The Weather Forecasters are Sleeping

How else would you account for the 'not observed' section at the top? That is the first time I have seen that.

High to Dry

We, like most households, suffer from a lack of horizontal space to dry things. Since most sweaters need to be dried that way, that was becoming a problem.
Last summer, a neighbour across the street told the Geek about a crib she had seen put out in her back lane. She herself didn't need it, so the Geek went and picked it up.
Cleaned up, it makes an ideal drying rack. I had read about some houses having racks hung above their stoves and thought it would be a good use of space.

The rack has space for one or two sweaters dried flat.
The cords are drawn through eyebolts in the ceiling.

(these will have to be replaced with pulleys as the rack is hard to pull up).

A small fighter plane hangs from the point where all the cords meet.


And looped around a cleat on the window frame.

We still have one side of the crib to use up, so there may be another one made.

Better Than an Ice Dam

The eavestroughs have melted which is allowing the water from the melting snow to run off and not form any of those pesky ice dams.


It is interesting that the ice from the water is 'piling up' on the rain barrel, which was full last fall because the taps froze before I could drain it.

We Enjoyed the Vitamin D

We had a great time in Mexico with K, Ruzter and Lee.








And who wouldn't enjoy seeing their country's flag flown on the mast of a boat from another land?

Memory Aid

I have found it difficult to manage without a camera. Not impossible mind you, but my methods of remembering things changed. For the last couple of years, if I want to remember something, I took a picture-now I had to make sure I had a pen and something on which I could write.
Plus, I couldn't access any of the pictures on my card. The Geek brought her card-reader home from work, but the card wouldn't fit any of the ports. So we went to a store that prints pictures, stuck the card in their machine, and discovered that, thankfully, the card hadn't been fried when I destroyed the camera.Yesterday I went and bought a new one. A very nice young man at Black's price matched a sale I had seen elsewhere. And I have three months to find it on sale somewhere else, so I could potentially wind up with a better deal (I am such a Manitoban).

The new camera is the same size as the old one, but has an extra two megapixels, and you can now touch the side of the camera to change the flash and other features. I'll have to see how that works for me, twitchy person that I am.

I put the camera in a bowl of water just to make sure the seals were intact, and it seems to be fine. Admittedly there is considerably less pressure in two inches of water on my kitchen counter than there is at 15 feet, but at least I know that it is basically sound.

Now I can finish uploading pictures for previously started posts!

March; Like a Lamb

March came in like a lamb and has been behaving like one ever since. We have had near or above zero temperatures for the last few days and they are being forecast into the foreseeable future. The flood forecasters are happy, since a slow melt means there will be less chance of another flood this year.
However, given that this is Winnipeg and it is March, I am waiting for the lion. I'd rather that big storm would just come and get it over with. Just end the suspense already so I can truly get ready for spring.

It's Like Living in Calgary

This morning it was about -21 when I left the house. I was wearing my parka, cowl, toque and heavy mittens and feeling comfortable.
Coming home it was only -3. The cowl and toque were stuffed in the backpack, the parka was undone and the mitts were only half on. And I was too hot.
How do people stand living in Cow-Town where this kind of weather is commonplace? It would drive me crazy. And I would need a bigger backpack into which I could stuff my extra clothes. Good thing I wasn't planning to move west!