Monthly Archive for March, 2006

When I got up this morning, I looked out the front window and I saw snow! First time seeing snow here since 6 years ago. It was quite a thin layer. It covered the cars and the roofs. Of course, the sun was kinda on it melting it. Then I looked out the back door where our garden is (where there isn’t any sun in the morning). Wow! It was covering everything! Our whole porch, the stairs the tables, the garden beds. Just everything. I walked out to take some pictures (barefoot of course) but as you can well imagine, it was freezing! I thought abbout putting some boots on but then I thought, when in my life do I get to walk on snow barefoot right outside my house? I mean if we drove to the snow in the mountains, I’d wear boots ’cause I couldn’t warm my feet but we had the heater on in the house so I could go upstairs and warm ‘em after.

I was real careful walking down the stair. It was a nice smell. Very cold, crisp, alpiny air. Speaking of cold, my feet were chilly. They weren’t too bad when I walked on the ground but when I got on the ice, they really chilled. Of course, since I thought this isn’t gonna happen very often, I walked on the hail. (by the way, it was all hail, theere wasn’t any real soft powdery snow) It was neat. Like walking on a sheet of ice. After I had enough, I went upstairs and warmed up.

I’ll post some pics later.

Something funny has been happening. Our across-the-street neighbors has been doing quite a bit of landscaping to their house. Last year, they pulled out all their bamboo which made kind of a row of dirt for a while. They didn’t do anything with it until now. They recently took out a plum tree and I can understand why. You see, the punks from the High School up our street come down the hill to eat lunch and they often jump their fence and pick some plums or throw ‘em or something. (If I was my neighbors, I’d put up an electric fence) So they had good reason to take down that tree.

What was odd is that they took out the entire concrete driveway. We thought that perhaps they were gonna put in a big garden but we realized they had two cars. We thought perhaps they were gonna put in cobblestones to add some class. Well, it turns out, they took out all that concrete and replaced it with bricks! Not the colourful bricks mind you. They were, grey, flat, bricks. They were actually small cinderblocks. It was like exchanging an orange for a tangerine (though tangerines are juicer and more delightful, you get what I’m saying). That would seem fine if they were gonna put in a driveway but taking out a driveway and putting in one that looks exactly the same except for the little cracks, I dunno.