I got up this morning and Saint Aardvark was still here. He’s lucky enough to have the kind of job where he can work from home, if need be, and apparently, need be today as a lot of the lower mainland has no power, trees are blocking some Skytrain tracks and many key intersections are completely impassable. <\/p>\n
This is just like the wind-storms of my youth – oh wait, no. That’s not right. My youth was full of mild, foggy winters with the occasional snowfall thrown in to remind people why they left Ontario. This<\/a> is just like the wind-storm of last week and the week before and before that, the snow and before the snow, the other wind storm. It’s like the west coast ripped off the weather mafia and now we’re being kneecapped, bricks tied to our feet, fed to the fishes, insert other mafia cliche here. Meanwhile, Saint Aardvark’s parents, no strangers to inclement weather, having inhabited Northern Ontario for the past significant amount of<\/i> years had to cut down their Christmas tree in the rain this year. They’re growing moss between their toes, while we’re rooting through our hall closet to find something with which to shovel the snow from our walk.<\/p>\n I forgot to mention this but when we had the heavy snowfall a few weeks ago, I shovelled our walk with a dustpan and Saint Aardvark went over it lightly with kosher salt to prevent it from icing. We call it the “West-coast Urban Townhome-owner’s Snowfall Solution.” WUTSS. Pron. “wuss.”<\/p>\n 911 may be a joke in your town, but global warming certainly is not.<\/p>\n As to the title of this post, a spot on the CBC radio just now reminded me that a month ago, when I first discovered children’s television, I caught some of Franklin the turtle <\/a>and meant to look up the theme song because damned if it didn’t sound like Bruce Cockburn singing it and hey, whaddaya know, it IS Bruce Cockburn. (not in America, apparently, you guys dubbed a female vocalist over Bruce – heathens!)<\/p>\n Happy wind day. Any lower mainlanders who don’t have power (but can, for whatever reason, read this) are welcome to come over for coffee. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got up this morning and Saint Aardvark was still here. He’s lucky enough to have the kind of job where he can work from home, if need be, and apparently, need be today as a lot of the lower … Continue reading