blowing…

04 Sunday Jan 2026

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Saturday morning I wandered around the house going to each window to look out and take photos of the beauty outside…

it snowed a lot overnight, but the lovely light kind of snow… the trees were gorgeous…

sometime later my housemate was outside blowing the steps and sidewalks…

he doesn’t like to be photographed, lol…

on his return home later he made sure the driveway was shovelled…

I truly am blessed;-)…

blizzards…

22 Monday Dec 2025

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we’ve had our first blizzards of the season… they sort of happened over two days…

Thursday, a good amount of snow fell and then the winds came… later the snow stopped and returned the next day with more wind…

I had to cancel two outings, so was able to stay home and watch through the living room window…

on day three my housemate spent over an hour shovelling the sidewalks and driveway… there was a lot of snow🤪…

thankfully, a neighbour a few houses to the north came with his snowblower and dealt with the area closest to the garage which saved another hour of shovelling…

the back door had about a foot of snow covering it and the deck… now it is all clear…

we will see how long that lasts;-)…

showing…

12 Friday Dec 2025

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it was very cold this morning 🥶…

it looked beautiful outside with everything covered in fresh snow…

I waited until around 10 to go out and blow the snow off the front steps and sidewalk so that it would be clear for the mail carrier…

today, I did not clear a path through the grass to the neighbours’ house… it was too cold;-(…

the sun was shining, but the wind kept blowing the snow back up at me, covering my leggings, my jacket, and my boots…

I was happy that I’d left my glasses in the house as my face also received a lot of blowing snow on it, lol…

I do believe that winter has arrived… even if it isn’t December 21st… feels like the sundogs are showing it;-)…

snowflakes…

09 Tuesday Dec 2025

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had a fun time outside a few days ago when snowflakes were gently falling from the sky;-)…

caught a few on my parka…

and spent time finding snowflakes along the stair rail…

they really are works of art;-)…

Vessi…

14 Monday Apr 2025

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so excited today to get my new winter boots…

the pair I’ve been wearing for well over twenty years have begun to fall apart in front of me;-(…

I wanted Canadian-made and decided to try Vessi… besides being made in BC, they are also waterproof…

I had hoped to try a pair on and went to the mall, but they aren’t carried in Manitoba…

so, I took a chance and ordered them online and was pleased to get free shipping…

I ordered them last week and they arrived today…

and they fit… I was worried as often when I’ve tried pull-ons, they wouldn’t go over my ankles, but I had no problem… yay…

now they will get put away for when the snow starts in the Fall and the falling apart pair will sadly head to the landfill…

straighten…

11 Friday Apr 2025

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shhhhh… the snow is gone from the front yard…

and I finally took a few minutes to straighten up the rain barrel which had been blown over weeks ago from some of the crazy winds we’d been having…