....Trying to cut a lawn that's hardly big enough to turn the lawnmower around. But in this neighbourhood, we're tough, and there isn't a lawn around that we can't find ways to cut.
Actually, I'm surprised by this flagrant display of do-it-yourself, because these good people have a regular landscaping service which comes around and trims the hedge, and prunes the shrubs, and could presumably cut the lawn too. Would you believe? There's a built-in irrigation system for those flowers beds and that vast acreage of lawn. No wonder it needs to be cut often - on a good day it can probably grow a quarter of an inch an hour!
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Good morning Ray. I guess it could be worse, he could be showing off hin new rider mower. :-) Now that would be a trick in that lawn...
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I'm currently n your homeland, but on the other side on the continent. We're on vacation on Nova Scotia. Weather ain't great, but the phone not ringing...
@ Tommy:
ReplyDeleteWelcome to The Great White North!
I grew up in Ontario, but have never been to our east coast. My parents went a couple of times and said it's very scenic, but I'll have to take their word for it. My travels have all been westward and northward from where I started out.
From whatever I've seen of our country, I would say British Columbia here has the best of it, both scenery and weather-wise.
It sometimes rains here, true, but it's very easy to shovel, and our
winter stays up on the mountain tops where it belongs. What's not to love about that?
Enjoy your vacation!
Ray, are you actually saying that it doesn't snow in Vancouver? I know it rains, I've seen your pictures.
ReplyDeleteBut snow...You're north of Washington State. How can there be no snow? Is it really effected that much from the water to your west?
I'm kind of supprised that you've never been east. In the U.S. of A,. we travel back and forth without thinking about it.
I wouldn't want you to get the impression that it doesn't snow at all around Vancouver, because that's not true, but it snows very seldom in the parts near sea level, sufficiently to actually pile up and hang around for any length of time.
ReplyDeleteEach winter, we get one or two brief periods when there may be snow on the ground for a few days, but it usually doesn't accumulate enough to be much of a problem.
You couldn't run an Arctic Cat down Main Street, for example.
But there can be a few inches of it on the lawns for maybe a week once or twice a winter, until the
weather warms up and the rain melts it away again.
Most of the time even in the winters around here, our temperatures are in the 40s or even
up into the low 50s sometimes, but
while that's true of the lower elevations, it isn't true for the hillsides and higher elevations.
There are three ski areas along our
North Shore mountains, all within
20 minutes or half an hour of downtown, and at least one of those quite often gets more snow base than the famous Whistler/Blackcomb, believe it or not. But you don't get into the snow zone driving up there until you're well up the side of the mountain at an elevation of around 4,000 feet above sea level. That's what I meant about winter staying up on the hilltops where it belongs. Our seasonal weather changes are more vertical than horizontal because of the nearness of the ocean, and the mountains.