Ice Ice Baby
[Written 25 January 2014]
This winter’s been a little unusual in that a sheet of ice has covered the capital area pretty much since early December.
One result is that our street is crazy bumpy due to uneven ice, and the other is that our poor neighbors have had to skate to their cars in the morning, because their drive-way isn’t heated like ours.
So they decided to do something about it. (8 images total)
I took the kids swimming this Sunday morning, and when we came back, we noticed that our neighbors were attempting to thaw some of the ice in their driveway via a mostly unsupervised hose with hot water pouring out. Anna jumped at the chance to supervise…
Melting snow while feeling cold.
The progress thus far.
I wasn’t kidding when I said a ‘sheet of ice’!
I brought out some warmer clothes for Anna, and yes, she has a new winter coat because she’d outgrown her old one.
A couple of boys checking out some meltwater.
Our very bumpy street. It’s been like this for almost two months!
The boys checking out what Anna was up to. Sadly there was only hose, and she wasn’t really willing to give it up, so they soon left.
