A winter visit
The winter! the brightness that blinds you, The white land locked tight as a drum, The cold fear that follows and finds you, The silence... Read more
Tag: ice
Emergency preparedness brochure – nice timing!
How timely that we received an Emergency Preparedness brochure in our mailbox today! Why timely? Well this morning there were two big earthquakes in the... Read more
The thaw is on
The thaw is on! Streets are melting, mud and puddles are reappearing, and with all the metal roofs in town, the snow is crashing off... Read more
Our new ice making hobby
I love ice. Not just winter ice, but ice in my drinks. Cold water just isn’t cold enough! In Nova Scotia, we bought a fridge... Read more
Yukon River is getting slushy!
Jeff has a horrible awful cold, so I wandered to the grocery store again on this Sunday morning to get him cough medicine. This is... Read more
Easter Sunday drive
It was unexpectedly sunny today, so we went for a drive. We headed down to Aspen, then took the back highway to New Glasgow, through... Read more
My indoor garden is growing!
I’ve been slowly upgrading my indoor garden from the little peat pods I started the seedlings in last month, to their own pots. I was... Read more
SNOW! About time it stopped raining….
It was warm enough yesterday to pour rain for hours. But since everything was already covered in ice, it just made a bigger mess of... Read more
They do blizzards wrong here in Nova Scotia
Yesterday was a cold day that started calm and clear, with a big bright moon. The snow moved in later in the afternoon, the fine... Read more
Today started at 4:50am…
There I was, sitting in my massive travel trailer, getting ready for a nap, hoping my company would leave so I could see if the... Read more