Our Location: Buttercup Ridge, Roseneath, Ontario
A fine few days have passed here at Buttercup Ridge. The weather has mostly been sunny with some cloudy periods but the winds were brutal Friday daytime and late into the evening. The local area of Burnley is without power and has been since last night around 7:30 pm. We fall in that little enclave of powerless folks. Estimations are for around midnight tonight, Saturday that the power will be restored.
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| Some of my raking efforts... |
Wind gusts reached 63 mph/102 km yesterday in the small city of Peterborough just to our north. Various other locals in south western, south central and south eastern Ontario all had devastating winds as well. With the fast moving wind came a cold front which dropped temperatures about 25 degrees within a couple of hours. I've seen some estimates for power restoration ranging from a few hours like us to 10 days in the future. Not a comforting thought.
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| Soon be time to move these cattle out of the barnyard and on to some pasture land. |
The sun shine was wonderful again today, warmed up nicely with just a slight breeze which picked up to gusty again this afternoon but has since died down again. We had no rain to speak of at all during this wind event and other than a few downed branches I found no other evidence of the wind. Well of course except for the power outage.
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| Signs of spring growth at the pond. |
We've spent a lazy day here just kind of cleaning up the Igloo, reading, napping. You know the drill right? We soon need to find ourselves some more reading material, or at least I do, I have 3 books left to read before I run out. I'll have to fire up my Kobo soon and download some more reading material before too long.
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| Definite signs of spring here at Buttercup Ridge. |
Tomorrow we will hopefully be doing some laundry before we get ready to pull out. It was actually on the agenda for today but due to power issues, didn't get accomplished. We will also be hooking up, backing the Igloo out of the circular drive (due to low power lines we can't complete the circle) and getting ready to head out Monday morning for the next part of our homeward journey.
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| Farm/cow country signs of spring as the manure haulage begins. |
So there you have it, our quiet few days here at Buttercup Ridge. Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed your visit.
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| Love the wood fire pizza oven. |
Until next time... take care, be safe,
Deb
