OT - It's Sunday! - Weather Report from Southwestern Ontario

It started snowing (very fine stuff) on and off yesterday. I don't know if
it continued on throughout the night... or if it started up again early this
morning... but when I got up and looked out the kitchen window on the way to
the bathroom, I could see that it had been accumulating. It looked fluffy
and light on the lilac bush outside the kitchen window, so I thought when I
went to let the dogs out that I would take the big shop broom outside and
just quickly sweep the van off (even though it's still snowing the very fine
stuff like yesterday). I got my coat, scarf and mittens on and replaced my
cane with the broom (as I can lean on the broom when necessary) and opened
the door. Decided right then and there that I was going out *before* I let
the dogs out or they would be underfoot. I swept a bit away from in front
of the door so I could step outside and shut the door behind me.



Well... once I got out there I could see that there was a LOT more snow down
than I had first thought by looking at the lilac bush. I managed to sweep
off the small upper deck just outside the door, and also the one step before
the lower and bigger deck. There was no way that I was even thinking of
sweeping off the entire lower deck anyway... I was only going to push a path
to the next steps that go off the deck to the ground, then toward the gate
so I could get to the laneway and sweep off the van. Not gonna happen, I
can tell you that! Once I got to the lower deck I could see what I was
facing.... we had approximately 8 - 10 inches of snow, and it wasn't as
light and fluffy as it looked. I *did* sweep a path off the deck and to the
gate... but I am not going further than that.



Matthew is having a bit of a sleep-in this morning (after playing online
games with his best friend most of the night), but this is going to be one
of those clean-out-the-laneway-in-about-four-attempts things again like we
had a few weeks ago. He will be in and out of the house most of the day
once he gets up, shovelling out the laneway in sections. And it's STILL
snowing. The plow went up and down our street three times within the first
hour after I got up.


Oh well.... before we know it, it will be summer and people will be moaning
about the heat. LOL



Gemini

Hi Gemini,

Oh yes, the looking out the window at the snow is nice, but when you
get out there, surprise. We had about four inches of light fuffy snow
yesterday and more overnight, but at least the sun is out today. Now to
wait for spring and the flowers to come up.

Hugs,

Nora