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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;-)…

dump…

01 Monday May 2023

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Friday we accomplished a lot…

we sorted through all of the stuff that got put into the garage when we were cleaning out the basement, and piled the items onto the driveway which were for the dump…

a truck arrived, was filled with the collection, and headed out… when it got back the snowblower was lifted in, with help from a neighbour, and away it went to someone with a large driveway…

then we started to reorganize the items that were left and make space in the garage for the car and the motorcycle…

took quite a while and lots of organizing, but eventually space was made…

and the car and motorcycle fit;-)… maybe the next project will be to wash the car, lol…

a start was made on the items still on the workbench, including the million screws, lol…

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;-)…

snowblower…

15 Friday Apr 2022

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what a treat this morning;-)…

I’d been planning to go out and shovel the steps and sidewalk to the street and had even put on the extra pants this morning…

I had also moved my winter jacket from the bottom of the door and was surprised to find snow along the threshold… put my jacket next to the vent to warm it up a bit…

just before I was getting ready to head out, I heard my neighbour’s snowblower…

not only did he do the main portion of the sidewalk and the paths from his driveway to mine, he also shovelled the front steps;-)…

I finished dressing and went out and shovelled the last six or eight feet to the road so that people can make it to the door, lol…

we had a nice little visit outside before heading into our houses…

later, I went out back and shovelled a path to the hot tub… not sure if it will open as there is a lot of ice along the edges…

but, I have the option if the ice melts…

fairy…

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…

neighbourly…

07 Monday Jan 2019

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my oh my… it snowed quite a bit last night… and then the wind took over… blew the side door of the garage open and quite a bit of snow went inside…

looked pretty as I was leaving the house this morning, although the driving wasn’t great…

at the end of the day we left the office in groups to be sure that no one got stuck in the parking lot…

when I arrived home I turned into the driveway and couldn’t get up the slope as my snow clearing person hadn’t made it over yet…

vehicles were parked on the street so I was worried I might back into one of them if I tried to make a run for it… I went and knocked on a neighbour’s door… the vehicle wasn’t his but he thought it was from the house right across the street from me… that neighbour was shovelling so I went and asked about the vehicle… it was his, but he said I had lots of room…

he came over and tried to drive Indi up the driveway… as he was trying, the first neighbour came out to help… with a number of tries, and two of us pushing, Indi made it to the flat section of the driveway… thank goodness for winter tires…

I was able to get her into the garage from there…

I opened the side door to see that my back lane neighbour had snow-blowed the sidewalk from the lane to the deck;-)…

I took a picture of the spot where Indi got stuck, but it doesn’t look like a problem…

here’s the driver as he finished shovelling his sidewalk…

pretty neighbourly, I’d say;-)…

the tree…

05 Sunday Jan 2014

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took the decorations off the tree and moved it so that I could see out the window again…

Norfolk pine in its new home...

Norfolk pine in its new home…

rather funny, because now it feels like there is a gaping hole and the window looks huge…

this tree ended up being filled with a garland of butterflies that Cyndi made, as well as a snowflake with my name stamped on it, and the leftover hearts which she had made as gifts for her friends…

all decorated...

all decorated…

today I gave one of those hearts to a dear friend who stopped by… haven’t seen her in a very long time so it was wonderful to have the opportunity to catch up… she had to climb through some serious snow to get into the house, lol…

footprints through the deep snow...

footprints through the deep snow…

while she was here, Crystal and the boys arrived and Crystal and Kyler shovelled in the freezing cold, while the little boys visited with us…

they got the snowblower going but it stopped after just one sweep of the driveway and so they had to hand shovel the rest… took them ages and they had to keep coming in to warm up…

snow blower quit after one sweep...

snowblower quit after one sweep…

the great news is that the driveway, sidewalk and back are clear and if needed I can take the car out…

shovellers at work...

shovellers at work…

hopefully it will be warm enough tomorrow so that I can go out and put chemicals in the hot tub… although, even I don’t plan to hot tub in these temperatures…

 

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