Some thoughts on making space

On shovelling snow and finding peace

We’ve had two snow days this week, dear reader.

It appears that more are on the way. I’m a bit worried. The snow piles around the yard are growing quickly. Soon, there won’t be any more room to move the stuff.

Snow season’s arriving here in Dartmouth a little bit early this year.

Typically snow doesn’t begin to accumulate until February or March. By the time it arrives, spring is just behind it.

When I was delivering with Ricky it was a different story.

In Nova Scotia, you’re only about sixty kilometres from the ocean. Here in Dartmouth, I can walk to the harbour. The coastline is a mere seven kilometres away.

But with Ricky? We were far inland, delivering to parts of the province that are both inland and at a much higher elevation than here in Dartmouth.

There, they’ve had massive snow piles since early December. Sure there have been a few thaws, but up there in the hills, the snow arrived and won’t be gone till sometime in late April.

A lot of the people out there live in homes way back fr…