Moar Snow

I am creeping back into my up at 6am scedule. It has taken a bit to get out of that holiday lazy feeling though. It’s still kind of hanging on. My sleep was even more messed up with Bella getting ill and me just being worried. I’m trying.

It actually snowed last night and it’s really pretty out this morning! I’m sure it’ll be prettier after the sun comes up for a bit but before the snow melts again… because it will. it never seems to last more than 24hrs these days.

We have this popup canopy on our deck…it’s came in pretty handy these last six months too. This fall though, there was quite a bit of rain and unfortunatly for us, it decided to catch the rain like a bowl on one side…making the hinges (that pops the canopy roof up) collapse under the weight. At the time I went out and had to push the water out and re-adjust the hinges/tighten them. They really were never the same after that. Then came the wind storms and the canopy blew off of the deck a couple times both ripping up the anchor lines tied out. This canopy has kind of been through hell so far.

Fast forward to sometime in November and it snows….causing the same issue with the rain on that one side. Have to get out there and push out all of the snow so the whole thing doesn’t collapse. 😬 I bet you get where I’m going with this story now…

Okay so now fast forward to last night. It has just started snowing as I was headed to bed SO I got the smart idea to prop up brooms under each of the “bad” hinges so it won’t collapse again under the weight. Clearly I’m a genius! I wake up this morning and round the corner into the kitchen and can see out of the window, it worked! the canopy still stands under the heavy wet snow! I confinue into the kitchen proud of myself when I see the other half of the canopy from the window…the “good” half now collapsed under the snow. 🙁

I spent a good 15min (by myself) ouside this morning getting the snow removed. It was exhausting but a good workout I supposed. It really woke me up.