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Sleepover at Ikea - Maybe this is the only way to get to the $1 early enough…
A ramen bath - Japanese spa with special baths resembling instant noodles. I wanna play!
Old age homes for dogs - 1) Old dogs don’t like to be abandoned at strange places. 2) Playing with young puppies will probably cause the older dogs to die faster due to exhaustion.
A remote-controlled pigeon - Oh the poor thing…
An article on a brilliant method of teaching grade schoolers about bats and rabies. I smell a lawsuit.
Will trade beer for Crumpler bags. Tempted by the beanbag and messenger bags…
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Getting Sick of Snow…
February 09, 2007, 7:15 am
Man, Waterloo really has a lot of snow, I didn’t realize before, I figured it’s about the same as Brampton, maybe a tad more. A good reality check was when I had to spend the whole night shoveling the 2-3 feet worth that accumulated on our deck. Oh it was heavy too! I mean, we managed to get away with barely shovelling the driveway all month. So why are we shovelling the deck? For fear that it would collapse under the weight or the snow. Or come melting time, it’ll make a pond under the deck again. If it could happen, I think it would happen to us.
Cause we were brought to the attention of our overloaded deck when we came home after work to find wet plaster all over the ground. Cause the living room roof was leaking. So we looked outside. We called around, and learned that having snow accumulate on the roof is bad. It allows melting water to get under your shingles. The professional on the phone told us the only thing we can do is remove the snow and ice from the roof, and let the sun shine it dry. So order me up a sun already!
So we were out till 2 am knocking ice off the roof with a rubber mallet. At one point, I had Mike leashed by the ankle with a skipping rope while he sprawls on the roof with a snow shovel. I think it’s a good a reason as any to get a rock climbing harness. And cleats.
I don’t even know if we can go to Vermont for skiing this weekend. Someone should be there to make sure the ceiling don’t collapse. But then, what can they really do if it starts leaking again? Climb up on a ladder and shovel the roof? And I had my full of snow after tonight. Gonna be sore tomorrow…
Maybe it’s a good thing in those cookie cutter neightbourhoods where all these houses are tightly packed together, and you can see into someone else’s bedroom from your backyard.. Cause then they block the massive amount of snow that gets blown at you.
Water.. Is the bane of our existence. The giant marshmellow? Is EVIL! The Evil Giant Marshemllow. We should have taken it as an omen!
Urgh, can the year of the dog be over already? It’s been pretty black of late for my fellow dogs. So maybe next year our luck with the house will finally change. Getting tired of handling each new crisis that arrive whenever the weather changes slightly!
Tagged: House
Comments (3)
When I read the title, I was thinking, How can you be sick of snow? We hardly have any!
‘course, after reading the entry, yeah, I can see where you’re coming from. 
I’m guessing you know why the owner sold the house, now. I’ve never heard of people having to get up on the roof to shovel it.. that’s weird, to me. Sounds like it was a badly built house. My mom has snow accumulate on her roof all the time; it’s never caused problems (except when it slides off on sunny days with a “thunk” .. yay metal roofs).
Guess what, more snow coming our way…
Ha, yeah, apparently we are the third set of owners for this house. But I don’t think our house is *that* poorly constructed, it just wasn’t built for the kind of weather we get at our particular location. And I don’t think it’s just us. We saw this van for a structural repair company in front of another house in our block one time…
And yes, I don’t think anybody else I know has problems with too much snow on the roof. But apparently it’s pretty common..
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