Open the Gates! Let loose the Hound! Every year we need to prepare the backyard for getting the car off the street during winter storm plowing. Hearing Halifax may have 30 cm of snow down by Saturday morning, today Friday November 21st was the morning to get preping. Here in the north end Halifax Hydrostone district most of us have parking on the street or in the tiny backyards we access from the common back lanes. Lucky end units on these 1920’s townhouses have driveways along side.
All summer long we close off the backyard, garden in raised beds and half whisky barrels, allow Dolce (Dog 1.0) to lay in the sun without needing to be tethered and generally appreciate the privacy of the little world back there.
So today, with a winter storm promised, in the early hours of the morning I loosened the whisky barrel planters from their frozen to the ground spots, dragged them out of the way and opened our big gates fasteneing them back thinking of the winter winds we’ll see too soon.
