Winter goes on and on

Helsinki has been blessed with good winter this year. Typically, there is just sleet instead of snow on the ground, and everything is wet and dirty. Not this year; the amount of snow is staggering. For example, I cleaned the yard twice yesterday, and spent about 30 minutes each time pushing the snow from here to there. It is excellent exercise, but feels a bit worn already.

The national railways have had a lot of issues with the snow, and trains on time have been more exceptions than a rule lately. I’ll travel to Joensuu with the boys on Saturday, so hopefully they get their act together before that. People have been waiting several hours at the station for their train, and doing that with two and five year old guys would be torture. Well, that is to be seen on Saturday…