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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…

sidewalk…

22 Friday Oct 2021

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the weather has really gotten fall-ish…

this afternoon my grandson arrived to finish a few jobs around the yard, including putting away the lawn furniture and then he and his friend replaced the sidewalk stones along the front flowerbed… they had sunk way down into the grass over the years….

this is going to make walking from the driveway to the house much more stable and it will also be way easier to shovel once the snow arrives…

service…

22 Friday Jan 2021

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I’ve been getting my Friday dinner for most of December and into January from Modern Plate Catering…

a number of weeks ago, when it was delivered, Curtis, the delivery person, asked if I had salt and then sprinkled it on my steps and sidewalk, which were covered in ice… how kind was that;-)… it is so nice to get to know the members of businesses, particularly in these trying times… the next week he brought salt with him!

today, when he and Lindsay dropped off my dinner, he had already shovelled the steps before I opened the door… he was prepared to shovel the sidewalk as well, but I told him not to…

good customer service is so important and makes me try harder to use good companies again and again;-)…

especially when the food is delicious, lol…

clumps…

07 Thursday Jan 2021

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about an hour ago, the city plowed the front street…

they did a great job of cleaning the end of the driveway, but the sidewalk always gets plowed in…

I put my supper in the oven, got dressed, and went out to shovel the end of the sidewalk…

I have learned over the years that if it isn’t removed immediately, it freezes into a solid block of unmovable ice…

knew that I had a small metal shovel in the garage and where it was, so I found it and cleaned all the clumps up…

went well and got it tidy for anyone who is delivering mail, parcels or treats;-)…

swept…

14 Monday Dec 2020

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yesterday my middle grandson came over to shovel for me… there wasn’t too much snow, but after the last snowfall, everything froze and the sidewalk was crazy icy… I didn’t want that to happen again, lol… there had been a skiff of snow and I had gone out and swept the sidewalk just the day before…

it was cute watching him put his hoodie up over his baseball cap, which he had on backwards, lol… of course there were earbuds in as he listened to his music while doing the job… he did have gloves because I couldn’t give him grandpa’s to wear which often happened before when he forgot…

he did the front, the driveway and all of the back decks and pathways… the garage camera even got a few photos for me… he was happy to get the December payment which will help with his Christmas gift shopping…

it was wonderful to see him, even though it was only through the windows… and now all of the spaces are cleaned…

touching…

21 Saturday Nov 2020

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yesterday I woke up to a world covered in snow… so beautiful, particularly as I didn’t have to go anywhere or should leave the house…

my grandson arrived in the morning to collect Indi’s winter tires and get them put on, and he brought me a beautiful orchid… he works for a store that, as of yesterday morning and the lockdown, couldn’t sell many of their items, so they gave the orchids to staff… such a lovely treat…

just before he left, he shovelled the sidewalk for me… I like to keep it clear for our mail carrier…

I went outside early, cleared the path to the garage, and moved a few chairs and other items, so he would be able to get to the tires without touching anything else… it was nice to see him, even if we didn’t get within 10 feet of each other…

later in the afternoon, I shovelled the deck so that I can get to the feeders I have set up… although, not sure I will be able to obtain sunflower seeds for them now that everything is locked down…

happily for me, the snow was light…

bricks…

22 Wednesday Jan 2020

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another lovely quiet day…

so happy to know that my shovellers will be by whenever it snows… Saturday it was the partner who did it all with a shovel… there was a lot of snow out there…

when it wasn’t snowing or blowing it was beautiful…

last night the city plowed the street and built some good sized windrows in front of the sidewalk… they did a great job cleaning out the end of the driveway though…

I texted my shovelled and he was by within an hour to clear out the bricks of frozen snow…

think this process is going to work well for both of us… him, not having to dig it out when it has frozen back into one large clump and me, having a clear walkway for my company…

lumps…

12 Tuesday Nov 2019

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was in the basement doing laundry when I heard scraping sounds…

excited to discover that my shoveler was in the backyard clearing snow from the deck…

I knew he was going to come again this year, but wasn’t sure of what it would cost so checked with him while he was here…

wrote cheques for the season and chatted with him for a few moments before he left..

this year I will text him as soon as the city clears the street… and produces the pile of snow at the end of the sidewalk… they are fairly good with clearing the driveway but do not even attempt the sidewalk… if you don’t clean it up quickly it turns into blocks of ice that are very difficult to remove…

my visitors use the sidewalk, so our plan is to get ahead of the lumps of packed snow if we can;-)…

very happy that he is thinking of ways to make the shovelling easier…

sidewalk…

11 Friday Oct 2019

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it started snowing yesterday morning and has barely stopped since then… I’ve spent the day taking pictures…

around 7:30 I took a few photos out the front and back…

a bit later I went outside to shovel the front sidewalk and the back deck that leads to the garage and hot tub… that was around 9:30…

I looked out the front door at noon to see this…

hard to tell that I shovelled, lol…

shots from 2 and 7…

not going to look anymore tonight, lol…

will have to check it out in the morning… am going to have to find someone to shovel the driveway;-)…