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 Snow at lastWell we have finally had snow and our garden looks lovely and wintery. On Wednesday the day time temperature here was -20°C. We have a thermometer set up on our porch which we can see from inside, so can keep an eye on the temps. Today it is a toasty zero degrees.We have been really sad looking at all the animal tracks that appear overnight. This morning we have two deer tracks which shows them walking round the entire house and then across the front garden into the woods. We are going to set up the night camera and hopefully get some pics. God, we are getting so sad, but we love it! The racoons have also been visiting regularly and we have had to put up a new bird food tray out the front as one of them sat on it the other evening and it fell down with him on it. It is now fat raccoon weight proof. Yesterday we got the van serviced. We have done 20,000 km since we moved her in July. This was a major service and the van was in for over two hours, however it only cost $200 which we though pretty reasonable by UK standards. We only have 75,000 km to use over the three-year contract, so we are well over the amount we should be doing. Hopefully we will not be doing as many in the coming years as a lot of them were when we were travelling about getting things for the house etc. We also did quiet a few before Christmas when we drove down to New York. It should steady out now. We haven’t yet bothered to travel to Ikea to pick up the shelving unit we want. It is such a pain having to travel to Toronto to get it, but it will save over $130 in shipping costs so will be worth it. We just have to build up the enthusiasm to actually go there! <- Last Page :: Next Page -> |