I am always surprised as to how much water evaporates in the house on a regular basis…
Monday mornings I add about twelve litres of water to the fish condos as the water has gone down a significant amount since the previous week…
I have a Tupperware container that lives under the kitchen sink and is filled with water for the plants…
the plants get watered on Wednesdays weekly, but the tanks are topped up on Mondays…
the reason it is Monday is that my friends come every Monday afternoon and the less water in the tanks, the more noise the pumps make, and the loud noise can disrupt our conversation…
cannot interrupt important conversations, especially if one of us is on the phone…
the snowploughs came along the street about 10:30 this morning…
there were a lot of them… maybe two or three of the big ones that move the snow from the road to the curb…
and block off the driveway…
then come the buckets which clean up the windrow… I think there were three of them…
they always take a scoop by the fire hydrant so that it is accessible if needed… unfortunately they didn’t scoop out the sidewalk… sometimes if you are outside already shovelling, they might take a scoop there as well;-)…
not this time, but my housemate dug through it on his break;-)…
a while ago, I pulled a muscle in my lower abdomen…
it took awhile to get confirmation as I thought it was something else, lol…
apparently, shovelling is a really bad thing to do, which is unfortunate… usually I shovel the steps and front sidewalk… it doesn’t take that long, but after I shovelled last week, the pain got more intense…
so, today, when I had to go out, I decided not to shovel… it was difficult, but I remember the pain…
so I went out the back and walked in the tire tracks down to the street to get in the Uber…
as I was waiting for my ride to the pool for aquasize, I took a few photos…
this one is the Inukshuk in a circle in the snow… I need to find another piece of limestone to finish it off better, lol…
then a shot of the snow on the cedar branches at the front door…
we were happy to be going because last week we missed due to the Olympics, lol…
we were in the water for about ten minutes when an alarm went off… we were told to evacuate the pool and then to head to the lounge at the entrance and not to stop for our clothes or other items…
besides our class, there were at least two classes of school kids, as well as those who had been in the gym… quite a few people…
during all that time the alarms were ringing and lights were flashing… after about ten minutes a firetruck arrived and the firefighters headed to the back of the building…
another ten minutes or so went by and finally the lights and ringing stopped…
we headed back to the change rooms, dressed and left the building… as a treat we picked up bagels…
mine was quite delicious;-)…
also meant I made it home in time to watch the women’s free skate…
we’ve been a bit remiss in clearing the back decks on the way to the gate and garage, sigh… and it has become rather dicey when I’m getting into and out of the hot tub🤪…
it had gotten very rough and slippery so we tried a few weeks ago to chip away at it… unfortunately it was still too cold and the snow and ice were rather deep…
Sunday, I went out in the afternoon when it was quite warm (-2° C with windchill)… I took out one of the small, metal shovels from the beautifully organized wall in the garage and spent a half hour or so removing the slush and chunks of wet, snowy, ice, clearing a path to the garage side door (almost), hot tub, and driveway gate… due to winter ground heaving in the garage, we aren’t using the side door just now…
it was lovely out and I took my time with constant breaks…
it is down to the wood now, and will likely dry up nicely…
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