The Snow

It started about a week and a half ago. I woke up early and thought, "Huh, funny. It looks like there's snow on the tree..." After a few seconds of eye-focusing, "Oh man, that IS snow!!" And plenty of it. The most beautiful first snowfall I've seen in a long time.

As a city, Ottawa isn't too keen on the whole snow removal thing. Oh, it gets done eventually. But that first day, I wasn't so sure it was going to happen at all. When I asked someone about it (around 1pm), the response was, "They're waiting for it to die down." Uh, that's really not how it works. Moncton, congratulations! Your public works snow removal system makes the capital city look like freakin' amateurs. Bravo.

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Without winter boots, my choices for those first few mornings were a) arrive at class with frozen cold feet or b) renegade biking (which is way fun and really doesn't need the excuse of inappropriate footwear). I was fully ready to officially declare it my winter sport of choice until 45 more centimeters today + salted roads = probably no more snow-biking for a little while. Boo!

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Today's footwear solution: plastic grocery bags in sneakers. Laugh all you like; it was fantastically effective. If only it were remotely socially and/or fashionably acceptable. Alas, it is neither. I guess it's time for this grasshopper to get some boots.
Double boo!