❄️ A Sunday storm ☃️

❄️ SUNDAY☃️  First, there was 9mm of rain, then it began to get colder. Ice accretion was the difficulty Monday. It is now buried under several cm of snow. And it kept snowing.

Our power flickered off and then on. There was a small outage, quickly fixed.

The icicles on the feeders looked pretty. The tree branches, not so much.

Then the snow began... They just kept drooping more and more.

❄️ Monday morning ☃️ 

We had some snow. It weighed down the branches, sticking to the ice coated branches. I do have my spiffy red boots with cleats, but the ground was warmer than the trees and it was just sludge. 

First I shoveled the sidewalk. It wasn't slippery, but the snow stuck to slush and it was heavy. Next, using the snowblower on the driveway to clear a path to haul out the garbage all was good. Next, I put out garbage. It was coffee and breakfast and I tackled the rest of the driveway.

The oak trees still have leaves, and they are weighed down with ice and sticky snow.

All the bushes lean heavily.

And those beautiful white pines... Cross your fingers for us. We spent several thousand dollars having them cleaned up with breakage from last December's storm. Then another ice storm happened in April – three days after that mess was cleaned up. I worked on it cleaning it up myself, from December to about February, when I gave up and we called in the professionals. There were broken branches high up.

The bird bath is hanging in, icicles dripping and frozen.

Joseph Brian went out for a walk. It was getting worse. 

There he is in the back 40, doing his morning walk. He took photos for me.

It snowed all day. It's 6 a.m., and I can't see any more damage in the dark. I'd love a sunny day. We need to burn off the snow and ice. 

After the storm: Happy New Year!

I hope 2020 brings you many blessings; 

good health, joy, peace, prosperity. 

I am grateful for my e-friends,

and their moral support! 

Let's see what 2020 brings us all.

Monday morning, Dec. 30th

If you've ever wondered what it is like taking a cat to the vet. This is the video for you! She was quite vocal. On slushy roads, she was a hoot.

Tuesday, Dec. 31st

Dec. 31st, more power outages as the snow continued all day, second day in a row. The numbers crept up all day as snow kept falling on top of the ice. Our hydro was fine, but I kept a fire going just in case.

The poor trees! Their branches were touching the ground. Great shelter for Jake, though. Can you see him?



Tuesday afternoon, I went out and shook the snow off. I was warm with Jean's lovely muff, except where the snow fell on my head. My coat was drenched, but the trees look much better. I have to clean them off, as it'll freeze and the branches will freeze in the snow. I learned that lesson one year.

On my way in for deer food, Tuesday, this dippy family stopped in the middle of Gore St. (a main street of Perth)! I was watching for the truck to pull around them, as people often do. Watching the truck behind them, then the teenager rushed across the road in front of me. No coat, no boots.



Our driveway is 100 m long. We were slowly getting rid of the ice from last week. We're back to ice pellets topped by snow. It's still snowing today, Wednesday.
Winter, bring it on!

My observation totals for the end of the year:
⛈DECEMBER 2019⛄
❄️WEATHER DATA☔
🚓ONTARIO ROADS 2019 🚗
🚓LOCAL COLLISIONS

It's been an interesting few days!

I'd spent the afternoon with my client.

As we sat talking, I told her self-deprecating stories and made her laugh! It's difficult as your friends pass away, your siblings, as well are either sick, or gone. Her loving family just warms my heart. Yesterday would have been my late mother's birthday. My client is one year older. I get as much as I give.

She is sharp. She always asks what I plan for dinner. We had leftover ham from Easter, I told her.

As a homemaker, she always had big meals to prepare, with home made bread, and donuts that her kids loved. She had 7 kids and told me she was tired of spending so much time just watching food cook! She is so funny! But she is right!

Because my visits are sometimes emotionally draining, we'll often bring in Asian Fusion meals from our take-out place, as hubby also volunteers Tuesday mornings. I like cooking, though. The chopping, dicing, fresh smells, usually sipping wine, listening to the rush hour traffic reports with glee! (My last Ottawa teaching job required me to drive 5 km and go through 15 traffic lights to work! Some days it took a half hour! )

As we chatted, it came to me: I had a butter chicken recipe I'd adapted for hubby (who cannot have dairy, yeast or eggs) and I could integrate the ham into it. I had to substitute butter for olive oil, and coconut milk for cream.

Quick Butter Chicken from Marilyn Denis became Quick Ham Curry with linguine! The leftovers were great, too. Whew. Another successful meal.

My orchid cactus is doing so well, despite Hooper trying to eat it.

In the meantime, the other day JB spotted a vulture sitting on the top of the building they are deconstructing. You can read about the Darou Farmhouse here.

Then, there was our storm of the past two days. We had about an inch of precipitation (24 mm): rain, snow, sleet and hail. Not in that order. I collected and melted it.

There were wild, wild winds! Many had power go out, I collected a few images here. We were good. I kept the fire going. Hooper went out and played in the shed, looking for mice friends. He's a challenge!

By the afternoon, more snow, more wind. 
And more wind... at 6:00 p.m. 83,600 without power.

You could see the lightning, at Lightning Maps, which was incredible.

It was a mess from the US to Quebec, and it is headed further east.

 
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