Where's Elmo?

For those who don't know, Elmo is a Sesame Street muppet who apparently has a habit of hiding himself. Kids can have great fun trying to find him hidden in the pages of his books. Well, since most of my readers are a little too old for Elmo mysteries, I thought I would present you with one of my own:

Where's Doth's (Daughter Of The House) and my cars?

Give up?

Doth's is on the middle left, and mine is middle right, hiding behind the five-foot high snow banks.

Where's the candy-cane Christmas decoration?

Yep, that's it, in the middle of the three objects. It's 3.5 feet high, by the way . The object to its right is (was?) a pretty Christmas basket (sitting on a rock) with sprigs of fir, pine cones, Pointsettias, and other pretty Christmas decorations. We've not been able to get them out and put away, since Christmas. The snow just doesn't stop!

Where's the bird-bath? You're right! That's it, bottom left, with at least a foot and a half of snow on it. The object top right is the composter!

What's this?It's actually the view from our second-floor bathroom window. That mound of snow on the left? It's on top of the canopy that hangs over the back-yard patio -- virtually impossible to get the snow off it, and it's beginning to buckle under the weight.

What's this?

Believe it or not, it's the backyard bird feeder.

Who's this?

This is our good neighbour, Mr 'L', whom we've hired to bring his trusty snowblower by after a heavy snow storm and dig us out.

And this...

...is Mr 'L' clearing our driveway at the same time as Mr ? in his BIG snow-plow truck is clearing our neighbour's driveway. We are not able to "keep up with the Joneses" so we use the 'little man'-- he's cheaper and just as efficient, although a little slower!

And anyway, the 'big guy' can't drive his truck down the sidewalk, so he has to still pull out his little snowblower (BIG penalties for not clearing your sidewalks, in this city).

This is the view from our living room window, looking down the street -- do you wonder why I was unable to get to church today??

'kay -- so I'm not complaining (I promised not to, remember, at the end of summer?), but just wanted you readers of my blog, who are living right now in 70-80 degree weather, to be very grateful.