pros and cons

[ciroccoj]

My mom got us a bed on wheels a few years ago. Very nice bed. Very generous of her. Yesterday I discovered that the really nice thing about a wheel-bed is that when you decide it's time to really give the floor under the bed a thorough sweeping, you can just roll the bed away and sweep the bare floor - no reaching under with the broom, no straining to make sure you caught every dust bunny.

The really awful thing about a wheel-bed is that when you decide it's time to really give the floor under the bed a thorough sweeping after two years, you can just roll the bed away and see the bare floor. Which is not so bare.

'Nuff said.

The crummy thing about living in Ottawa is that it gets cold enough that when you have an old-ish car with an old-ish battery and you don't plug it in overnight, you may not be able to start it the next day, and thus may be unable to drive to your local grocery store and Fabricland.

The nice thing about living in Ottawa is that it gets cold enough that when your oldish car doesn't start, you can just stick the kids into a sled and drag them to the grocery store and Fabricland and back. Good exercise. This also means you can buy cookies and eat them without feeling too guilty about it :)

Comments

[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. I was just thinking about doing a litte new year's cleaning myself. Of course, this involves moving a heavy, antique, not-on-wheels bed which is on carpet which you hate (the carpet, that is). Which has been in place for seven years.

Maybe not.

Sleds. ::glom:: Enough snow to make using a sled an option. ::double glom::

[jenniferjames.livejournal.com]

This also means you can buy cookies and eat them without feeling too guilty about it :)

Hee! Good for you!

::swipes a cookie::

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Enough snow to make using a sled an option. ::double glom::

It's wonderful - city budgets have been pared down in recent years, so the snowplows don't get out quite as quickly or as thoroughly as they used to. So the sidewalks in out-of-the-way streets just keep their layer of snow all winter long. Budget-cutting is not all bad, after all ;)

[a-dawn.livejournal.com]

I knew there had to be a good reason somewhere for Ottawa in winter. We'll forget the fact that I have no kids, car or toboggan. I'll live vicariously through your exercise.

[minnesota-anne.livejournal.com]

that when you have an old-ish car with an old-ish battery and you don't plug it in overnight, you may not be able to start it the next day

We have the same plug-in things in Minnesota - at least, most people do, but I don't. So I send the Husband out to run the car for twenty minutes so it will start in the morning.

He grumbles, but he does it. :)

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

He grumbles, but he does it. :)

Good for him :)

[officerjudy.livejournal.com]

Man, your kids are lucky. I *miss* being dragged on a sled.

Out here in the sticks, the sidewalks are *never* cleared. And right now we have snowbanks so high that I could Krazy Karpet on them.

Come to think of it, I miss Krazy Karpeting too. But if I were to do it now, the neighbors would think I've really lost it. : )

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Glad to be of service :D :D

[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

Okay, now you have to explain Krazy Karpet.

There might be snow/ice later this week. I hope so!