MAC are you listening?
' The first of May, the first of May, outdoor screwing starts today.'
Calgarians may be hard pressed to follow that guideline from one of our buddies at Tricentrol many moons ago. You know who you are!
Last week street cleaning machines were all through the neighborhood removing the gravel from the roads, washing them down from winter debris, clearing the grassy centre and road edges ready for new growth. Trees and hedges are budding - hooray.
In the park across the road from our house, the frogs keep up a loud chorus, the robins are competing for nest space, and a bald eagle has returned with the ubiquitous Canada geese and rare white geese, the latter making brief stops en route north. The cacophony from the Glenmore Reservoir is deafening and mornings we now wake to a loud dawn chorus at 5am.
Water levels are high but will be dropped shortly in anticipation of the mountain spring runoff to prevent floods for residential areas near the river banks. Two years ago our basement was flooded, so we now have sump pump installed which will prevent any recurrences. Many neighbours had to completely redo their basements with far worse flood damage than we had.
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