Winter has returned. Thursday and Friday saw days with above 5°C temperatures and lots of snow melting. It started to rain Saturday, then snowed a bit and then rained again. Then late Saturday evening the temperature plummeted to -10°C and it snowed and blowed. I spent much of Sunday morning shovelling the packed drifts out of the driveway and walkways. Then the snowplow came by … twice! My poor neighbour with the healing ankle and me with my sore back from yesterday. At least living on the bottom of a crescent there's no neighbour on the other side so I just pushed the snow plow's leavings to the other side of the street —- a bit slower perhaps but my back thanked me. Why, this evening I can bend over without wincing and put my pants on standing up!

Today's exercise was running through the snow. I think I packed 10km of energy expenditure into 5km especially running through those drifts. It beats yesterday's run on the treadmill on account of the slushy rain outside.

Just bought the downloadable version of QuickTax and sketched out mine and my wife's returns. I need to find out what sort of RRSP contribution I should make before next Monday. Then I'll have to tally the receipts for my wife's music teaching business. Oh, and I'll have to take the van in to be looked at: the battery or charging system is barely working and the Check Engine light comes on intermittently. More $$ to spend I imagine.