Mother Nature Gets Even - But You Don't Have to Shovel It!

It's 2:45pm and still raining here in Ottawa. It seems like Mother Nature has decided to open her taps full and douse us with rain. Now I'm the first to say that rain is occasionally needed but this hasn't been the occasional rain. Compared to relatives on the west coast in British Columbia this is barely a dripping mist, but it's enough for us that I'm beginning to gather animals two by two....if you get my drift.

In the elevator this morning everybody was griping about the rain but one chap piped up "At least you don't have to shovel it!". That got a chuckle from everyone because he's right. Normally at this time of year we've had some snow that stays just long enough to need shovelling (or at least pushing around). But so far, touch wood, we've escaped the need to break out the trusty snow shovel.

I've still got things I could be doing outside to put the garden to bed and I know I should be hanging the Christmas lights before it gets so cold that my fingers freeze to the ladder while I'm trying to do it. But what the heck there's still time yet, eh?