…since I first set up this blog and created the first post. It's about 29 C° colder today — the temperature was -17°C when I left this morning. No thoughts of gardening or other outdoor activities yet; especially, since the weekend dumped another 15 to 20 cm of snow.

• Back My lower back is still a bit sore from my fall on Saturday morning but it seems to be more a staying in one position problem. I need to get up from my chair and move around more often than I usually do.

• Music Folder I left it behind at choir practice on Saturday. Fortunately my business card was in it so the church office secretary was expecting a call. Choir friends who live nearby will pick it up for me so I expect to get my folder back at tomorrow's dress rehearsal.

• Van I dropped it off yesterday morning. I rode in the Courtesy van driven by an older man, probably about my mom's age. We had a pleasent chat about this and that until we got to the GO station. It was a bum alternator that made for sluggish starting. Fortunately my wife and son picked it up in the afternoon so I didn't have to waste part of the evening doing it.

• Exercise I didn't run home yesterday: too tired to work through the snow. Also when I tried to jog, the pounding excerbated my lower back pain.

• Snow There comes a point, about this time near the end of February, when softly falling flakes of snow are no longer pretty anymore. I'm ready for robins and crocuses.