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Augustine the Aleut
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Today's snow was perfect. It had the diamond-glistening in the silver light which reflects how December must be in celestial realms. It was light and fluffy, to the point that a scalp-tattooed neighbour one street over shovelled four walks from her exuberance, and my own 2-doors-down neighbour (a veteran of a year at l'Arche) came over to ask if I didn't mind if she shovelled my walk as well.
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Og: Thread Killer
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We really should have a word for the sort of snow that makes you want to help your neighbour.
Went out on an errand yesterday and enjoyed the wind and the snow. Person I went to see wondered why I would go out in that and I just stated I grew up going out in that stuff.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Og: Thread Killer:
We really should have a word for the sort of snow that makes you want to help your neighbour ...
There's a word for the sort of neighbour who offers to shovel your snow. It's saint. Unfortunately, for the most part my neighbours aren't that sort.
The snow started, pretty much as promised, during Evensong, is now blowing around in a Good King Wenceslas-ish fashion and will doubtless soon be deep and crisp, if not exactly even.
Goodbye, sidewalk - I'll see you at Easter. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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I have a confession. I was out calling old NDP members in this riding, getting them to renew, and I asked them for donations to the Party.
I am now a Bagman.
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Horseman Bree
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Ah, but if you had offered to shovel their walk, you would have also been a saint - at least in piglet's eyes!
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Piglet
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Do you (and your spade) fancy a trip to Newfoundland, SPK? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
We got about a foot of snow, but possibly due to the intervention of an ill-natured fairy, it had stopped actually falling by the morning and the roads had been ploughed, so we didn't get a snow-day.
Bollocks.
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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Nah, I had my share of snow when I lived in northern New Brunswick.
Though nothing reaffirms your manliness like using a large gas-powered tool to throw stuff. Take that as you will. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Meg the Red
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I don't mind some snow, especially when it looks like this. Ada Boulevard is one of my favourite walks, and it's absolutely beautiful this time of year.
Anybody need their walk cleaned? One of my frustrations in living in a condo is that I can no longer wield my mighty shovel. I am, as it were, a snow removal artiste sans studio.
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John Holding
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Originally posted by Sober Preacher's Kid:
Nah, I had my share of snow when I lived in northern New Brunswick.
Though nothing reaffirms your manliness like using a large gas-powered tool to throw stuff. Take that as you will.
You have a gas-powered tool?
Hmmm. THe mind boggles.
John
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Sober Preacher's Kid:
... nothing reaffirms your manliness like using a large gas-powered tool ...
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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You should see what happens when I pull the cord and the machine starts up....
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Og: Thread Killer
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Originally posted by Sober Preacher's Kid:
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Though nothing reaffirms your manliness like using a large gas-powered tool to throw stuff. Take that as you will.
Assuming the bloody thing starts.
Like your sig by the way.
[ 20. December 2013, 23:39: Message edited by: Og: Thread Killer ]
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Uncle Pete
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I hope you are all safe in the foul weather Canada seems to be having
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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You don't have a shirt on, do you Pete?
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Stercus Tauri
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We had the electricity back just on midnight last night after nearly 24 hours without. It wasn't too cold; the wood stove kept us warm, and we cooked on it, too. The well pump dies as soon as the power goes out, so it was an immediate lesson in water conservation. It takes serious will power not to flush... A day without the internet was strangely peaceful, but best of all was the church with no lights except for candles. No power for the organ blower, so just the piano. Things are looking normal today, but it's too cold for the remaining ice on the trees to melt or drop off, so we're waiting for it to happen all over again.
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Stetson
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Bit belated, but...
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Originally posted by Meg the Red:
Ada Boulevard is one of my favourite walks, and it's absolutely beautiful this time of year.
As probably the only person posting on the Ship who knows what you are talking about, I wholeheartedly concur.
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Lothiriel
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We have been very fortunate: we were without power for only eight hours yesterday, despite power lines down in the next street and throughout the neighbourhood. And even when the power was out, we were comfortable with our gas fireplace.
We seem to be in a fairly small pocket of restored power, though, so I feel rather guilty being able to cook and read and work when we're surrounded by cold dark houses. We've been able to offer help to a few friends, but I wish we could take in a whole streetful of people.
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Piglet
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Just popping in to wish everyone a merry, safe and, if possible, warm Christmas.
We've got a couple of feet of snow, making this by far the whitest Christmas I've ever seen, but so far no power-cuts.
**crosses fingers, toes, eyes and anything else that can be crossed**
![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Gee D
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And a Happy Christmas to all Canadians, both on the Ship and floundering in the water.
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lily pad
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Merry Christmas from another Atlantic Canadian island which is also beyond snowy. (I shovelled for close to two hours this morning and got about 1/3 of the deck done. It was waist deep.) Had a solidly good day despite all the chaos that is surrounding this week.
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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The stores re-opened today; Boxing Day is a statutory holiday in Ontario. There is no deicing salt to be had in this town at all. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif) My driveway is back in partial commission in that I can get in and out of it, but I still have to melt two broad swaths of ice. My car was iced in until Christmas Eve.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Sober Preacher's Kid:
The stores re-opened today ...
Here too. I decided that post-Christmas (and post-pay-day) treating myself was in order and went shopping.
Wish I hadn't though - I saw nothing whatsoever that caught my fancy. I hate shopping trips like that.
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Welease Woderwick
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I rarely go on shopping trips without seeing something I fancy...
...but they all seem to be married!
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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I did all my Boxing Day shopping online. I got store-class deals, and free shipping. I needed a new cell phone as my old one is obsolete.
When you live 40 km from the nearest mall and it costs money to go there, online retailing is an attractive alternative.
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Og: Thread Killer
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We lost power for 3 days (left on Monday, preplanned, power came back here on Tuesday). It was getting cold in the bedrooms - about 9 degrees from what we could figure. Warmest room was about 15. Friend of the daughter still has no power. Enjoyed heat and light once we got to family for Christmas.
Irony - lots of signs in the elevators here wishing everybody warmth for the holidays.
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Hearing abt the weather to east and power. Wow, what a mess. We are at a cabin on the Sask - Man border. -42° C or F. No skiing until it warms up!
Like SPK, I have a new phone that does internet and we're somewhat cabin feverish waiting for the -35s which is the skiing target temp by agreement today.
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-58 with windchill. I have my hand held weather station with me. Wishwe had some soap bubbles to blow outside.
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Piglet
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-58°?????
Blimey - even I'm shivering thinking about that. It's a positively balmy -3° here (and snowing again) at the moment but due to go back down to -13° tomorrow.
In the 10 years I've been here, actual temperatures much below -10° have been fairly rare, but so far this year's been much colder and with far more pre-Christmas snow than we've seen.
**brrrrrr**
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Horseman Bree
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The joys of Maritime winters. But, at least, if you don't like one type of weather, soon enough you'll have another.
I am quite happy to have moved from Winterpeg to the relatively balmy climate of Moncton
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Augustine the Aleut
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A lovely feast of S Thomas à Becket in Ottawa, only -27°C with wind chill. Another three degrees, and it will be a fatal exercise for a dog to relieve itself on a street with a NW breeze.
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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I had the most delightful experience of the Two Solitudes yesterday and today. I live across the street from a No Frills, which is wonderful for the grocery budget. As I passed through the freezer section I noticed they had Chicken Pot Pies marked on sale. St. Hubert's Chicken Pot Pies, with the chicken-in-a-bowtie logo. Perhaps the truck took a wrong turn in Montreal.
I had it for dinner tonight. Delicious, and not loaded on the carb count, which means the manufacturer didn't add extra sugar in processing. Chicken Pot Pies are notorious for that.
St. Hubert's Chicken pies in this Very Anglo Town. Who'd have thought, eh?
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