{"id":149,"date":"2018-03-16T23:27:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T02:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aerendel.ca\/perspective\/?p=149"},"modified":"2018-03-16T23:27:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T02:27:13","slug":"ice-chunks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aerendel.ca\/perspective\/2018\/03\/16\/ice-chunks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Chunks –"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, March 16th, 2018\u00a0 —> -2\u02daC \/ +29\u02daF with very light snow falling @ 6:39 pm in Atlantic Canada —<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Ice

– Let’s see- This monster is like two and a half to three feet long and a foot high – Solid Ice – and weighs about 80 to 100 pounds. –<\/p><\/div>\n

— Ugh! Good thing Cathi was already scheduled to work from home today. If she tried to drive over the above chunk of ice, which was blocking our driveway where she usually turns to stay in her proper lane on her way out of here. It would either have stopped her dead in her tracks or sliced through any vital cables and\/or gas lines, brake lines — thinks like that.<\/p>\n

— While I was digging this thing out or the end of the driveway I was thinking it might be poetic justice to launch that sonofagun at the windshield of anybody driving a snowplow on this street. —> Luckily, I’m a writer and I can imagine that as a plot angle in a story and not believe I owed the ‘birty dastard’ who pushed that thing into our driveway the scare of his life.<\/p>\n

— & by the way, in this photo the ice chunk is posing atop a three and a half foot high mound of packed cleared snow at the edge of our driveway.<\/p>\n

\"Snow

– I thought yesterday’s snow chunks were bad. –<\/p><\/div>\n

— If somebody hit you in the head with one of the above ‘boulders’ of tightly packed snow, it might make you angry. If you head was ‘thick’ enough the chunk of snow would break.<\/p>\n

— Today’s monster Ice Chunk could probably kill a healthy adult male human being.<\/p>\n

\"Paw

– On the lighter side, Cathi thinks these paw prints belong to a very small cat. –<\/p><\/div>\n

— It felt like a waste of space to center that above this.<\/p>\n

— Now, it might just be a bit of ugly formatting on my part.<\/p>\n

— But, yeah, Cathi thinks those are a very small cat’s paw prints. She worries about a cat that size being outside in weather like we’ve been having lately. – Worries more that it might be homeless and shivering in the dark somewhere.<\/p>\n

= = = = =<\/p>\n

— But, on then other PAW –<\/p>\n

\"TaleRocker

– TaleRocker’s latest look, since Doug gave him a pair of glasses. –<\/p><\/div>\n

— We gave TaleRocker a new ‘Gravatar’<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

~~~~~ Jim<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday, March 16th, 2018\u00a0 —> -2\u02daC \/ +29\u02daF with very light snow falling @ 6:39 pm in Atlantic Canada — — Ugh! Good thing Cathi was already scheduled to work from home today. If she tried to drive over the above chunk of ice, which was blocking our driveway where\u2026<\/p>\n

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