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It’s a chilly fall day here. I awoke to an overnight of -1C. There is a wee layer of frost and ice upon everything. I’m playing catch-up in my fall work of getting ready for winters cold embrace as I was on holiday with my D23. We drove three days to an amusement park and rode rollercoasters for four days, and then returned. Well, not just roller coasters, all the rides. Oh my, some of those spinner/scrambler rides do throw one around.
The day of our departure was an early start.; 7:00am depart time as lots of travel to do. That morning it had dropped to -5C over night. That mid October drop in temperature was a bit unexpected, as was rushing around in the dark getting the dog water bowl plugged in. Turned out that coldness set in for a few days and my dog sitter had to find a pail to haul water as the set out garden hose froze up.
I returned to just above freezing temperatures. And rain! Actually, D23 and I were in rain the last two days of rides and the entire trip home.
The amusement park locale’s weather was much milder than home. Mid teen temperatures. Still, kind of chilly with the constant rain. Interestingly, and fortunately, none of the rides were shut down due to the rain. And we had a blast! Who knew being rain soaked while flying at highway speeds with water droplets hitting your face like and sand blasting pellets, is so much fun. lol! Oh my, we rode so many rides, so many times.
Returning home I found a few trees had fallen due to storms. My roadway had trenches dug into it from the rainfall-rivers that stream downhill. And apparently I had mistakenly left the upstairs hall light on. Haha.
I bombed around with my tractor and road maintainer/box scraper fixing up the gravel road for the upcoming snow. Removed the box scraper and attached the snowblower. Installed my roadway marker reflectors so I can find the road when those blankets of white bury the landscape.
And yesterday, more rain, and more gouges dug out of my prepared roadway. Sheesh. This will be rake and shovel work now. Oh well.
My last few needed tasks are to drain the vehicles’ windshield fluid of water and fill with anti-freeze; drain the garden hoses; drain the outside water lines and store them away; clean up and put away all the summer tools; and get out the shovels and ice chisels/scrapers.
The 2800km trip was a wonderful ride through autumn’s colors. Toronto’s weather and season has long lasting tress of red and orange. Slowly, on road homeward the pallet dropped the reds, then oranges, and moved to brown. At home most of the leaves are gone. Trees are bare.
The grass however is green, lush, and still growing! I suppose there is some kind of testament to life surviving harsh conditions and all that; but I ain’t mowing any more this year! Hee.
Well, I best get to it. Today’s last few chores will have me prepared for the cold.
