Well good people of the world, it would seem that mother nature was not yet ready to concede her grasp on the Covid circuit breaker known as online elearning. So after yesterday’s massive 21.6 inches of snow fall in some portions of southern ontario the grounds keepers weren’t able to keep up with snow removal and their usual cleaning duties, thus we are gifted one additional learn from home day. Which is… yeah, fine by me. Did a little bit of driving late yesterday, and I’m good with this decision. Seems that two years of working from home has left many Canadians lacking in the common sense required to drive in almost two feet of snow. So the break is welcome.
As a side note, somewhat related to it being a snow day. I really shit the bed by not picking up a snow blower in the off season. I grabbed a couple other tools for the house we needed, and balked at having to pick up a heavy awkward snow blower. Now that my back and shoulders are singing with strain and rage, I regret that decision by summer time/ fall me. What a dope! This is Canada, snow is a thing here. Mind you I don’t recall ever getting close to two feet in one twenty four hour period, but whatever. Eight to ten inches used to be the big drop we all dreaded but knew was coming. This was a personal record for amount shoveled in a day. Thank the gods my neighbour was out after the plow came by the second time as they deposited a four foot tall wall of snow at the end of my driveway after I had just finished the rest of my walk ways and deck. He made short work of what would have taken me another ninety minutes of aggravation.
