Snomageddon Jan. 15

 What a January! Then the snow began Wednesday night. It snowed all day. We did the driveway twice, the sidewalk three times.

There was 11 cm on the driveway by 11:00 a.m. We ended up with 24.5 cm.

By the time I went back up the driveway and down again, this is what it looked like. I went out and did it again. You couldn't see the road.

Compare that to Monday morning, when I put garbage out.

We spent Thursday digging out. 

Friday morning:

It really is pretty. We don't have the problems many have in the city: where to put the durn stuff. We watched the weather, and prepared. I made a big casserole, while has lasted 3 days.

We cleaned the bird feeders several times!

The back deck! 

Happily the sun rose. 

The deer waited for someone else to rise!

If we have to we can get out!

It's so much nicer with the sun out!

Poor Muskoka: snomageddon

UPDATE: Many are without power since Thursday night, this is now Sunday. Some aren't expected to be back on grid until Dec. 3rd.

 Muskoka, in Central Ontario, east of Georgian Bay, has had a dump of snow and power outages. The friends I left behind there are digging out. This missed us, somehow. I woke at midnight and checked. Nada.

Then, there are the power outages!

This was in Dec., 2009 in Bala, Muskoka!

Lake Effect Snow, it just keeps rolling over cottage country, picking up moisture from the warm Great Lakes.

This is a metre/yardstick! It was epic, and we called it Snomageddon, 2009. It was the year before we moved here to Lanark County.

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Dec. 2007

Back to the present. My friends, Erica and Jennifer, tells me they had a foot of snow Friday, two more feet overnight, as well as a power outage. Small town Bala, with 2649 without power. Many have generators, as this is a common happening. They had a snow day, with everything cancelled or closed. 

As I watched the hydro outages, they kept increasing!

This morning, it was even worse. When we lived in Muskoka we had a seamless generator. It was fabulous. It didn't run everything, but you choose certain things, like appliances. Many people have a fireplace or stove, as well. The numbers just keep rising. 

  

Bracebridge, Gravenhurst, etc., get power from Elexicon Energy. 

My friends in Muskoka are still without power Sunday morning. Winter is here!

Highway 11 was closed. Vehicles just plain stuck!

The OPP posted these photos from Nov. 30th, 2024! 

Here? Nothing! Jut a few flakes. 

⛄Snomageddon 2022 Part 2

 What a treat to see the sun! South Ontario continues to clean out all that snow. The girls were going to go to school, but their side street wasn't plowed out at the time. SNOW DAY! 

Of course, I jinxed it. Today, Wednesday, we've another snowstorm. 

I finished off the driveway, there was a lot of drifting after my hard work the day before. Then, there are the snowplows. Happy to see them, but they do mess up the end of the driveway. I'm sore in places that haven't been used on the treadmill!

Back indoors, I changed into dry pants, and accidentally locked Cinnamon in my closet. I couldn't find him anywhere! I looked upstairs, downstair, in the cold storage, and lastly, my closet. Usually, Nutmeg does that. He snuck in behind me, I think during my second clothing change. We're going with that! It was hours. He knocked a few thing off my closet shelves, poor big guy.

I was happy to stay indoors after all this. As I gazed out at the feeders, I spotted a robin at the birdbath! They will overwinter, from time-to-time, and one year we had 13 on the meadow trailcam. They'll eat sumac berries, and should be OK. It looks chubby enough!

Robin drinking:

I set up the zoom to try and get some better photos. Hooray Mr. Sun!

The goldfinches

Mourning dove

We had 5 house finches, which I was happy to see. I think one male, 4 females.

They love a nice drink of water.

Bird fail! It would have been a nice photo. It makes me giggle.

The goldfinches

winter goldfinches from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

The mourning doves in sun: