WWQP Bulletin Board Chat

A snowy day, finally

It's great to see so many different postings from all over. Like Sandi & Grace, we are in the midst of a storm which has come up to us from the US Midwest (Texas & Oaklahoma). Although the amounts of snow so far have not met the expectations of the media, who have been talking about this storm for some days now, it will drop a fair amount of snow before it's over tonight. Schools are all closed in the Toronto area and ours, an hour north, as well. The birds are flocking to my birdfeeding station just outside the studio windows and believe it or not, the little wild canaries (goldfinches) are beginning to show some yellow feathering ....the winter drab khaki colour is being replaced with their spring/summer colours. Nature knows that spring is coming even though we are in the midst of freezing conditions & blowing snow. It's nice to be inside looking out, although I will miss snowshoeing today. I've been plagued with a sinus infection which seems to be going around...off and on for the past month, thinking I was fighting it, last week-end it took hold with a vengeance, hopefully to move on with the help of antibiotics. A lot of people have the same symptoms and it's not the flu, which is a relief.

Sara, Florida is a very big state, long, I guess rather than wide. I always remember driving there and when we entered the state of Florida, I was surprised to find it took so long to drive south still to Sarasota.

Sandi, congratulations on the new granddaughter, such excitement in your family. Grace, it's no wonder you're aprehensive getting yourself out and down into Ottawa for your knee operation with this storm. It's great not living in a big city but when it comes to things like that, we have to go to big cities and the stress of that is enough aside from the fact we're there for something we wish we weren't. Good luck tomorrow. And good grief, is that a cat or a dog...look at the size of him, my goodness.

Last week-end, with B&B guests here, seven deer came in close to the house. Our guests, city-folk, were enchanted. So was I. One stood so close to the house for some minutes and Hope, the Australian Shepherd, had a low growl in the back of her throat looking at it. And, our well-pump quit last week, just as other B&B guests were ready for their showers. They were good sports about it but the cost of replacing a 15 yr. old pump was pretty sobering. In addition, all wells here are not to the new codes the Dept. of Environment has set and because we are a B&B we will be approached first, before homeowners....(all because of a terrible situation in Walkerton, a small town n/w of here where some laxadazical employee did not put the proper disinfectants in the town's water system and many people became ill, some died). Our well water has always tested out just fine. The next work on the well will happen in May, another $2,000.00. Living in the country is great when everything works as it should.

Rosey

posted by RoseyP @ 10:11 AM