Dec. 20th, 2024

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My last work week of the year wound up being more work from home days than I had anticipated. Monday, as mentioned last post, we had snow and I opted to work from home so I could use my "friskvårdtimme" to get paid for my favourite form of exercise--moving snow from point A to point B. Over the course of the day I did 2 hours of shovelling, in four different sessions, which was enough to clear both the parking area for the van in front of the house, the shared driveway between our house and the neighbours, and the offshoot from there down the hill to our garage door. That latter I did in a 15 minute session with the snow-blower instead of the shovel, because I just wanted it done. Keldor's car is still parked in the garage from the last time he worked on it, and I don't want it to get snowed in and stay there all winter.

Tuesday I normally work from the office because we have a meeting, but I was feeling just a little not exactly healthy, and, in case it might be something contagious, I opted to work from home and attend the meeting over teams, and I slept a big chunk of the day I wasn't in meetings, which seemed to clear up whatever was wrong. In fact, I managed to get so caught up on sleep that after my visit to the dentist on Wednesday morning I didn't wind up going back to sleep afterwards, which I normally do. In hindsight, this wasn't so good--sleeping off the novocaine is better than being awake while one's tongue and half of one's mouth is numb. Especially as I got hungry and tried eating. I managed to get food down without making a mess, but I must also have bit the inside of my lip when I couldn't feel it, judging by the sore that appeared there.

Wednesday we also got a little more snow, but little enough that I got both areas cleared in less than an hour (which I broke into four sessions). Even though there wasn't much, it was worth doing it all, as we knew that more snow was on the way on Thursday. I had planned to go to the office on Thursday--there is archive work to be done, and that can only be done on site. But when the storm arrived on Wednesday evening it was coming in horizontally, so the windows were soon coated with a thin layer of snow, there was lots of wind, and the snow was the sort that stays in the air for awhile if stirred up. There drifts in front of the house, and on our road were 30 to 50 cm deep, and Keldor didn't try to take the car to work. I looked at the bus app, saw that all the buses came with a "will probably be late" notice, and decided I would work from home. Keldor went straight back to sleep after deciding to say home, since he can't work from home, and had no reason not to sleep. I can work from home, but I started with my "fristvårdtimme", and shoveled a single shovel-wide path from the door to the street, and then cleared the area directly behind the van, and a narrow path to the driver's door, in case we needed to go anywhere, it would be possible (not that I expected to, but better to be able to and not need to, than to need to and not be able to). Luckily, they had already done a quick plow of the road, so it was easy to push our snow across the street to the pile on the corner. It took 40 minutes to do that much, and I decided that was enough, and came in to do some work.

After work Keldor and I both went out to do more shoveling, and two hours later, with both of us working the full time, we had cleared the parking area in front of the house, the shares entry to both driveways, plus part of the downhill driveway to the garage door. By that point even I, who love shoveling snow, was feeling pretty done with the project, so we called it good and went in. Today is the first day of my winter vacation, but Keldor went to work to do the last things that would have been done yesterday. So I worked more on shoveling to the garage door, and got most of it done in the 40 minutes we talked on the phone. Today and tomorrow are supposed to be sunny and cold (it is only 07:30 right now, so another two hours before the sun will rise), and we should get a little more snow on Sunday, which will be nice. 

So, for now, my world is white and beautiful, and I am happy. The 10 day forecast, on the other hand, doesn't look so good--they are threatening temperatures above freezing for next week, with a high of +6 C on Tuesday. I really, really, really hope that is wrong, and it doesn't start melting. Winter hasn't really properly started yet, I am not ready for more melting.





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