Wednesday 11th

It seems that the ice is to be melted! Hurray for that, where I enjoy the snow, the ice is quite deadly. Almost every drive I've been to is like glass despite what owners have done. They try to melt it then over night it freezes again; but we are in for some respite for the next couple of days.
We are lucky here, the roads are kept in good condition. it seems that every or any where one lives there is always some reason to complain about something, and if we could look above that there is always something to be content about too. Here it has recently become the cost of groceries - they seem to be more expensive here than else where. Where I can't necessarily agree with that, I have to say the price of milk is crazy. Here we can get 4 liters of pop for less then $2, yet to buy that much milk would do big damage to $8! Yes, that is expensive and for families struggling to give kids milk at that price it is easier to give them pop with all the consequences that brings. But then we can get on the roads without a struggle, because they are dealt with promptly & adequately.
Similarly, when we had power lines down due to high winds there were the complaints that the lines took so long to fix. Y'know, the folks that fix power lines usually have to do that job in conditions we don't want to go out in, yet there they are up in cherry pickers working with high voltage wires so we can watch tv! The power workers don't get praised for fixing the lines, usually beefed at for being slow.
And that's my rant for today.