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croaking…

01 Thursday May 2025

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often, now as I lay in bed at night, I listen to the frogs at the creek croaking their little hearts out…

it is quite lovely to hear and reminded me that I needed to move the camera – which was facing the driveway for the winter – back to its spot on the deck, facing the pond…

made the move today, after I charged the battery…

it will be interesting to see if it catches those bunnies that have been tearing around the garden at night, lol…

amount…

09 Saturday Mar 2024

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the weather has been quite silly lately…

there was hardly any snow on the ground last week, but then it snowed all afternoon on Wednesday…

a lot of snow came down… the only thing I shovelled then was a path to the hot tub…

very late that night my housemate shovelled the sidewalk and two-thirds of the driveway…

Friday I did about half of the bottom of the driveway as my friend would be picking me up on Saturday…

I was so proud that it only took me about fifteen minutes… and then my housemate did the same amount in five minutes…

kids, lol…

grandsons…

27 Monday Mar 2023

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got to have my grandsons over for dinner…

haven’t seen them for ages, so it was a wonderful treat;-)…

we caught up and they shovelled part of the driveway for me…

the shovelling was a big job as the driveway hasn’t been cleared for months, but it was a beautiful day… and, in the process, the youngest lost his AirPods… in a white container;-(… we spent quite some time digging through all the snow they had moved but did not find them…

we had Chinese food for supper…I’ve been craving it for a while so that made it especially good…

after supper I dug out a set of earbuds from my collection of ones that don’t fit my ears and gave him those… everyone played on their phones for a while as we chatted before they headed home;-)…

they have become lovely young men, although they still bicker like brothers, lol…

spot…

26 Sunday Jun 2022

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recently I wrote about how well the clematis is doing along the driveway…

now it is blooming… and I think this is the most blossoms since we planted it many years ago…

it has more stems and leaves too…

now that I’ve done the math… 🤪… I realize that it is about twelve or thirteen years old… I am actually surprised as I hadn’t realized how long it has been in this spot…

time flies;-)…

melted…

21 Monday Mar 2022

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the snow has been melting slowly and quickly, if that makes any sense…

when I look at pictures from a week ago and today it is more visible, so I can see how much has melted…

I went out and shovelled a bit to clear the sidewalks and some of the driveway…

there is still a lot to melt…

backed…

06 Sunday Mar 2022

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today the kids came to drop off the car… and shovel the driveway… it was sunny and a balmy -16C…

there was a lot of snow because it hadn’t been cleared for at least two big snows…

didn’t take them very long and then they backed Indi in so it will be easy for me to get out tomorrow… seems strange to see her in the driveway, lol…

and, they brought me flowers… what a delightful treat…

we had a short visit in the house before they headed off for the rest of their busy day…

toss…

28 Friday Jan 2022

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the kids came over on Tuesday to do some shovelling…

I am usually able to do the sidewalks and decks, but there is so much snow out there now that I can’t toss the snow high enough to get over the drifts, lol…

the driveway got cleared, which was nice, although as I don’t go anywhere, that isn’t so important these days…

part of the job was to level the tops of some of the piles in the back so I can manage again without the snow sliding back to where I had moved it from…

they were also able to widen the space where the windrow was at the front… it is much easier to walk to the front door now…

blessed to have the help;-)…

drag…

20 Thursday Jan 2022

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back to shovelling…

it was cold out there – felt like -35 Celsius – but I had to take out the garbage and recycling…

Friday is garbage day, so I wanted to check whether the bins needed to get to the back lane or not, lol…

happily, once the path was cleared, there wasn’t enough in them to need to drag them out this week, but next week may be a different story…

the snow is getting deeper and the pile alongside the deck is higher than the deck boards… this time I was really working at tossing it further, but it is a struggle…

I also dug a narrow path along the driveway to get to the vents for the furnace, to be sure they were clear of snow…

there is a ton of snow on the driveway, but I just moved it over so I could make my way…

sliding…

27 Saturday Nov 2021

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this morning the snowploughs came down the street and filled in the sidewalk and left a bit of snow in the driveway…

they also ploughed a big slice of my grass so that the fire hydrant is accessible… it will be interesting to see how it looks in the spring…

something I’ve learned over the last few years is that it needs to be shovelled as quickly as possible, so that it doesn’t turn into a solid lump of ice which can’t be moved…

I had finished the end of the sidewalk and was just starting on the bottom of the driveway when my grandson arrived and finished it off…

everything was icy… it had rained a bit last night and then froze so the cement was slick…

I was happy that he finished the driveway because my boots were slip sliding away…

but it was all done in a short time and hopefully the ice will melt over the next day or so… if it doesn’t I have a supply of ice melter that I can put on the ground…