As a stark contrast from last years lack of snow for the month of December, mother nature has dumped 40cm of snow on Ottawa (and the rest of Canada for that matter).
I started the morning yesterday with a migraine which I took something for and crawled back into bed. By the time I finally went outside (a little after noon) everything was buried under a thick layer of white.

Naturally, the plows had left a nearly 3 foot tall snow ridge at the end of the driveway. I quickly assessed that there was no way a car was going to get in without a large amount of excavation and it occurred to me that my roommate would be coming home with her 4 year old after a day of work and would want to do just that – get into the driveway.

I bundled up with many layers, pulled on my boots and braved the two hours of shoveling it took to find the pavement underneath. Having spent most of the last decade living in high-rise apartments it’s been a while since I’ve done this. My everything is sore today, reminding me of how sedentary working in the IT field really is.

On a side note, I have not seen a single mouse dropping nor sign of the little rodent since my encounter the other day. Titus has maintained a fairly continual vigil of guarding the laundry room since the weekend, so perhaps the scent/sight of cat combined with the reduced amount of available mouse-goodies in the area has kept it at bay.

I’m partially disappointed since I had rigged up a live-capture system with the hopes of trapping the pest in order to relocate it’s residence. I can’t complain in the sense that at least it’s not hanging around my food stores, but I know it must be still around somewhere.

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