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More adventures in the urban great outdoors
Ventured out again today with ice chopper in the basket of my walker, to see what the street was like south of me. Impassable was what it was, because the Mad Italian Nonno and his neighbour didn't shovel at all in the last week, and cars clearly ran up on the sidewalk leaving great snow ruts. In spite of soaring temps (6C/ 40 something F) the slush was beyond my ability to move, and the underlying ice was still immovable. Thus no trip to Fiesta for me yet. So I turned around and went north where someone had removed the slush ponds of yesterday and the sidewalk was clear to Dupont. Except of course there was a literal pond at the corner on one side and the usual narrow footprint walkway between snow berms on the other side. Solved this by using the driveways just to the south of Dupont and avoided the corners entirely. There are emergency no parking cones between Yarmouth and Dupont so evidently the city intends to clear that block at least.
Equally the view along Yarmouth shows it clear for at least the first block, so I'm guessing I'll be able to get over to the polling station on Thursday, which is a relief. Getting to a car or taxi over the ice and slush still remaining on my side of the street would not be easy even with this week's continued above freezing temps.
Ran into Mrs. Islamic Studies on my way home, returning disgruntled from the subway station which is awash with snowmelt and cars roaring up Christie and spraying pedestrians with same. She opines that DoFo called the election early because he expects Poilievre to be elected federally in the summer (absit omen) and knows that if the FedGov is Conservative, Ontario will at once boot him out. He's leading in the polls because he's the strongman who (paid $85,000 to secure an interview with Donald Trump Jr.) (is the only one who can stand up to the big bad president and protect Canada) (TYP). I always hope polls are wrong because they call people on landlines and only the aged have those, but I'm afraid the rest of the province thinks the PCs are just the bee's knees and wouldn't vote Liberal, let alone NDP. And there's the National Post, owned by Americans, saying Trudeau can't stand up to Trump but of course Ford will. Yeah, sure. Nobody can stand up to Trump, guys.
Equally the view along Yarmouth shows it clear for at least the first block, so I'm guessing I'll be able to get over to the polling station on Thursday, which is a relief. Getting to a car or taxi over the ice and slush still remaining on my side of the street would not be easy even with this week's continued above freezing temps.
Ran into Mrs. Islamic Studies on my way home, returning disgruntled from the subway station which is awash with snowmelt and cars roaring up Christie and spraying pedestrians with same. She opines that DoFo called the election early because he expects Poilievre to be elected federally in the summer (absit omen) and knows that if the FedGov is Conservative, Ontario will at once boot him out. He's leading in the polls because he's the strongman who (paid $85,000 to secure an interview with Donald Trump Jr.) (is the only one who can stand up to the big bad president and protect Canada) (TYP). I always hope polls are wrong because they call people on landlines and only the aged have those, but I'm afraid the rest of the province thinks the PCs are just the bee's knees and wouldn't vote Liberal, let alone NDP. And there's the National Post, owned by Americans, saying Trudeau can't stand up to Trump but of course Ford will. Yeah, sure. Nobody can stand up to Trump, guys.