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14 Tuesday Mar 2023

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sun was out and it only felt like -14 Celsius, so I went outside to see about getting rid of the ice that has built up where I stand to get into and out of the hot tub…

ice here seems unusual, but could be because I haven’t cleared the snow on my path to the tub every single time it has snowed, lol…

anyway, I’ve slipped a few times so it felt important to clean it up…

that, of course, meant I had to get into the garage to get the ice chopper… but the good news is that now the doorknob has been removed I can get in via the person door again… so I had to shovel to get there…

once I had the chopper it took a while to get rid of most of the ice as the sun doesn’t shine in this area of the garden;-)… handy tool to get the job done…

was careful not to get too close to where the power cord goes… but, it is done and now safe to get in and out of the hot tub…

and I got my exercise for the day…

sidewalks…

12 Sunday Mar 2023

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well, it was called a blizzard, but it just felt like a lot-of-snow day, lol… Google tells me we had about two inches…

it looks pretty now that the sun has returned… and everything is very quiet… not sure how long that will last before cars and people take over the street…

hopefully, someone else is going to shovel the sidewalks;-)…

opportunity…

26 Saturday Nov 2022

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it was above zero today, so I took the opportunity to clear the snow off the deck…

it was beautiful out, warm and still… and I enjoyed my time in the garden, even if it was shovelling…

the weather has been a bit odd, with freezing cold days, then warm ones, and then back to the cold ones, lol…

texted…

21 Monday Nov 2022

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had a lovely day on Saturday…

started with six beautiful hibiscus flowers smiling at me;-)…

my grandson texted to say they were going to pick up some groceries and a parcel for me so we decided to have supper together…

I had a good time making stuffing and mashed potatoes, cooking mushrooms for gravy, and getting a chicken ready to roast…

in between those activities I watched speed skating and a Christmas movie, lol…

when the kids arrived we enjoyed a great visit and delicious meal… then he shovelled the driveway, decks and sidewalks… I truly am blessed…

it is always a treat to spend time with them;-)…

plastic…

19 Saturday Nov 2022

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was out for the first full sidewalk shovel of the year on Thursday…

last week I did the very front portion of the sidewalk closest to the road, lol… but the shovel I used was not good… it was heavy and the snow clung to the metal…

we went to Canadian Tire and checked out all the options… finally I chose this plastic one…

it worked well and as there wasn’t much snow on the ground it didn’t take too long…

a bit later in the day, I shovelled to the back lane so that the garbage bin could go out;-)…

and then the snow started again, lol…

big quiet flakes;-)…

wonderland…

11 Friday Nov 2022

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woke up to a winter wonderland…

there was so much snow on the window ledges that the cameras couldn’t see out… found some boxes and raised them up, lol…

not long after I got up, my neighbour came by with his snowblower and cleared the main part of the sidewalk and he shovelled the front steps as well…

a bit later I went and finished the front portion of the sidewalk where the snowblower can’t go…

hard to see the section I shovelled… it is always much narrower, due to the railway ties along that edge, lol…

I think that winter is here;-)…

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…

knee-deep…

20 Sunday Feb 2022

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got up at 5:30 am to watch the Olympics closing ceremony…

while I was cozied up in the bed, I could hear the furnace turn on and then off, and on and off, and on and off… I knew immediately what the issue was…

for the last three days we have been under a blizzard warning… I hadn’t thought that much snow had fallen, but I was wrong…

put on leggings, socks and my outer gear and went out the front door with a shovel and a straightened coat hanger… over the last years I have learned how to clean out the vents and be sure there is no snow inside them…

the snow was knee-deep in many places and I didn’t shovel, I just climbed through…

the vents weren’t visible except for a small hole where the exhaust vent was still blowing out air… the intake was under about eight inches of snow…

only took about ten minutes to dig them out… the snow was tossed into the middle of the driveway because there isn’t anywhere else to put it… did a quick swipe with the hanger and headed back in…

once I was in the house I could hear the furnace working… yay…

climbed back under the covers and watched the rest of the show, although about half an hour later my legs started to feel cold…

another example of those big girl pants, lol…

vents…

15 Tuesday Feb 2022

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I’m trying to laugh at the snow… it is that or cry, lol… laughing seems more sensible…

when I was out shovelling the sidewalks a few days ago, I walked up the driveway to check on the furnace vents…

and found them nearly covered with snow…

took a few minutes to get them cleared by tossing the snow into the middle of the driveway as I don’t need to get a car in and out of it… and there is nowhere else to throw it…

I was getting out of my jacket and heard a sound… when I turned and saw that one of the amaryllis had fallen off the table… there was mud on the carpet so I quickly picked it up… only to discover that the stalk had bent over and the blooms were hanging down… I got scissors, cut it and put the blossoms into a vase… after sweeping up the dirt I got a few pictures…

I guess it was getting too heavy to hold its head up;-(…

lots of activity… after that I had some time reading in the sunshine…

and, of course, more snow has fallen since then…

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…