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12 comments
November 27, 2014 at 11:49 pm
myatheistlife
It can’t be that bad. You used the word ‘accumulating’ rather than the more traditional ‘… still fucking falling from the sky and piling up in my god damned drive!’
You know it’s bad when you would consider paying $1/lb if someone would come snowblow your drive for you.
Step 1) Accumulate lots of snow
Step 2) load it into train cars headed to drought stricken areas
Step 3) ?
Step 4) Get rich!
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November 28, 2014 at 3:31 am
Notes To Ponder
Never fear – battling nature’s sick jokes makes Canadians interesting.
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November 28, 2014 at 6:16 am
Deb
It makes for a lovely evening picture with the twinkling lights though…
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November 28, 2014 at 3:35 pm
The Arbourist
@MAL
It was bad enough that the wife brought out the snow blower and went to town all over that damnable snow. :)
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November 28, 2014 at 3:38 pm
The Arbourist
@NtP
Absolutely. I mean consider the keen sense of schadenfreude I feel when the neighbors smoke pot in their garage rather than shovel their driveway get completely stuck in said driveway. That makes my day on more than a few levels. :)
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November 28, 2014 at 3:39 pm
The Arbourist
@Deb
I mean outside of the back destroying shoveling it was a lovely evening. I sang “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas” to my friend who was helping with the work – for some reason he didn’t appreciate it very much. :)
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November 29, 2014 at 12:15 am
bleatmop
This aweful storm has finally hit sunny southern AB today :( 15 cm in the past 3 hours and counting.
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November 29, 2014 at 3:41 am
Notes To Ponder
Laughed out loud when I read your comment – spot on and frankly (for whatever reason – no apology) I took comfort in your observation. Go figure.Canadians deal with winter in several distinct camps. I think of my immediate family – 2 sisters, 2 brothers. One of each occupy the stoic middle ground – shovel their driveways etc. One sister wouldn’t touch a shovel if her life depended on it – pays “a man” to take care of winter for her. The last brother operates 2 massive trap lines – winter is when he snow shoes into the back country, battles wolverine, cougar (this is the brother who finally stopped Jehovah Witnesses from interrupting his Saturday mornings by answering the door with a knife in one hand and half skinned Marmot in the other. They asked sheepishly what he was doing, “skinning my cat” he answered, problem solved, ) Gotta love winter :) PS – it’s snowing in Vancouver right now.
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November 29, 2014 at 8:05 am
The Arbourist
@bleatmop
It is an endurance, not a speed test. :> My friend and I took the snowfall on in three shifts, it worked out pretty not so bad.
My back is only moderately sore, along with the rest me. :)
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November 29, 2014 at 8:14 am
The Arbourist
@NtP
Sadly, I fall into the edge of the snow spectrum. I like seeing the sidewalk and do my best to shovel/scrape/hack my way to bare concrete. My test is if I can walk on said surface with my flop-flops and not die then my walks-cleaning is done.
Our city does a fair job of plowing the main roads, but seem to take their time with the service road in front of my house, so I shovel that as well. I hate people getting stuck in front of my house, their only crime being trying to park and come visit me. I get looks from people as I can only imagine them thinking, “wth?? why is this dude shovelling the road??”. Oh well, we have our little quirks. :)
That is awesome – I’d never even contemplated answering the door with something half skinned. :)
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November 29, 2014 at 12:45 pm
Rob F
You can always come to BC for the winter, even though we just got snow here in Metro Van.
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November 29, 2014 at 12:49 pm
The Arbourist
@Rob F
Isn’t a small bungalow like a million dollars though? :) I’m not sure a couple more months of being bootless is a good trade off.
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