Much chatter about nature here. The snow continues. It's relentless. Where else can we put it? It's everyone's new part-time job. It's like the annoying wannabe bully from Junior High. Could you go somewhere else? However, longing for needed moisture, we respect it...yet we're all studying our roofs with anxious eyes. Some of our neighbours are worse off than us. 😟
Nevertheless, my spouse and I cleared a section of snow on our roof today. Our home was built to withstand snow. It has an interesting history I should share someday but here's the gist: transported to our community from Canada's Northwest Territories (Great Slave Lake) in the late 80s (then refurbished and remodeled), it's built for the Canadian North. And it's bones? Sturdy. More sturdy than us, in fact....
To ensure good air quality and ventilation, we used a rake style snow shovel and cleared a section above our kitchen and bathrooms. Why? Our vents were under 4-5 feet of snow! The last time we did this, we were 20 years younger! I stood on the ladder and raked snow from the roof while my wife shoveled the snow as it came down. At one point, my pants creeped uncomfortably low so my wife pulled them up for me. 😆 What can I say? We're an unfailing team, and it seems, a part-time spectacle.
Dear friends, I will never not be inspired by nature's painterly hand, but she's drunk and needs to "brush" off. 😉
Of the many things Canada has to be jealous of, her winters are not one of them.
ReplyDeleteWell said.
DeleteCodex: No skiing on the roof then? How about downroof slalom? Too soon?
ReplyDeleteTempting, ha.
Delete...a hard winter makes spring so much sweeter.
ReplyDeleteNow there's some perspective. Well said.
DeleteI have never cleared snow from a roof, and, given resent circumstances, I never will. But I do grok you on where to pile it. You may recall the huge pile, way over my head, in our tiny front yard last winter. BTW, it snowed overnight but not too much. It is quite pretty. Final thought: it’s a sad day when your wife pulls your pants up instead of down.
ReplyDeleteBahahahahahahahahwwhwhwhahahahhahaaahhhhhahhahahaahaahhaah. Well played, sir.
DeleteI was going to tell you that you need a roof rake, but of course you already have one! I think your wife should have gone for broke and let your pants fall down. We need all the laffs we can get in today's world!
ReplyDeleteSee AC's comment, lol.
DeleteCodex: I respect you courage. I usually just watch worry and wait for the roofalanche but we don't get as much as you. The driveway and car roof different story. I do the get out once an hour and push the snow like a plough. Then I beep beep when I back up. I amuse myself.
ReplyDeleteAnd you amuse me too. *claps*
DeleteThankfully my area rarely gets that much snow, although last year there was an ice dam on the roof that led to a little interior damage.
ReplyDeleteYikes, even worse...sometimes both happen to various neighbours here. sigh.
DeleteThe heavy machinery were out and about clearing the giant snow piles at 5:00am this morning, lights flashing and engines roaring. Quite a spectacle from my bedroom window. Thank you, beautiful snow clearing equipment!
ReplyDeleteGrateful for those folks too!
DeleteThankfully we haven't had as much snow but I remember back in 2011 when we had that much snow. That's when I put the house on the market. I just couldn't do it anymore and now here I am with another house:)
ReplyDeleteOur roads in the neighborhoods are almost impassable, in dire need of plowing. I'm thankful for my Subaru.
Your wife and you sound like a good team but when I first read that part, I thought she was going to pull them down:)
We had hoar frost yesterday and as we were driving, Jack said, "Look at all the trees. They're so beautiful." Yes, they were.
Hoarfrost is one of my favourites too.
DeleteWe lived on the Western Slope in Colorado. The memory of the amount of snow is one of the biggest reasons we don't want to live there again.
ReplyDeleteI hope you thaw out a little soon and that you don't have to get out and clear the roof again.
Me too.
DeleteWe lived in Alaska for 10 years and the cold temps were worst than the snow. The little snow that made it to the ground stayed all winter.
ReplyDeleteGood point. We've had -50 here a couple of times. It's like there's not enough oxygen.
DeleteOh I remember shoveling our roofs. I had forgotten that! I love looking at the photos and to possibly visit for 72 hrs but im old and now more suited for the mild temps in North Carolina. Well, mild in winter that is.
ReplyDeleteYou used mild twice and that made this comment feel even warmer. Insert fist bump here.
DeletePlease be careful. Consider some extra suspenders. Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeleteHa! Will do.
DeleteGoodness, I haven’t ever had to consider where to put all of the snow, but that is a consideration right? Be careful up on that roof. That seems like a job for a young ‘un.
ReplyDeleteYes, my son...but he has a few roofs to maintain. Sigh.
DeleteIt is truly remarkable, all this snow. Be safe raking that roof!
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