Thread:Witchycat/@comment-29088925-20161206032656/@comment-29088925-20161206151621

Magnificat is in my WR.  🙋

I didn't have full mobility of my hips as a child and so developed an absolute terror of ice. Skating for me too often amounted to glide, glide, flop, ouch! ⛸ I too have back problems but avoid the problems associated with shovelling by using a scoop where I can and an aluminum shovel where I can't. The scoop sometimes screws up my hips but I have to get exercise somehow and any form of exercise that I can engage in screws up my hips. Besides, I was born in Northern Ontario, not far from James Bay, and there we got about 1.5x the annual snowfall that we get here. So even our current home town's snowfall doesn't seem all that outrageous to me.

The ice storm didn't hit me badly. I lost power for an hour or so and had a great excuse to stay curled up at home and enjoy the beauty of the ice from behind a good book. However the pictures of devastation are etched in my memory; especially of the long lines of toppled hydro towers. Those clearly demonstrated the power and danger of the ice storm.

I guess I should finish up with updating my profile and levelling up in the game and then get out with my scoop! ⛇☃❄🌁🤗