They held on valiantly over the last week, being slowly released from their frozen state by the sun, to float away on the spring breezes. And so my vigil, watching the last small patches of snow melt, is over for 2021. Today is the first official day of spring! And just in time the cold… Continue reading Spring, the Official Version
Category: March
March Entries
Milling Flour Again
What a difference a day can make! Yesterday morning it was -17C, and this morning it is -5C. We are to have cold temperatures at night (-10C or below) for the next week or so, then the temperature will hover just above and below freezing for a while. Today the temperature will rise to 5C,… Continue reading Milling Flour Again
Last Week of Winter
It is March first, and I have decided that in my world, this is the last week of winter. The weather people bear me out on this, but they have been known to be wrong. Winter will be over next week no matter what the weather brings, at least it will be at my house.… Continue reading Last Week of Winter
The Dust Settles
Since early January I have been watching the current pandemic rise, experiencing internal stress as I attempted to prepare for its arrival in Canada. I spent a lot of time thinking things through, trying to prepare for isolation, and still I missed things. I missed that bleach expires, and so we have no effective bleach… Continue reading The Dust Settles
Mail-On-Hold-Box
We don’t have enough sanitizer to deal with all the items that come in from the outside world. It is no longer available for sale anywhere. So, we are exploring ways to reduce the amount of sanitizer needed, to make what little we do have last longer. Paper items, the mail, are particularly demanding, they… Continue reading Mail-On-Hold-Box