Preparing for Winter
For many of us this is an even busier period than summer – getting ready for winter is a lot of work when you live like we do. In the city we didn’t have this “problem” – the thermostat provided heat all winter, the driveway was easy to shovel and the property needed no prepping.
With the snow getting lower and lower on Golden Horn, I’m starting to get a bit manic, as The List is still much too long. No, I really don’t have time to be sitting here blogging, but… 🙂 Anyway, this is the view from the back of the house today.
I got the roof ladder finished today, so now I’ll be able to get up to clean the chimney and clean any wet snow off the satellite dish without breaking my neck. The firewood stock isn’t large enough but I have a few weeks to cut yet.
I picked up the snowblower today, so once I get all the small assembling done on it (cables and such), a huge winter job becomes much smaller. I discovered that the winch on my truck plow is broken – Canadian Tire (where I bought it) wasn’t the least bit interested in ordering me a new one, so I have to call the folks at SnowBear directly soon.
One of the other “jobs” we’re into is planning a getaway to someplace warm for a couple of weeks. High on that list is a cruise (of course 🙂 ), either through the Panama Canal or to the eastern Mediterranean. That job nicely balances out some of the other ones!
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