The Sun Is Out
Posted on December 29, 2011 - Filed Under Amused, Life, This Town, Weather | Leave a Comment
From inside the store – it sure doesn’t look like winter – the sun is finally out and it’s really bright here. The store had been busy - and I’m tempted to bring out my garden gnomes that I had gotten from my outlaws for Christmas and replaced the reindeer that are sitting in my [...]
Read More..>>Wedding In January
Posted on December 11, 2011 - Filed Under Health, Insurance, kids, Life, Travel, Weather | Leave a Comment
Canadians knows that January could be the worst time to travel but the spouse’s friend who lives in Toronto is having her wedding in January. They have been friends since they were in college and it’s only right that we attend her wedding since she won’t have relatives in Canada – you see she comes [...]
Read More..>>Wet Weekends Are Great For Movies
Posted on October 1, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Movies, This Town, Weather | Leave a Comment
Wet weekends are great for movies – so come on down and mention this blog article and get the 1 older movie for free when you rent a new one. Now you have to mention this blog post – that way you can get to rent a older movie for free. Only for today! Saturday [...]
Read More..>>Sun Is Out
Posted on May 2, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Life, shopping, Weather | Leave a Comment
The weather is great today and the sun is out too ! hopefully, it means no more rain for us here – we are getting tired of the rain. We went out to get some sun-tan lotion for the kid to bring to school today – and as usual – we shopped downtown for our [...]
Read More..>>Old Mr Winter
Posted on March 25, 2011 - Filed Under Health, Life, Ranting, Weather | Leave a Comment
My kid told us the other day that Old Mr Winter is being stubborn and refuses to leave – the spouse replied that old Mr Winter is causing her age spots and dry skin. Yes we all wished Mr Winter would make up its mind – it’s like spring yesterday and then it started to [...]
Read More..>>Lots and lots of Rain
Posted on November 10, 2010 - Filed Under Life, Weather | Leave a Comment
What a wet weekend we had! Some areas near Yarmouth had as much as 270mm of rain fall over the course of just 4 days, causing much flooding and damage. Roads were washed out, homes were flooded and several bridges collapsed. A dripping bathroom faucet‘s got nothing on the amount of rain [...]
Read More..>>Ready for Earl
Posted on September 3, 2010 - Filed Under Life, Weather | Leave a Comment
Stupid hurricanes! As if I’m not busy enough already I had to spend the morning taking down the trampoline, removing the slide from it’s platform, bringing in the bug zapper, taking down the mosquito net from around the deck and bringing in the furniture and patio furniture covers. So now we’re all ready [...]
Read More..>>Damn it’s Hot!
Posted on July 9, 2010 - Filed Under This Town, Weather | Leave a Comment
I can’t remember it being this hot so early in the summer before. Hot and humid with no breeze to cool things down a little. Usually here in the store if we open the front and back doors we get a nice cool wind blowing through, but all week it’s been dead air, [...]
Read More..>>Hail!
Posted on April 16, 2010 - Filed Under Amused, Weather | 1 Comment
The weather can’t seem to make up its mind this year. We had some really nice days in March and overall April has been looking pretty good, but then yesterday we had quite a little hail storm that turned the ground white in a matter of minutes. We’ve been getting ready to fix [...]
Read More..>>If We Are Ever Late
Posted on January 14, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Ranting, This Town, Weather | Leave a Comment
If we are ever late – it has to be only 2 reasons – one snowing like last week – and secondly because the princess of the store is sick and refuses to get outta the house or keeps forgetting something that needs turning back. But when the kid is healthy and goes to [...]
Read More..>>What Snow? We Are Open!
Posted on January 2, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Weather | Leave a Comment
While the rest of Main Street, even Tim Hortons closed shop due to bad weather, we are staying open for those who needs a movie, game or any computer parts. As long as we can get to work, we will be opened, albeit late at times, because the plow hasn’t come thru’ our part [...]
Read More..>>Spring is here!
Posted on March 22, 2009 - Filed Under Amused, Life, Weather | Leave a Comment
Overall this winter wasn’t too bad. It was weird, keeping with the recent trend from the last few years. Freezing cold one day, almost warm the next.. rain, snow, ice from the sky.. is it just me or has the weather changed a lot in the last 25 years. I could [...]
Read More..>>Winter isn’t what it Used to Be
Posted on May 1, 2008 - Filed Under This Town, Weather | Leave a Comment
When I was a kid we actually had winter. Snow would start in November and last until March usually, and it wouldn’t just snow one day and melt away the next, it came and it stayed. There were huge snow drifts all over the place, the outer banks by the road were a [...]
Read More..>>Finally Some Snow
Posted on February 7, 2008 - Filed Under Business, Weather | Leave a Comment
I was beginning to wonder where winter was hiding, but I found out this morning. We woke up to over 6 inches of the white stuff on the ground and it was still coming down. This was the first time this year that I actually had to shovel the driveway, and hopefully it’s [...]
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