82rude, do you have any idea if the lake ice (inland lakes, not the big water) up there is thicker than last year?
Yes they are ice fishing here in Ontario as far south as Lake Simcoe, Lake Erie is still ice free except a few miles offshore. I saw a Coast Guard vessel the other day, and Swans.
We too had another night of very high winds. Weather buoy south of the Welland Canal in Lake Erie showed peak gusts to 80KPH. We lost power here for 4 hours last night. My wife had to put her makeup on by candle light. When the power did come back on the shallow well water pump sounded like an ice making machine. Got lucky. Every time we get a power outage I remember I should invest in a small genny. They want $60,000.00 for a wind turbine that will get us off the grid. If I was 30 years younger I'd have one, no shortage of wind here 12 months a year. Around 3K to do what a Genny will do for less than 500 Samoleans. (Bugs Bunny currency). I need some fresh air.
I've had what I call 3 pyjama days this week. No reason to get dressed but do change about 15 minutes before my wife gets home from work. It's not my fault she was born later than I and continues to work full time. Actually the plan is for her to retire in June when we sell this place and downsize, not in size but in price. The only time I went outside the last few days was to take the trash out.
edit: Ooops I fibbed. I actually shoveled a path to the driveway the other day, broken back and all. Just took my time. By the time I finished the wind blew more back on the freshly cleared path than it had on it before I shoveled. A perfect example of misappropriation of resources.
Today we have had snow ,almost rain and sugar snow which is the worst for driving.
