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Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Tiverton Town Alert: Trash & Recycling

Evening!  To my townie friends who might catch the blog tonight; the town has now cancelled all trash and recycling for the week; schedule resumes as normal for next week.  

No bins, no barrels until next week.   

FMI: https://www.tiverton.ri.gov/AlertCenter.aspx?AID=11 

Rade 

 

The Big Dig (Out)

There is over 2' of snow on our side street (up past my knee!), not counting the drifts.  I tried to walk to the  corner to take some photos, but it got too deep to move through.  

Looking North. 

The side entrance... 

Looking South. 

On the plus, the town finally opened up the center of the road in front of our home.  Going to wait until they do that side street before we attempt to dig ourselves out any further.  

 

Morning Coffee Roundup - February 24

Roads have not yet been plowed, so a good morning for a pot of coffee and to scan though funny and interesting things to share...

Thank you, Wiley.
 
It's these little things in life... 
 
GREAT take down of Twitter by John Oliver, of how the 
platform is nothing more than a fire hydrant for
political disinformation and toxic rage.  I have family
and acquaintances who insist on sending me links from 
there. I just delete them and tell them, "No thanks".  
 
And finally, the SOTU is tonight. 
Personally, when SCROTUS is on,
we choose the OTHER red button on the remote. 

 

 
 
 

 

Your Daily Meme

 

Thank you, Wiley. 

Monday, February 23, 2026

The Blizzard of '26.

 
Outside the back door. 

A view down our street. 

The driveway... my gym is now open.

Opened up enough to get the old Toro out!  

A bit of an overhang... 

Driveway done, and we beat the town plows. 
Stopped right at the curb. 
All in all, about 28" of new snow with a 
1" ice pack on the base. Glad we cleared this today! 
 
The sun has set.  The storm is gone.
Nary a plow truck in the neighborhood. 
Time to call it a night.  


Balalaika time...

Days like today make me want to watch "Doctor Zhivago" and practice the balalaika...

The view outside our patio door onto our deck.   
 
The back yard (covered patio from first photo)
(from under eave security camera) 
 
View of the street through the front door. 
 
Side entrance view before...  
 
Side entrance view during... 
(another under eave security camera shot;
door has snow 1/2 way up) 
 
 
Side view of house before...
 
Side view of house during...
 
It's been a good morning for a pot of tea (not my usual coffee).  Power went out (so far) for all of about 15 seconds.  Just enough to reset every clock in the house.  Local meteorologists are saying this won't begin to subside until early afternoon and the wind won't let up until tonight.  
 
We certainly have a good 16" of snow on top of what we had from last weeks storm.  
 
But we're in.  Safe.  
 
Nesting upward,
Rade