It's Gone!

So what exactly does it take ot melt a foot and a half of snow?  48 KPH winds and several days of rain!  Buddy is so happy the snow is gone, he was peeved off as he is not a foot and a half high so his yard had shrunk to the couple of runways hubby had shoveled for him to do his business.  Yesterday it was very briefly sunny and he just sat out there looking around at his green kingdom, glad everything was right in his world again.

I will never again complain about snow and cold after what others are experiencing this week.  St John's Newfoundland is still under a state of emergency where they advised all employers to shut their doors for the safety of their citizens.  Today is the first day (after 5 days) that people could try and get some groceries.  Can you imagine shoveling out your car because it is entirely covered in snow?  If you missed it and want to see some pictures here are some from Global News,

On the weekend we painted two more walls, just a couple to go, most of which I will do without hubby as he is crazy busy right now with our business.  I am still selling things like this Starbucks mug that I found Saturday and sold on Monday.  If only I could find more of these - last year I sold 6 Starbucks mugs and this year have already sold 2.  

Thanks to Lorraine of CLAMCO I found out that Windows 7 was at the end of life on January 14 and now a security hazard.  I managed to upgrade our backup old laptop (the one we started the company with) to Windows 10 for free even though technically they are no longer supposed to be offering free upgrades.  If you still need to do this make sure you have several hours - it took me 4 - and you can read through these instructions.  Technically it shouldn't be free but as I had an old Windows 7 license they did not charge me to upgrade.  One less thing on my long list of crap I have to take care of.  I also cleaned out my fridge this week, which was also on the crap list.

I took Mom grocery shopping yesterday, she hadn't left the house since last Tuesday.  I was still worried about her slipping on slush on the weekend so we waited until it was bare pavement again.  I took her a couple of groceries on the interim but she was very happy to leave the house finally.  I feel sorry for those seniors who don't have someone to bring them things if they can't get out.  My husband saw a senior on crutches walking around on Thursday after the storm trying to navigate unshoveled sidewalks.  Keep in mind it is mandatory for people to shovel their sidewalks for public safely yet somehow the city doesn't shovel their own.  Funny how that works.  At least now the snow is gone and we are back to green!!