Condo Work and Snow
We did some work on our condo today. Minor stuff, but still big, because neither of us is used to doing “handy” stuff around the house.
We put up a towel holder.
And hooks for robes. The first one worked nicely, drlling holes for the second hook, though, we hit a concrete pillar (hidden behind dry wall), so we couldn’t drill a hole deep enough for the screws to fit.
Means we have to go out and buy shorter anchors and screws and try using those. Bloody hell. 
If that doesn’t work, we have to fill the holes, re-paint and drill new ones. Fun.
Then we went on to hang up our key holder. We wanted it next to the breaker box, but didn’t want to risk drilling holes so close to wires. We decided to go for the opposite wall instead.
Funny thing is: we hit concrete again. So we said “screw it” and tried drilling holes next to the breaker box. That worked, at least well enough. No issues with the first hole and the second hole was almost deep enough before we hit concrete there again. The screw would fit, but the anchor was too long, so we simply cut the anchor and screwed the key hooks on anyways.
Now the key hooks are in the place we wanted them, but we definitely have two holes we have to fill and paint over.
Fun stuff doing work on your condo. Especially if you don’t have any previous experience and you end up with nice surprises like concrete pillars where you had no idea there were any.
Afterwards, I went for a nice walk in the snow to get some fresh air and stretch my legs. There’s a lot of that white stuff out there right now. It’s been snowing constantly for over 24 hours at this point. I took some pictures of the neighbourhood.
That’s the hedge by our rear driveway.
That’s 31st or 32nd Avenue. 
Can’t remember which — and I don’t know the area that well yet.
That’s a whole lot of snow on these branches, don’t you think?
Vancouver does have snowplows. lol Even if it’s not very many (for a city of its size): 27 according to their home-page. This is King Edward Ave.
That’s Mountain View Cemetery.
More of Mountain View Cemetery in the snow.
That’s our building, which means I had made it back home by that point.
