Category: Orbs? in Photos? –

Tuesday, February 14th, 2017 —>  -10˚C / +14˚F with ‘light snow’ blowing around @ 8:54 am —> I think we survived —> Counting fingers and toes —> The wind chill earlier was -18˚C / 0˚F —>  Today would be my Godfather, Larry Toronto’s Birthday —> Happy Valentines Day? —

– “Drift Height” At 7:50 am this morning. When the plow finally found our street it left us only about eight inches of heavily packed ridge of snow at the end of the driveway, but it sure looked like a case of, ‘Ya can’t get there from here-‘ even after digging and snow-blowing into the night. –

— Cathi and I were out digging and snow-blowing until midnight and still had this much snow to deal with at a time when she would have had to be halfway to work if she was going in today – This is @ ten minutes to 8 this morning.

– 9:27 pm – February 13th – 2017 – This is Cathi digging out the canyon from the porch to the shed where we had to knock down the steel shed’s door to get at the snow blower –

— There was still a little bit of snow either still falling or flying around at 9:27 pm when I took the photo of Cathi working on the trench from the porch door to the steel shed where we had a bit of a problem getting the snow-blower out to begin with – had to knock the door off its track and pull it out of the way to get at the snow blower. –

– This was taken one minute before I took the photo of Cathi digging in the trench – This is before we started the snowblower- Don’t know what the ‘anomalous lights’ are heading in different directions here – Your guess is as good as mine –

— I thought I’d like to take a ‘Before’ photo before we started the Snow-Blower and attacked the snow drifts here – the above is what I got, with a couple surprises in the ‘anomalous lights’ department.

– The snow blower is chugging along, singing, “I think I can-” to itself here. I think Cathi got better photos of me and the snowblower at work – they’re on her facebook page –

— The black plastic thing you can see attached to the red snow blower here came off when I was struggling alongside a five foot high drift that caved in and fell across the snowblower – It was easy enough to find the black plastic thingamajig – that you’re supposed to use to get ice chunks out of the blades, hopefully without loosing any fingers or other important body parts – But the little red choke knob disappeared and maybe we’ll find it later – if the snow ever melts – and this isn’t the beginning of a new ice age ???

– “I think I can .02”? With another strange streak of light ‘photo-bombing’ us here. –

— We get a lot of orbs when we’re shooting photos out there in the driveway-

– 11:16 pm – During a bit of a warm up break – The dog wants to know if I’m still alive – and can I get him some kind of treat to prove it? –

— When the cat looks at me like that I get the creepy feeling that he’s asking, “Are you dead yet? Can I eat you now?” With the dog it’s more like, “Oh no- if you’re dead who can I blackmail for half as many treats as I get out of you?”

– This was our road at 11:23 pm last night. The city trucks were still concentrating on the main roads in town and there still was a ban on non-emergency vehicles in place. A landlord with a 4 or six family rental house up the street came through with his own plow and carved one lane through the snow all the way up to his apartment building. – I don’t know if he went any farther- Haven’t been up that way, and the city sent its yellow industrial earth mover up here with its plow attached at about 5:30 am this morning. –

— The landlord who owns an apartment up the street came through and plowed one lane of our two lane ‘Court’ here- There is between 4 and six feet of the lane on our side of the street covered in snow in this photo- I made it halfway up to our nearest neighbour’s driveway and the snow-blower began spitting and sputtering. So I gave up on that good deed –

– This is looking East from the same spot as the previous photo – Highly reflective stop sign off to the right of the snow drift in the road. I tried carving into a bit of the heavily packed wind-driven snow in the road downhill that way and learned that the snow-blower didn’t want to go downhill either. –

— It isn’t easy trying to get a twenty seven inch wide, um, two feet high? – snowblower to work in the face of five feet tall (and taller?) drifts of heavily packed snow, even the light fluffy stuff that was packed pretty danged hard when you got a foot below the surface – I spent a lot of time last night with the shovel, knocking the top of drifts down and into the path I’d been able to make with the snow-blower already – After an hour and a half of chugging away the snow blower started coughing and sputtering and shut itself off several times. That’s When I discovered that the choke’s knob had gone missing. 🙁  – I gave up around midnight, slept lightly, woke up when the earth mover plowed the road, noticed that it looked like the plow only left about six inches of ridge at the end of our driveway, Conked out for another hour – got up, got insulated – went out, couldn’t get the Snow-blower to work – I think something froze in the gas line. – and began digging. The six inch ridge was more like eight inches of hard packed, heavy snow. I had to chop the stuff with vertical down thrusts of shovel before I could move any of it. I also had to go inside a couple times to thaw out and chugalug caffeine to warm my innards.

— Cathi got up and joined me with shovel in hand and we dug until she went back inside and called in, told the answering machine that we were stuck and she couldn’t make it in that morning, and had a dentist’s appointment at 2 pm, so ‘See you on Wednesday-‘

— We kept chugging away with shovels until she gave up and went back inside and gave herself something to eat and chugged a cup of coffee herself.

— I kept at it until I had cleared everything in front of the van ( which we had left pointed toward the street ) and cleared the exhaust pipe ( “Important!” A couple stranded motorists died of carbon monoxide poisoning a little bit north of here in the past month. ) I  did manage to start the engine, clean the windshield and scrape the hard packed stuff from the sides and the little bit that had settled on the roof since the wind had died down a bit last night – and moved the van – left an impression of van in the huge drift that had formed around it.

– Here’s the impression – the van left when I moved it. –

— I thought the impression was ‘Impressive’.

– I thought this was one of the most impressive sights I saw last night. This is where Cathi was working, digging out our access to the steel shed so we could get at the snow-blower – She added a couple feet of shoveled snow on top of the – best guess? four and a half feet – of drift – Wow? –

— Arggghh – I told myself I would write something about love since the CBC morning program “The Current” had asked their listeners for their thoughts on the subject – But right now I’m hurtin a little too much to think about that – maybe- If I can chill in the other room and mess with the laptop leaning back in the the lounge chair – sigh — { Ache Ache – }

— Happy Valentines Day??? Cathi told me that Reese’s Pieces were not considered romantic enough and got me a bag of those from the Early pre-Easter display, 🙂

—> -20˚C / -5˚F & ‘Clear’ @ 11:54 pm in Atlantic Canada —

~~~~~ Jim