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Getting slammed by snow storm after snow storm

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We’re getting slammed with snow here in Toronto this weekend.

Friday we got about 15 cm of snow and today … well I don’t know how much we’ve had so far, it seems a little less than Friday but it’s not over yet. We spent yesterday just relaxing as we knew we’d be outside shoveling most of the day today. We have more snow coming on Tuesday. At least we get a days break between storms.

It’s a good workout, but it’s also freezing outside. I can think of other ways to burn calories that are much more fun!

On that note my flower of the week is the Maltese Cross. It’s a lovely perennial that grows to about four feet in height and it’s flowers bloom in clusters at the top of it’s stalks. Here’s a cluster of Maltese Cross flowers:

Maltese Cross flower

What’s your flower or plant of the week?

BTW did you know that it officially became Winter earlier today? Uh huh sigh …






The flowers of summer will soon be gone

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sunflowers

Well I guess it’s about time to chop down the sunflowers in the front boulevard. They’re beginning to die off since it’s getting cold here and if we don’t cut them down we’ll have no where to put the snow when we have big storms this winter. Yes … we have a very small yard, so every inch counts when it comes to shoveling snow. LOL

Bee Balm

My beebalm didn’t do very well this year at all.

I used to have a clump in my front garden but it didn’t come up this year at all, and the clump of beebalm in the backyard was scraggly with only a few stems coming up. Hopefully it does better next year (or I’ll have to buy some more in early summer) as I really like it in the garden. I like the smell of beebalm when you brush by it’s leaves, I also like seeing the bees, moths and butterflies enjoying the flowers too.

Some of our roses are still blooming even thought it’s getting quite cool here. We’ve had frost a few nights and it’s been down to zero at least once. I guess it’s just about time to say good bye to the garden for this year.

Temperatures rising

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It’s the strangest thing. Early Thursday morning it was -20 Celsius outside. That’s pretty darn cold. No more snow but what’s out there certainly wasn’t going to melt any time soon, or so I thought.

Now, it’s 1:30 in the morning and I’ve been watching the temperature rise throughout the day. It’s -9 Celsius. It looks like it’s going to be warmer over the next three or four days.

It probably won’t be warm enough to melt all that snow but it should be warm enough to get outside and clean up the driveway a bit better. The snow plows made a mess of the entrance to our driveway since one of our neighbors cars was parked in front of the neighbors house the night of the snow storm. When the street plows went by they had to miss the car and this left a wide path of snow in front of our driveway.

So, unless the plows come by again to move the snow over a bit more- hopefully when the neighbors car isn’t parked there, we still need to clean out the opening to our driveway a bit better. Oh, we did shovel. We can get in and out, but it’s still a mess that stretches about ten feet out into the roadway – thanks to the neighbors car.

How did everyone else do after the snow storms?

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