Roobarb, glad to hear you got help with your car. Have had a few battery issues myself. OH has made sure both cars have been run every week since lockdown, but our Mazda has been outside buried in snow for a few weeks, battery probably dead, we can boost it with the other vehicle.
Warming up a bit here, getting over freezing, but we had a couple of inches of snow each night the last two, so we are not really ahead! Supposed to go up to 4 today and tomorrow.
Did not get enough sleep last night, so today won’t be very productive, though I will try. Yesterday we planned to go out, did a little online work, made apple crisp, and then a truck pulled into the driveway. Pleasant man asked to get into the backyard, a surveyor, trying to find the property marker. Another surveyor was in the back neighbour’s yard, leaning over the fence. He dug away, first had to clear the snow (he was able to get to the back via the dog’s trails) and the ground must be very hard. I noticed he was digging very close to my Korean dwarf lilac bush, hope it survives! They didn’t find the marker
So our property probably goes beyond the fence. Possibly the neighbours are thinking of selling.
They left just before we were planning to, thankfully.
We went out to visit a charity store that has just reopened and to pick up some takeout lunch. Looking for books and puzzles, but their stock is very low, and we found nothing. This is part of a North American chain of charity stores and they are quite big. The stores reopened here last Tuesday and I think people just haven’t been donating things since they closed at Christmas. Our Covid cases have dropped drastically and they are talking about moving up into another zone. Still no signs of any vaccines for most of us, though.
Once we got out of our village/suburb we drove a couple of kilometres but had to turn around and go back as the police had blocked one of the main roads in our area, we went back through our village and round another way. Frustrating, but we have time on our hands!
The rest of the day was humdrum, did do my stretches after a few days off. Watched the Canadian Bake-Off, we were happy with the star baker, but wanted someone else sent home.
Must catch up on my emails today.
The excitement, I can hardly stand it
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