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Category: What's In My Garden | Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 4:12 pm

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Oh my! I know most of the country is in a deep freeze but with all the snow and ice I am ready for spring! Seems like we have been living in the "Ice Age". Before Christmas we had a major ice storm. Power was out to thousands of home across the province. Some folks never got there hydro back until a few days after New Years. We were fortunate as we had no power for only about 18 hours. Our little generator kept the freezer and fridge going in turns. Also we were able to run a heater and a hot plate. The generator could not draw water from our well however we were comfortable. My pine tree had the limbs sheared off. DH will be cutting it down in the spring and sawing out some lumber from it. We have our own saw mill.
Before Christmas I also lost my 2 year old computer. We were having problems so we did a backup and restore to factory settings. I could not bring up a web page, it would just flash and then disappear. Odd though I had Skype, a couple of photo editors and Google earth. Well, everything worked out fine until we tried to reload Windows. The cds will not reload. Come to the conclusion that it is the hard drive.
We still had our old computer with XP. Connected it up and at least I can get on the internet. Slow but here I am! Skype will not load so I am out of Skype until we decide what to do with the other computer. Just the basics on here. Another disappoint. It seems I can not upload photos no matter how small I make them. Computer's fault I perceive. I had a lot of pretty ice pictures of tress and landscape that I wanted to show. Oh well,I am thankful that I can still visit my favorite site "Garden Stew"!
Happy note... I planted my strawberry seeds today...yea!! Now I must go shovel some snow.


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eileen wrote on Wed Jan 08, 2014 4:36 pm:

Gosh you've been through the wars lately haven't you?
I'm glad your power wasn't off for too long and that you had a generator to let you have the basics until you got it back again.
Keep a hold of those photographs please as we'd love to see them - even if it's a while before you can post pictures here again.
Thank goodness you had the old computer to stay in touch at least.

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Netty wrote on Thu Jan 09, 2014 1:09 pm:

You are not alone in being ready for spring! Here in Ontario we also started winter earlier than usual. Cold temperatures and loads of snow, ice storms, wind, more snow ... I am counting down the days to spring myself!
Thank goodness for your old computer :)

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Cayuga Morning wrote on Sun Apr 06, 2014 1:27 pm:

We had a tough winter too in New England. No loss of power tough. Chrisle, I know that can be tough. I am impressed that you have a saw mill.

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