How Canada Does Snow

Life goes on as usual when 8 inches of snow gets dumped on you in Canada. This is because they live with snow 5 months a year so they have developed a system to deal with it. An army of snow plows awaits any onslaught, and this is the coolest thing:

A mini-snowplow to do this to the sidewalks:


You can drive on the road, you can walk on the sidewalk because it's all clear. And it only takes half of our salary in taxes to accomplish this. Unless that's being used for the "free" healthcare. In any case, only half our salary.

There was another surprising casualty from the snow last night.

This was the fort before......

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And this is the fort after. Wah. See that sign sticking up? That is a marker for the snow removal guys. It tells them this driveway has paid for their service, a.k.a.: please come ruin our fort with your snow blower.

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Daisy likes to tunnel her head under the drifts and toss the snow high into the air, inviting you to play. Her attitude might just be the merriest part of this whole scenario. We should all try it next time we have to think about where half of our paycheck is going.