I've lost track of how many days I've been off, so that's a good thing.
So I'm really excited that it is warming up today. I'll be taking Hugo for a walk at some point.
Looking outside I see that we had a little bit of snow and I now feel an odd bond with our old neighbours. And when I say old, I don't mean the ones that have been here since we moved in 10 years ago...I mean the 'blue hairs', 'raisins'...I mean 'seniors'.
Our neighbourhood has a fair bit of old folks in it. We are in the south end near the new development. Every year I watch as those retired folk remove every last snowflake from their driveways and sidewalks. I've often thought, wouldn't it be nice to have that kind of time? Well here we are...I have the strongest compulsion to get out there and remove the 1cm of snow and make my walkways prestine. What does that mean? Am I 40 going on 72?
I know that I still have one foot in a younger reality as I don't want to have an annual 3 day garage sale like my older counterparts...it would take more than 7 weeks off to change that.
BTW...banana inventory went down by six yesterday.
If you take it down right to the pavement, make sure you salt it. Sometimes having that thin layer of snow adds a bit of traction that otherwise wouldn't be there! You don't want to be responsible for breaking one of those raisin's hips? ;-)
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