Little Updates

I sit in my chair from whence I can only see sky and roofs. I notice that the roofs are much less snow-covered that they were a few days ago. Oh, they are still mostly covered. What I mean to say is that the covering isn't nearly as thick.

We have had a few days around the freezing mark, and even above. It makes a difference.

One morning, I went out early to get the car washed. It has been busy over there, but I thought that it would be good at 7. So, I had Alexa remind me; otherwise, I would have forgotten.

The carwash was empty when I started through, but cars were lining up behind me before I exited.

Hermione the Honda had filthy for quite awhile, but one resists washing it in super cold weather when locks can freeze. On the other hand, once it gets milder, it gets wetter and slushier, so it gets dirty pretty quickly. That's winter.

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We have Omi on the street — in three households that we know of. Symptoms range from extremely sick, but not hospital sick (knock on wood), to asymptomatic. The sickest hadn't had the booster yet; the one with no symptoms had. That might not be the only reason for the difference, but I am sure that the booster would have helped that poor guy. It's not his fault; he was scheduled, but the rollout was slow to begin around here.

He is our snow angel by the way. Let us hope that we don't get another dumping before he is fit. Kidding: we will manage.

I don't think there's much deep cold in the forecast, and after the cold snap that we expect around Valentine's Day, the fourteen-day forecast doesn't look too perishingly cold. However, most days will remain below freezing — unfortunately. 

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The convoy is still looming large downtown but seems to have settled into a less rowdy state. There is a noise bylaw in place, which helps.

The authorities were totally unprepared for this. We'll see how long the protestors want to stay. They may not be losing income as it appears that American money has been pouring in. While GoFundMe has returned most of the $10 000 000 of donations that came to them, another funding site (I forget the name) has stepped into the breech and is chuffed to dole out the dosh.