






I brought her home and told JB that she'd gained less weight than I'd thought, only about a half pound over the past year, despite stealing the rich kitten food. She's 12.6 lbs. She is more playful, and more active. See how the rain clung to the top and sides of the feeders. The pebbly ice pellets were OK to walk on. This morning it is covered in snow, though.









As I watched the HydroOne website, the power outages increased over the day as people woke up and reported them. They peaked at 30,663, then they slowly got people back up onto the grid. Today, they were down to 5270.

I took a walk on Monday afternoon. The poor white pines are touching the ground with the ice accretion.




Overnight, it was colder and snowed all over the ice. It's melting off some of the warmer trees, as if it was still raining. I'm afraid to look, almost. We've lost so many great branches from these trees with years of ice storms.






