Live Every Day - Even The Snowy Ones

So we got a couple of more snowstorms since my last post - 1.5 foot of snow on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.  All schools were shut and also the college on Monday and Tuesday.  Both days we shoveled out and managed to do our errands.  When you live in a place that mostly has rainy winters when it snows it comes to a standstill.  People are deathly afraid to go out in it.  The temperature was only a few degrees below freezing and yet people stay home.  People who come from snowy climates like Alberta think we are crazy.  I am starting to agree.  Others have to go to work when it is minus 30 degrees celcius across the rest of Canada.  Why not get to work after you've shoveled your driveway?  Winter/snow ice tires should be mandatory this time of year down in the valley other than just the mountains but they are not.  Anyway, a bit of a rant but I am kind of tired of the entire place shutting down when it snows.  

 Buddy loves the snow at 2 inches but the snow is almost over his head now so we had to shovel him several paths in the yard to do his business.  He still comes in covered in snow and has to be rubbed down and dried off every time.  He is ready for the snow to go away.

So are the humming birds.  I filmed this on Sunday afternoon after only a couple of hours of snow. If it doesn't load on first try hit the play button a second time and it should work. I have been faithfully bringing the feeder in at night and putting it out early so that it isn't frozen - they hover around the feeder all day not getting too far away.  I feel sorry for them but things should warm up in a few days. 

Yesterday I shoveled our drive with hubby then went to shovel Mom's pad off at her condo.  The association does the roads there but you have to shovel out your own short driveway.  When I arrived a police vehicle and ambulance were at a condo just across from hers.  The police were doing a welfare check on someone, with good reason.  She has passed away.  From what I don't know but her employee was there with the police trying to see if she was ok.  She likely had been there for a couple of days as no snow had been touched on her vehicle.  Very sad.  The whole time I was shoveling I was looking at a small snowman that a child had built at her condo several days ago.  I wonder if that was a niece, nephew or grandchild.  She was my age, not a senior.  It kind of shook up Mom, she has several friends in hospital right now and then the lady across the street dies out of the blue.  This is a small condo project, only 20 units and all are patio homes.  Mom didn't know the lady well but waved to her regularly.  She had only moved in just over a year ago.  The condo is mostly seniors as has rules that you have to be 40 plus to live there.  She likely died due to natural causes since there was only one police then the coroner.  

Anyway, it just goes to show that everyone must live every day to the fullest - even the snowy ones.