Monday, January 27, 2014

winter and driving

We've been having blizzardly weather these last couple of days.
This is a slight variation on the stormy weather and frigid weather of late. All this blowing snow sure is pretty, though. Lots of swirls and cliffs and then suddenly - a bare patch with grass sticking up! Another deep freeze is on the way, I hear. But this is no Polar Vortex, it is an Alberta Clipper (apparently an important distinction, though various accounts seem to be making them interchangeable)

Whatever. 
By the time I finished work and got home, my jeans were frozen from the knees down and the ends of my laces had snowy white pompoms on them.

Now that I'm home, I'm not driving again. My car worked hard getting through the snow and slush last night.


I found this on a website that likes to unearth vintage photos and am wishing that The Toronto Star still had these lovely newspaper delivery vans and made them available to the carriers.

6 comments:

  1. What a lovely old pug nosed van. I'm sure it has been miserable the last few weeks trying to make deliveries.

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    1. It has been challenging! (but at least I am feeling less flu-ish, as of Saturday afternoon)
      The only problem I can see with the van is perhaps the door that doesn't seem to go all the way down to the running board. I'd be tripping over that for sure!

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  2. That is a wonderful looking old van. It must be from the 1940s, about 70 or 80 years old now. Our weather's no better than yours with wind chills in the -40 range and blizzard conditions.

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    1. It's from 1938.
      And it's been a cruel winter all around, hasn't it?!

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  3. We have had out share of winter this year, but nothing compared to yours. You live in a very pretty part of the world. Not sure if the mail carriers would know how to drive that car, They would gladly try when it is so bad.

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    1. I deliver newspapers, not mail - and I would gladly learn how to drive this.

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