Monday Morning!

Monday morning: garbage day. They predicted -19 ℃ overnight. (It's the things that don't quite kill ya...!) I was thinking I could put it out the night before as the critters won't smell it, it'll be frozen. Too late. I was in my jammies. 

I ended up driving it out in the car, despite it only being -12 ℃. It is snowing, too!

Anyway, I had a great haircut. There wasn't too much traffic on a Sunday morn. My stylist is a sweetie. Thing is, stylists like to cut hair. The thing is that I don't like my hair feathered. It's easier to put a curling iron in it. Here is the before and after. 

Hard to tell which is which, but it's really cleaned up at the back. My last professional haircut was in the summer. My bangs get long and I got to it. 

I built Joseph a fire down in the basement, and he was cozy. Joe was up to his eye balls in football games. He's been running around doing groceries, which is good to keep the car going. We a headlight out, front left. I just thought of it. Non-mental note!

Sunday we decided to bring in pizza. We're too far out for deliveries. I volunteered. He knows I get stressed just driving into town. He was grateful. Crazy senior drivers. This incident involved entitled young people.

Something that bothers me is people laughing at me. They sat in the car and laughed. 

Trailcams don't always do well in winter. The cold is hard on batteries. The melt/thaw freezes them, too! I brought this one in to get warmed up and melt. I needed to replace the batteries, and I couldn't open it up. Frozen shut! I sat it on the placemat and it melted. I loathe the rain in winter. 

I am happy with some snow fall. The red fox crossed the highway, and came all the way up the driveway, and around the back of the house. The track is a little smaller than the coyote. 

 

This is a screen capture from my latest red fox video. It came onto the sidewalk. I've not see it in the day in ages. 

This is the exception. It looked like a young one. Dec., 2021, there was a fox trotting along. I grabbed the camera, and it just hunkered down and gave itself a wash up! Cinnamon was nearby, and I captured him gazing off along the wetland as fox took off. 

Biking on a summer day - beware drivers

Here is the latest biking news...

Incident with cyclist humiliates local resident

Posted Aug 9, 2012 By Laurie Weir
EMC News - A Drummond/North Elmsley man says he feels he was humiliated and degraded after an alleged altercation with a cyclist near his home on July 21, as he attempted to pass three large groups of cyclists. The event that took place that day was the 220 km Gran Fondo Ottawa Reggio Capitale - a cyclist's equivalent to a runner's marathon event. It required participants to travel west on the Tennyson Road on their way to Perth.






You have to watch oncoming traffic, since the bikes aren't single file, and cars tend to swerve into our lane, rather than slowing down. The rules of the road are for chumps! Seriously, we all have to drive predictably, drive defensively, and they scare me when they pull out like this.

There were hundreds of people biking: young, old; large, small; men and women. They kept coming and coming! I'm sure there are better ways to ride, though. Single file, maybe?! Just sayin'! 

From Biking in Middleville

Biking on 2 wheels can be tricky on summer roads. Just pick a lane, and not mine!

From Biking in Middleville

I thought June was bike month in Mississippi Mills!

There are bike events in Almonte, Mississippi Mills Bicycle Month, bikers everywhere!

From Biking in Middleville

From Biking in Middleville

Mind you, car drivers are as bad as those riding bikes. This guy seemed to need two lanes in order to turn right from the gravel road onto highway 511. Next, he passed the car in front on the solid line, going up the hill.

We have had to pull onto the gravel three times this summer, as drivers pull around cars on a curve when they cannot see oncoming traffic. In one case, two cars were stopped and a third pulled around into our lane. There were 3 or 4 cars behind us, and we all had to get onto the shoulder.
I was pulling into my driveway, from the south, as a car passed the car behind me, who was slowing to let me do my turn. The third car couldn't see me turning into my driveway, but arrogantly passed the car directly behind me, failing to see my car, or my turn signal. He screeched into the other lane, and onto the shoulder on the other side. He is lucky there were no cars oncoming.

This was just before our big storm, Mon., June 24, with a tricycle on the road! Hope they made it home safely! There must have been three thunderstorms that came across our area. Welcome rain, I'll tell you!