It’s been snowing here in Toronto since last night. Steadily!
We’ve had everything from snow flurries to freezing rain to ice pellets. It’s only snowing at the moment, but it’s going to keep laying down the fluffy stuff until sometime tomorrow. (Actually it looks like it’s going to snow on and off until Tuesday!)
I shoveled last night when the snow on the ground was light, and a few times today when it was heavy and wet. Now my back is aching. Plus, with that slippery layer of ice underneath the snow in some areas you just about need to have safety equipment on while you’re shoveling! LOL Ok, it wasn’t that bad, but still … enough already!
I was saving the end of the driveway for when my husband came home from work. With my back already aching that heavy slushy snow that the snow plows leave at the end of the driveway was just too much for my back to handle.
Our new neighbors weren’t out there shoveling the driveway at all either. That ticked me off a bit since they now own half the driveway. However they managed to redeem themselves by early evening. You see the new neighbor has a snow plow business (pickup trucks with shovels on the front) and he brought one of his trucks over to clear out a parking space for his car in front of their house … which of course meant that he also scooped up that big heavy ridge of slushy snow at the end of the driveway.
So that took away the worst shoveling job and Chris had much less snow to remove when he got home from work. It only took him about ten minutes and since he wasn’t all that tired from shoveling we both took the dog on a long walk through the snow streets. Now that made us all tired!
I just hope that the snow that’s falling now and into tomorrow is the light fluffy kind. I don’t mind shoveling that – even if the shoveling does get to my back, I can still usually get the job done before my back is really bad.
Is it snowing in your area too? How are you coping with all the shoveling? No … don’t tell me you have a snow blower or that you live in a warm climate! Arghhh!
It’s in the upper 70’s in my area. I want to see snow, though!
I am sooooo done with snow.
Surprisingly, though, I don’t mind shoveling it.
Kathy – I’ll trade you for a few days if you’d like. LOL
BTW you had blogger.com in your url so it wouldn’t work I correct it by putting in blogspot.com.
Teena – I don’t mind shoveling snow either … well I didn’t before my back started to ache every time I do anything like shoveling, sweeping or even taking a walk down the street. (must be that pesky vitamin D deficiency I’ve got, I think I’ve had it for a long time = weak bones (testing in two weeks)).
Hey I got your requests for the Toronto and Canadian Blogrolls but I can’t do anything yet. Blogrolling has been having trouble for months (like since August or so) and I can’t add new urls or make changes to existing urls. I’ll fix things when I’m able to though.
I’d wish for no more snow but that’d be a pipe dream. Looks like we’re going to get snow well into next week! What happened to our low snow winters?
We’ve been getting what you have-being SE of you in NY.
It’s snowing pretty hard now 🙁
We haven’t had any snow this winter. I don’t have a problem with that. i moved to Arkansas from Colorado to escape the snow.
An Arkie’s Musings
Here in France it a pleasure to have snow – It is rare 😉
We had the most snow on record ever in Wisconsin in december, then it rained for 3 days. Very strange weather…
It snowed about 2 inches here in last couple of days, but we have a lot more coming up tonight and in next couple of days. I’m glad we got a snowblower for x-mas ;o)
Stay warm!
Hi Tricia,
Wasn’t a great day to take the dog for a long walk. Lucy and I really enjoyed it. The white blanket takes a lot of the uglies away and makes Toronto look like it belongs in Canada.
The snow is coming our way next, here in the Roxiticus Valley, NJ. We had an ice storm Sunday night into Monday, and this weekend promises more of the same, plus 5 to 8 inches of snow.
We hit the grocery store this evening and packed in some provisions, so we’re ready to be snowed in, and my girls would love to get out on sleds and build a snowman. In a way, I’m just as happy to have our plans postponed until next weekend. I don’t really like the snow, but I’ve sort of come to accept that it’s on its way.
Roxy
Here in Austria it had until recently only in some areas snow, but now it is snowing with us :-). I’m so happy about it
Janet
It’s interesting to see a blog post about wishing snow would stop. It’s summer here in New Zealand and it doesn’t snow down to ground level. I wish that your snow would come to me during winter!