17 Monday Jan 2022
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today I woke to this view of the sky…
and a bit later I took this photo of the front yard to show someone how much snow was on the ground…
a tiny bit of snow had fallen yesterday and overnight and we are waiting for a storm tonight so I expect there will be more to shovel tomorrow…
13 Thursday Jan 2022
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recently watched an interesting Cornell Lab webinar about chickadees and learned something about squirrels…
gray squirrels hide their food – one seed, peanut, or acorn – at a time, with each item in a different place… and they remember where each bit is…
red squirrels hide theirs in one spot…
now it makes more sense to me as to why they scare birds and other squirrels away from any of the feeders as they consider them to be their property, lol…
this little red guy was at it this morning, chasing away the crew of sparrows…
and a bit later, this gray one was sharing the deck happily with the sparrows;-)…
maybe the red one was having a nap, lol…
12 Wednesday Jan 2022
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spent time in the garden on a beautiful warm day… we’ve been under extreme cold warnings for what seems like forever… shovelled a path to the garbage can and back gate… also cleaned the area around the hot tub…
finally cleaned off a good portion of the upper deck so I can get to the bird feeder… it was difficult to get the snow and old seeds out of the feeder, but I managed…
and just a few minutes later the chickadees were back for fresh snacks…
that made me happy…
31 Friday Dec 2021
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this morning there was an extreme cold warning, so I put on two pairs of pants, a vest, my purple Canada Goose jacket, mitts, and headed to the end of the sidewalk…
last night the snow plows cleaned the street so there was quite a pile of snow left at the street end of the sidewalk…
it must have been about two feet deep and two feet across… I was thrilled to discover that it wasn’t full of ice chunks and had not frozen into a solid clump…
once again, they did a great job of the driveway… it didn’t need any touching up at all…
only took ten minutes and I was rather proud of my work…
hoping the mail carrier would bring me some fun mail;-)…
and should there be anyone first footing tomorrow, the sidewalk will be clear;-)…
29 Wednesday Dec 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, family, hot tub, mitts, moments, nature, runners, shovel, sidewalk, snow, weather, widow
my middle grandson arrived yesterday afternoon to do some shovelling…
he made a path from the house to the garage… and then to the back lane… all around the hot tub… and the top deck…
there was a lot of snow and it hadn’t been touched since Thursday…
he, of course, arrived with runners on his feet, lol… he had good gloves but his hands got cold, so for part of the job, he used grandpa’s garbage mitts that I had brought outside…
the driveway got a quick shovel as well as the sidewalks… they had been shovelled and snow blowed twice by the neighbour…
27 Monday Dec 2021
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my friend dropped a bag of coffee off a bit before Christmas…
it was for our weekly gathering…
today, we met by video call… so I did not make coffee…
my friends were in the sleigh and I was beside the tree… good thing they were in that sleigh because there was a lot of snow outside…
as always, we caught up on everyone’s life and had some fun remembering winter sports we had taken part in, lol…
the entire time I could smell the delicious chicken soup that was simmering on the stove…
friends;-)…
23 Thursday Dec 2021
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it snowed quite a bit overnight and when I looked out the bedroom window this morning I thought I had best get out and clear the sidewalk… particularly after my learning earlier about not leaving the snow to get stuck, lol…
when I arrived in the living room the sidewalk was clear;-)… obviously the snow clearing fairy had come by…
that was nice and I sent a text to my neighbour, who may have been that fairy…
later I went and shovelled the deck and hot tub area as the tub needed water… I hadn’t realized how much snow had fallen…
I am so pleased with my extendible hose as it makes adding water much easier…now the hose runs up the stairs and out the back door, instead of through a vent in the wall…
then, while the tub was filling, I shovelled as far back as the garbage can…
a bit later, while I was eating lunch, I heard a snowblower going and thought it was the neighbour behind doing his driveway, but when I checked my garage camera discovered it was the snow clearing fairy cleaning my driveway…
what a generous gift;-)… the driveway is long and this will save my grandson’s back when he stops by for a short garage visit in a few days…
what a kind Christmas gift…
21 Tuesday Dec 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, cement, mistake, moments, nature, shovelling, sidewalk, snow, solstice, weather, widow, winter solstice
enjoyed the winter solstice by going out and shovelling the sidewalk…
also took a few photos while I was outside…
last night there was just a skiff of snow so I decided to clean the sidewalk… I hadn’t done it for a few little snowfalls and as I worked away at it I realized that was a mistake…
some of it was acting a bit like cement and was rather difficult to remove…
good thing I didn’t need to do the driveway 🤪…
05 Sunday Dec 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, deck, garden, moments, nature, peanut, shovel, snow, squirrels, weather, widow
recently I went outside and shovelled off the back deck…
a ton of snow had drifted there when we had that big snow a while back…
quite a bit of it had melted, but there was still a thick covering over most of the deck…
as I shovelled I came across a number of peanuts in the shell which had been left by the squirrels… I hope they won’t be too disappointed when they go looking for them, lol…
03 Friday Dec 2021
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last week I put lights around the front windows…
it has been an interesting process as I used duct tape… sadly I’ve had to continuously press the tape back on as it doesn’t really want to stick…
anyway, after I finished I wanted some pictures so I put on my jacket, but left my slippers on as I was only going to be on the sidewalk…
once the pictures were taken I went to open the door and it wouldn’t… my heart skipped a beat as I stood there – in my slippers…
I tried a few times, but it just would not open… by chance I turned the handle up which was the opposite direction than normal and it opened… whew…
talked to my son-in-law, who suggested WD40, but that didn’t work… had to put a note on the door, lol…
my grandson and I picked up a new handle and he was able to change it without a problem…
a tiny piece of plastic broke off which is what caused the issue…
happy to have it working properly again;-)…
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