Day 157...........snowman building.

Day 157...........snowman building.

3 Girls and 4 Suitcases.


As promised, the details of the snowman building will follow. First though, It was Monday morning and so it was my day up with Ross. The snow was deep and my jeans were covered in snow by the time I got to Royal York station to get my bus. The snow, however was still dry and powdery and it meant that I could simply brush it off and not be wearing soaking wet jeans. My bus was delayed a bit (they drive slowly in the snow) and it was freezing, waiting at the station. Good job I had put on a pair of thick woolies under my jeans and had two jackets on and a fleecy plus two pairs of gloves. Oh, I know you may be thinking that I am a wimp but I am not. Brrr.
Once my bus got up to Lawrence Avenue, I decided to stand and wait for a bus to take me along the three stops I normally walk. After 5 minutes I decided that there was no guarantee that a bus would even arrive and so I set off along the snowy sidewalk. Too much knee-deep white stuff and so I moved onto the road. The cars were doing single-lane and it was safe enough to walk along the edge. Boy had I warmed up (except my face) by the time I got to Humber Heights.
Ross was glad to see me and I had clocked that my wee lady was not outside her room, like normal. Later I discovered why when I saw her being taken out on a trolley by the paramedics. She didn't look too bad though and hopefully I will see her next week. Ross and I chatted about photography again, his passion and of course, we looked at some of the photos of cars in his magazines. Wow to luxury cars. I am still manifesting my Audi 3. I now have a picture of it as a screensaver. Befoe I came home, we went along to the cafe area and chatted with some of the other male residents which was fun. I do love the flirting of an older gentleman. It was after twelve thirty by the time I headed home, by which time the sidewalk had kindly been cleared by a guy with a snowblower-great invention.

When I got home, I decided to shovel snow from the drive so that Justin would be able to get his car in after work. The snow plough does a great job on the roads but pushes all the snow to the side which blocks everyones drive. Justin had already had to shovel his way out, before work and so I felt sorry that he wouldn't be able to simply drive back into his cleared space.
I didn't even take off my coat, just threw my bag in and told Jen what I was up to. She quickly joined me outside and we shoveled for a good hour. Then we decided just to go straight into snowman-building which was a bit of a silly thing to do because we had already been out in the cold for long enough. But we were warm, with all the shovelling and that ought to have warned us that we'd done enough. Hardy (if a little silly) Scots that we are, we plugged away at our OLAF. The snow was still hugely powdery and reluctant to stick but we shoveled a huge pile and just kept patting it in. So he is not the roundest of snowmen but he was made with love and we did have fun. Jen berated me for snapping at her and my telling-off was taken well and I apologised for complaining about the snow in my face-lol. We were lucky that the wind, for the most part, stayed down because I fear that we may have got frostbite and lost our noses otherwise.
Jen was engenious and used one of our waste bins for packing snow to make a head. That's why OLAF has a bit of an elongated face. His eyes are the lids of wine bottles I had at the back door and his nose is a Christmas orange which had gone nicely hard. His mouth is one of the beautiful crochet bracelets from Pink and Green (check them out on FB) and it has the word Joy written on it. I will be able to wash and wear it once OLAF melts.
I was in a wee bit of the bad-books with Ali because I had made her go to school as it was on. She sent me a text to say that none of her friends were in so I let her skip last period and come home to take some snow pic's. Oh flip. I forgot to give her a note this morning.It was going to say that she had an appointment but it wasn't going to say that it was with the snow-lol.
After we got inside, Jen and I took a very good couple of hours to warm up. My bum was freezing from all the bending over which uncovered it from my jackets and Jens legs felt the worst. However, we survived to tell the tale but may not repeat the exercise.
Baked potatoes are a lovely dinner to have when you've been cold and we cooried up to watch the movie 'Contact' in the evening whilst Ali studied for a couple of exams today.
Poor wee soul has a sore throat today but yes, I did send her to school......again.
So, that was our snowman day. He will likely stick around for a while because it's not set to warm up any time soon.
Much Love to all,
Lxxx