Winter finally arrived with a vengeance in mid-February, with one good wallop of snow in the wee hours. It's hard to say how much we got, given the variable drifting - in some places we still had bare grass, and other spots had a 3-foot drift when we woke up one day. Both cars were trapped.
Luckily we have very nice neighbours, who came down with their tractor and got the main part of the driveway cleared. Also luckily, ahem....the persistent COVID pandemic meant we weren't going anywhere anyway, so I had lots of time to shovel out the rest.
Nearly a full year into COVID, a third vaccine was just approved and hopefully efforts to get shots in arms will ramp up significantly. Canada hopes to have everyone vaccinated by the fall, and here's hoping they remain effective against new variants that continue to emerge.
Jane continues to experiment with food, recently making a variety of delicious sushi treats. Besides binging on Netflix, we are also watching an obscene amount of travel videos, primarily Youtube vloggers The Endless Adventure, and the Travel Beans. We can't travel at the moment, but we can dream...and plan. And I found some old nostalgic C64 video games updated on Steam!
We did have to break the van out of the garage - quite literally - when the Juke died with alternator issues. Jane had a scheduled curbside grocery pickup, so after shoveling the door free we then had to chip away frozen ground to allow the swollen barn doors to open....we've never opened them in the winter before!
The weather has turned decidedly spring-like as February wanes, with sunshine and double digit temperatures the past few days.....which means these crazy cats can start spending more time outside!
Breaking out Bard's Tale I on Steam
A little old school diversion!
Mid-February....
One good blast of winter
The harbour is still iced over....
....but the lake is open!
Don't order pop from Amazon....in winter
Bulgogi
Spring rolls
Sushi
The new hotel in town takes shape!
....and late February!
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