It has not been a particularly good week for me.
Easter isn’t usually a time of problems for me. It’s a family holiday, without much of the religious significance – a chance to get together and take a break.
But thanks to illness, that didn’t happen this year. And if you were wondering why the physical issues weren’t out this week, a lot of things didn’t happen.
There wasn’t much to be done about the melting ice storm filling the River Run basement with three feet of water, or that Grant Settlement Road’s distinct lack of cellphone service made it so that none of the papers could be printed either Thursday, nor after Good Friday. While the online version did come out Sunday, it inherited some of the poor luck, with the website refusing to let me in without an ‘error’ message and a string of numbers.
The ice storm caused a whole slew of problems – branches heavy with ice breaking under its weight all over the region, falling across paths and necessitating hauling dead wood away. My car was encased in a shell of ice that I had to chip away to get inside. The roads were slick with the leavings of climate apocalypse weather’s Easter gift to us.
Other personal issues nobody wants to hear about combined with all this makes me want to stay in and play video games. At least the ice in that only lasts a few seconds.
But it’s a week later, and look at us – we have a play this weekend at the Cobden Agricultural Hall, the weather is warm again and the ice if finally vanishing. The roads are open, if covered in sand and grit from the winter, and we have a whole new paper to deliver. The weeks pass.
