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Tainee, our PCA, is a member of the family and we love her to bits.
Not only does she manage to keep the two of us on schedule, and handle all the stuff we can’t do because of our chairs, she’s one of those rare human beings who is just genuinely a really nice person. In the slang of the Service, she’s a good egg, snappy dresser, fun to be with at parties.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get any pictures yesterday, but I wanted to get this update up from round one before round two hits – it just started snowing again.
I have no clue where he got it from, but yesterday we were astonished to see one of our neighbours come down the road in a Bobcat, a small front-loader excavator. He then proceeded to chunk out a wide path down the road, and even cleared our driveway enough so we can get to our trashcans.
So all the clearance you see in the pictures below is attributable to one resourceful resident, not the town, and not the county.
I love how history repeats itself.
Most of the snow clearance you see on the ramp was done by our fantastic and wonderful PCA, Tainee. I did get to go out and start hammering on the ice on the ramp though – figures I get to do the destruction part 
They think that plows might get to roads like ours mid-week.
Now, I realize people might say “Oh, well, the neighbors will all decide to dig their own way to the nearest cleared road” – and they very well might – but it won’t do us any good, since even a relatively small pile of frozen-slushed snow a car might drive through, or a pedestrian might step over, might as well be a solid wall for a wheelie.
I was in email with Yasmine Galenorn’s wonderful administrative assistant FairyFindings this morning, and in the course of it mentioned a couple of other renders that aren’t really part of the Sisters of The Moon fanart I did. I promised her I’d dig through those rough drafts, and I came across this prototype.
Remember that old quote about interfering in the affairs of dragons? Well, this character from the Otherworld series pretty much sums that up – if you’re anyone other than Camille, that is.
So here we go again with a rerun of the snows from last December, dubbed “Snowpocalypse”.
Which is kind of strange, given how it seems like DC goes into an absolute panic when the snowfall totals 3 snowflakes, let alone the three feet or so that’s fallen so far.
Unlike December, we’ve seen one Town snowplow, yesterday. I’m not sure why there’s been nothing since then, maybe they’re conserving supplies for when the snow finally stops falling.
It seemed a little unfair to do renders of Menolly, Delilah, and Ariel, but to leave out the last of Yasmine Galenorn’s Sisters of The Moon from her Otherworld series of novels.
The problem is, how to properly do justice to Camille, the first one of the three half-fae/half-human to be written of in Witchling.
Camille’s got extra considerations. She’s a witch and Priestess of the Moon Mother, with an affinity for lightning and Death Magic, but (except for the Death Magic) her talents sometimes have a habit of … backfiring. Enough that everyone around her who knows her tends to cringe and cross their fingers the Moon Mother will shine on her and not let her spell do nasty things to them (or Camille herself)!
I’ve been having a bit of an art block recently, with life intruding, the death of one of my storage drives and trying to recover that for a project, and the weather.
So, for rest and relaxation, I fall back to my second favourite pastime (after doing renders of Giger-esque aliens) – Doing renders of the characters in books I love.
I’d done one of Menolly, one of the Sisters of The Moon from Yasmine Galenorn’s Otherworld novels a little while ago, and figured since I’m on a roll, stick with ones I have a visual of firmly in my head.
OK, I’ll admit it – to go with my well documented love for Giger-esque aliens, I have a thing for vampires too.
Oh come on, they’re just as misunderstood and cute and cuddly and friendly as Giger’s creations!
Fine, be like that!
Yeesh. See if I ever get around to dusting The Stranger off!
Anyways, in the field of vampires, there’s one that I absolutely love, and not just because of her dress sense and hair style.
OK, maybe those have a lot to do with it, but that’s not the point.
So it’s Sunday, the snows have stopped, and it’s time to begin digging out the ramp, front garden, and driveway.
The ramp is the dangerous part – we have to clear a spot, dump ice-melt where we’ve cleared, give it a few minutes, then move forwards. Rise, repeat.
Thankfully we have some help with traction on the ramp, a friend several years ago laid down some wire mesh on one side that helps give our tires something to grip onto.
But it’s still a somewhat nervous experience, the rail on the left has stopped chairs from going over the side several times!
You might need it!
Pictures are taken at various times during the DC snowstorm in 2009. As more pics are taken, this page will be updated.
We could only take a few pictures from the house – as you can tell, we’re pretty much stuck right now since no-one makes snowchains for powerchairs (Mark E. Smith where art thou???)
Strangely, the town’s Department of Public Works hasn’t taken the plows out to the street (at time of writing, saturday evening). This is slightly perturbing.
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