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| The Barrie Examiner |
The major arterial, the 401 highway was shut down repeatedly this week as a result of massive white-outs causing numerous collisions. The OPP and municipal police have been kept busy responding to road collisions. And yesterday seemed to top it all off when a 75-vehicle pile-up on highway 401near Napanee made for yet another shutdown. An estimated 35 tractor-trailers had jack-knifed and crashed, along with passenger vehicles. There was no loss of life, but a number of people were taken to hospital with serious injuries.
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| The Barrie Examiner |
We've been seeing chickadees, squirrels and cardinals increasingly come along to take their share of the peanuts we've been putting out at the side door and on the porch of our house. It's a delight to see them, but wrenching to think that these tiny creatures are being exposed to such unrelentingly nasty weather.
Yesterday my husband went out to run some errands, and in the process dropped by the bulk food store located nearby, to pick up several items, including shelled raw peanuts, sunflower seeds and birdfeed. We've never wanted to put up bird feeders because of the prevalence of neighbourhood cats skulking about. In the past we've found the sad mangled carcases of tiny rabbits, birds and mice.
There has been a rabbit nestling in a snow hollow under one of the spruces in the back garden, the area full of its droppings. We tried putting out small carrots, but though they weren't to be found later, they do freeze, leaving us to wonder what good they might be.
In any event, now birdseed, sunflower seeds and peanuts are all there awaiting the presence of hungry creatures requiring sustenance.
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