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So much snow to deal with, and a lot of work to go along with it. Thankfully I was only away for a weeks worth of time (roughly speaking) so I’m not entirely buried under work like we are all this snow. But don’t forget about the cold! Oh yeah , while we were acclimating to sunny weather in the low thirties, we came home to freezing temperatures close to minus twenty, that’s fifty degrees of change. Too much! That is too large a temperature variance for the human body to enjoy. One day I’m slathered in sun screen trying not to dehydrate, the next I just can’t stay warm enough to shovel sixteen plus inches of snow off my front walkway. It’s nuts.

So we will either get more snow next week as we get closer to March, and the first day of spring, or it will begin to rain, and flood the streets like crazy, then freeze each night locking us in deep-deep inches of ice. Canadian weather is not for the weak of heart. All that shoveling, and ice picking will do you in if you aren’t in half way decent shape. It’s my nightmare.

Made it to Friday morning. Even with all of our flight troubles, the delays, the push backs, the missing grounds crew, the medical emergency call, the turbulence, the extremely late landing time, we made it home safe and sound, with our plane right side up, and not engulfed in flames. I’m not a nervous flyer but this weeks deluge of fires, crashes, and flips, and major turbulence episodes made me stop & think once or twice about stepping onto an airplane ever again.

I don’t know if it’s knock on effects from Covid brain damages, or under staffing, or a lax maintenance schedule but these planes be dropping in numbers recently, and the old adage of air travel being safer than cars is starting to look, and feel, out dated. Could be that with phones we are just seeing more of the whoopsie daisies on social media, but I have seen a lot these last couple days. Like a lot, a lot. You know what I mean? Could just be people capitalizing on the algorithms by posting old plane fires, crashes, bird strikes, and open doors mid flight to make money off of it all. I don’t know. I’m just seeing a lot of it on my feeds lately. Fun times. Doom scrolling indeed.

But now we are back on Terra Firma with a few projects to complete, and various social things to do this weekend. Rock climbing, belt testing, three birthdays at one bash! And whatever else happens on Sunday.

Oh yeah , I saw the Canada vs USA hockey game last night. The Four Nations finals with the NHL. It was a doozey! We won, with an overtime goal by Connor McDavid #97 himself. It was an epic way to counter their loss to the US a game or two ago. BAM! How do you like them apples, Boston!

Snow, so much damn snow it feels claustrophobic. Piles up past my hips. Chest high banks lining the streets. Fifteen footers in the parking lots, and behind my kids school. It’s everywhere with more on the way. Yuck.

Got home just after five am with little to no traffic on the road out of the airport, big props to my brother in law for grabbing us at such an ungodly hour. Delays upon delays pushed us well back into the wee morning hours. Then the oldest smoke detector we have chose last night to have a meltdown. Lovely. I woke up around 7:30am in a panic for some reason. Oh I don’t know, lots of plane crashes lately, and a roof top landing the day before we were set to leave.

It’s cold as all balls here, and yesterday we were fighting off sun burns in 85°F weather off the coast of Key Largo in some modest waves. Made me feel rather ill. But that’s ocean side baby! We got some fishing in, along with visiting smaller keys, and drinking. Had a manatee encounter which was most excellent. Saw three dolphins in the bay, and then saw two more much smaller manatees in the canals. Yay!

I’m exhausted, and I still have alot of work to do. The kids were a mess in the airport last night/this morning so no school for them today. I have had some time to shovel the back patio, and widen our front walk path, and clear around the garage & car. Still have loads to do on that front also. I pray we get no more snow for a few weeks atleast. My back & shoulders need a reprieve from this most recent dumping.

Pretty sure it is Wednesday right now, but I might have lost a day somewhere in transit. Pretty turbulent flight last night too, though not the worst one I’ve experienced. Thankfully. Anywho, back to work after I finish my lunch.

Flight delayed nearly three hours, no gate grounds crew when we land, somebody called medical so we can not deplane until further notice. It is now ten to four am. This is fucked. Exhausted.

Nuf said.

No worries about a drought when I’m around, I can bring the rains out of the wood work if there’s a chance it could ruin my plans whilst on vacation. Ha. Atleast I’m doing my part to keep the grass green, and the water cisterns partially filled. Party on Wayne, party on Garth.

Nothing quite like waking up knowing I have eight or more inches of snow removal waiting on me. Can’t say I’m too pleased about that. I don’t have a heated driveway, nor a flame thrower so back breaking labour it is then! Fun times.

It was on time, it was delayed, it was back on time, the engines wouldn’t start, it was an hour and forty minutes late departing. Oh my. Picked up just before 2:00am, and we got in around three. Yikes.  I’m very tired right now.

Gotta make a late night airport run, so today my main plan is to take things easy, and perhaps grab a nap at some point. Can’t be out & about on the highways after dark while sleepy and tired. Let us pray for no more snow, and no flight delays. Fingers crossed.

Looks like a full foot of snow out there, and there’s not a thing that I can do about it. Thankfully the neighbour has hos snowblower fueled and at the ready because that much snow removal gives me heart palpitations. The last time we had that much snow my heart began to race uncontrollably,  and didn’t stop for about 90 minutes after I can in, undressed, and sat on the couch sipping Gatorade. It was a very sweaty ordeal. It’s times like this where I want to have a snowblower, but it’s not a regular enough occurrence to warrant spending around $2K for a new one. Decisions decisions.