Imagine you're sitting at your dining room table ready for supper. The table is set, nothing is amiss on the table's surface...the food is piping hot...but you'd be sitting in snow. Reach into your pocket... snow. Drop your fork... gone. Forgot the ketchup...you'd be wading back into the kitchen, the snow way over your Sorels (nod to fellow Canadians). Don't even attempt to open the fridge's bottom drawer.
We are approaching a meter. 😕
It's equal parts alarming and hilarious. Winter travel is doubly concerning. Our community is doing a great job with snow removal but they can't contend...it's relentless. It's also my youth relived, but with climate change, well...we haven't had this much moisture consistently for about a decade...maybe two? Hence I apologize for complaining, but...there's a deer attempting to shelter under my deck. Enough.
Even the trees are alarmed. Examine the photo: I'm 73% sure that's some sort of tree spirit and I'm 100% sure he's exhausted.
Dear friends, there are apparently about 90 days until Spring (insert Canadian-style guffaw here), so in the meantime, what to do, but just go with the flow snow. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ugh!
ReplyDeleteI am not a fan of winter.
It builds character, and by character I mean, perhaps villain, ha.
DeleteI do a minimum of shovelling so can't relate but you're right, it does look like the snow has created a creature!
ReplyDeleteI thought so too!
DeleteWhat an ode to snow! Stay warm.
ReplyDeleteYou too.
DeleteThat tree does look exhausted. Stay safe and stay warm.
ReplyDeleteIn the 2020s, we're all exhausted, but now with snow.
DeleteOh yes my pareidolia was already hard at work on that image before you mentioned it. We’ve just lost some of our snow in a typical January rainthaw in December. It’s crazy I tell ya.
ReplyDeleteYou know what else is crazy? Your word-choice, in a good way. Well done, sir.
ReplyDeleteCodex: And yet it's soooo beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThat's the mindset I covet today. Thanks.
DeleteCodex: I've had my fair share of Dude wheres my car snow days.
DeleteIt rained yesterday. Rained. After three weeks of frigid weather. And just like that, much of our snow is gone. Apparently it's feast or famine in that department.
ReplyDeleteYikes, brown Christmas.
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ReplyDeleteI'm doing my best to send warming thoughts your way.
ReplyDeleteAppreciated.
DeleteI think the snow monster wants to walk inside! Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeleteSnow monster? Apt title.
DeleteThat tree does look like a snow monster! I grew up with lots of snow in upstate NY in the Adirondack Mountains, but now living in Virginia, we rarely get snow, and when it happens it is an EVENT! Stay warm and don't go out if you don't have to!
ReplyDeleteMust go out, sadly. But thank you.
DeleteDon't miss the snow but I enjoy looking at it in pictures. :)
ReplyDeletePics are indeed preferred.
DeleteIts beautiful from the Southern U.S.
ReplyDeleteAnd listen mister, I may unfortunately live in the States but I know Sorels. Great winter boots, which i owned when living on lake erie where a meter of snow is nothin'
I only miss it at Christmas
Ha, I stand corrected. And yes, it sounds like you know snow too.
DeleteCodex: Emailed something
ReplyDeleteGo to YouTube and watch this Snow, Snow, Snow video. (Kid-friendly). Make sure you have your good speakers on.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co-uk3fvneY
Meanwhile, I am grateful to live where snow doesn't happen very often. Good thing, too, 'cause it paralyzes the entire metro area.
Stay warm, drink hot chocolate, snuggle up with a friend!!
And I am grateful that I live where there are no alligators and earthquakes (well, we actually do have earthquakes but they are very minor).
DeleteThat tree looks like a magical being, though rather cross. The snow is a bit much, isn't it? (British understatement, there.)
ReplyDeleteCross is right.
DeleteI love that tree, it looks so cross. I’m sorry you’re getting so much snow!
ReplyDeleteNo need to apologize. My complaining is not very Canadian, is it?
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ReplyDeleteCrazy! Looks like we are going to have a brown Christmas around here so you could send some of that white stuff down this way!
ReplyDeleteI suspect there's not enough left to go around, haha.
DeleteWe're having just the opposite, it's still way over 80 Degrees at the end of December, and even for Phoenix, that's unnatural. Merry Christmas even if you have to dig yourselves out of a Snow Cave... that IS a LOT of Snow!!!
ReplyDeleteOh wow...hard for me to imagine!
DeleteNo where near as much snow as you have, but we're having a white Christmas here in Southern Ontario. Merry Christmas to you and your family, and congratulations on your newest grand child.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much...I hope you had a nice holiday.
DeleteCodex: Yikes. Happy Holidays to everyone obviously.
ReplyDeleteCodex: Comment didn't post. Happy Holidays to you and yours and a better 2026!!!
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