Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

April 2, 2008

Okay, I wasn't going to complain about garbage but really...
It was 13C out!
You know you threw that particular box away, after you bought the Shark vacuum cleaner (as well as that Delissio pizza and those eggs). Just because the garbage guys didn't pick them up for whatever reason, doesn't mean you can look the other way every time you pass by them, lying by the side of the road. It was your garbage the first time and until it's gone for good, I think it's still your garbage. So please pick it up and try to throw it away again. Thank you.
It was 13C out!
Also, now that they've banned smoking on OC Transpo premises, we get this yuk factor. Butt buckets anyone?
It was 13C out!
Okay, back to the no complaining, especially as it was ultra beautiful yesterday. We've gone back into the deep freeze today, especially with the wind chill, but yesterday it was plus 13C and sunny and a joy to be out. Oddly, the construction site was empty, devoid of human life.
It was 13C out!
This sidewalk is covered in the kind of sticky mud that clings to your shoes and then builds, mud upon mud. Best to use the one on the other side of the road for now.
It was 13C out!
There's not even a pretense that people want to keep skating. Winter is over and we want spring!
It was 13C out!
I wonder if the bark on this bush has been stripped by hungry rabbits? I'd have to examine it more closely to be sure. But why only this one and not the ones beside it, I wonder?
It was 13C out!
It had rained all morning but when the sun came out later, it was a nice contrast to the lingering dark clouds. They were being pushed out of the way in a hurry by the stiff winds.
It was 13C out!
I noticed the usual lake of melt water in the middle of this part of the bike path. I think I'll have to avoid walking there for a while.
It was 13C out!
And they shoved so much snow out of the way, so many times, that they broke this fence at the transit station. One of the many casualties of winter.

Saturday, March 8, 2008

March 8, 2008

Yesterday in between snow storms (insert humourless laugh here), I noticed that there was now what appears to be framing above the foundations on the Minto building across from Marshy's.
construction progress
I wonder if it is framing because the buildings are three or more storeys high but time will tell. I don't have the blueprints.
piles of snow
I also noticed that the snow is kind of piled high at the side of the plaza. Last night we got another foot (not an accurate measurement - I just looked out the door) and we're getting more now. Peter took a few pix this morning. Zoom has decided she doesn't hate Winter any more. I know that no matter what, Spring will come along and soon. But the bother of boots and the weight of coats and the struggling through snow is beginning to pall.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

March 6, 2008

The Citizen had a "winter by the numbers" story today. Part of what it said:

First snowfall: Nov. 20
Number of days since first snow: 108
Number of days with snow: 83
Number of days without snow: 25
Average March snowfall: 39.8 centimetres
March snowfall to date: 47 centimetres
Latest and heaviest snowfall: May 10, 1963, 15 cm


From CBC I get the following stats:

"With 357 centimetres of snow already this winter and more to come on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Ottawa seems on track to top the record 444.1 centimetres that fell in the winter of 1970-71."

[357 cm = 140 inches = 11.7 feet 444.1 cm = 174.8 inches = 14.5 feet]

But you know, it IS melting when the sun is out and the sun IS getting stronger and it really can't last forever. Really.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

March 2, 2008

I saw two Cardinals last weekend but this morning, I got a photo, as he was calling his territory from the top of a tree.
An early harbinger of Spring

Friday, January 11, 2008

January 11, 2008

This blog tends to be more about the weather than anything else, but weather is a big thing up here, I guess.
That wind we had two days ago really was fierce and blew parts of houses off and trees down. We didn't have any damage here in the hood thank goodness. And now Winter is back, even if it's not that cold. We had had a little snow over night and then freezing rain in the morning, followed by plain rain. It's above freezing now so we won't have the horrible results of the Ice Storm of 1998 following up today.
On my way home, I saw several bunny tracks but couldn't find a clear enough imprint for a photo. Then, right in front of my own garage door, I found this set in a track that went all around the house and into the back yard.
bunny tracks
You can tell by the toenails that this bunny was hopping from right to left. His front feet are in the "back" - they are the pair set close together. He plants his front feet and then swings the hind feet forward and that's why the hind feet prints (they are wider apart) are in front of the front feet.