Dish drip
As I had mentioned we are far from the end of winter. Today some light snow that was driven to movement. Not exactly drifting but pretty close. We have also noticed a slight change in our satellite dish. The device is magical. It finds passing birds that we don’t even know about and it also responds to weather. There is a heating element inside so the snow cannot build up but this is the first time we have seen icicles forming. Just warm enough to melt the snow just cold enough to freeze back. Now those magical pillars that used to format my parents place. As big around as my leg and to remove them you used a small axe. Or hoped the gravity would kick in and takedown the icicle without taking down a section of roof. A carefully measured game when you are a young man. Such things depend on where you live. I had seen them in Ontario but almost never in Quebec. Here, not yet. That might be one of the things that I miss but with water freezing less often. No big displays of ice and no possibility of building a fortress. I used to have a degree of mastery shovel. I did it all. I cleared off roofs. I cleared walkways. I built tunnels in the banks. Never was given to using salt, or sand. Here, I have in certain seasons gone to collect small sacks of sand from the beach. Enough to sprinkle on the driveway. This year again not yet. It is amazing today depending upon technology fit for science fiction to get my little pile of icicles. And for what it’s worth I am happy to leave the heating cycle on. That way, I will not be out there with a broom trying to break something. Oddly enough, the birds have not figured out that there’s a warm place to sit.
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