – a royal government decree.

So, anyone wanting to wish for an over abundantly white Christmas next year – be my guest.

One thing will be certain, Nalcor will run out of power again next year (its an annual tradition) and they will demand that I conserve my energy like they did this year!

Which is why I am sitting here in my jammies with the fireplace roaring, candles ablazing, wine poured and feet up - no more endless shoveling for me this winter! 

And who says Nalcor doesn't have the power?