Just a quick trip to the shop's

When we found we were low on milk,bread,and a few other things this morning, we decided that a quick trip to our nearest town was called for. Bauska is about 25km away and boasts of both a Rimi and a Maxima supermarket, and they both share the same car park. Great! we won't be long,the roads will be clear and we haven't had much snow overnight,lets go.
This is all subject to the car starting of course, it's been a bit iffy of late and forward planing has been needed just to get it out of the barn, first I have to unwrap the engine removing a sleeping bag,pieces of polystyrene etc (with temperatures of -29--30c) these are essential. I next have to put the small electric fan heater close to the fuel pump, switch on and cover it all up again for about 2 hours. Then the car might decide with a bit of a struggle start
Fortunately this morning it was warmer only -9c and so no problems and off we went.
   The first challenge when driving in what turned out to be almost whiteout conditions is finding the road, you know it's there but where are the edges!!!! There are no kerbs or pavements to keep you on course,and when coming to a junction, fortunately there are some road signs which give a few clues as to where the road is.
Anyway, shopping done do we go to the small hardware store in Ieceva, or home?  it was unanimous HOME and a cuppa, mind you with only two in the car it wasn't a hard choice to make.
A  journey that would normally take us  two hours  had now stretched to three, and we still had the trip home, oh well, such is life! and we only have ourselves to worry about.


Everything went fine, snow had started to drift across the road, but we could still see, well, almost see the way I was reminded of the verse in the bible "we walk by faith not by sight" and driving today fits quite well in this situation.                                                                               We finally arrived home  to find our milk lady delivering our farm fresh pinta.                             
  

 
  The only problem we had was getting back up our own drive,and I had to dig snow out from under the car, eventually with wheels spinning we made it. Then indoors for a cup of tea and a piece of apple and ginger cake.(home made of course)