I was struggling with how to keep
it interesting for those whom this
is all old news, versus those to whom
this would all be new.
Well it seems that you entertained even the folks who deal with this on a regular basis!
And here you weren't scheduled
to leave for another four days
Ha ha! No, just a midweek weekend trip
Well, I wake up to temps above 55 too!
Of course that's inside the house...
That's with no heater running......
You forgot...
Snow globes
Snow man (Olaf of course)
I'll stop before this snowballs.
Sometimes (often) I think I'm bonkers
for living here!
I do think you are!
I'll fill you in on the next update.
That was farther North.
That's something I didn't mention.
(As a joke), Canadians are apt to say
"Bring on Global Warming!"
Come on up for a visit... In January.
I guarantee you won't forget it.
It was bad enough when my company used to send me to the middle of Missouri in January for a Music Educator's Conference!
I'm not sure with hockey.
I believe with the schools,
they don't let them out (anymore)
if it gets below -30C/-22F.
I don't think I'd go out if it got below 10F!
I rock a tank top and capris.
I need pictures!
I wouldn't be surprised.
Then again, when we watched
the fireworks, I recall Fran being
pretty bundled up.
OK, well that's her! I can be walking around the house in a tank top and capris and she wants sweatpants, slippers, an overflannel (she already has on a T-shirt) and a blankie!
I'm absolutely sure of it too.
I don't wear it very often, myself.
I barely get to wear the coats that I own. That might have been since we were confined to our houses at night mostly.
Photo???
(Or do you mean the masquerade ball
you went to a couple years ago?)
That one.
Because it's fun, Alison.
I can think of more fun things that aren't as cold.
"a few days"...
Try... months
See that's what I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around.
Alright. Lemme see 'em.
I wish I could've found a photo
of me that DW took years ago.
I was dressed for cold weather
and held a sign with the temperature
written on it.
-45C/-50F
I would like to see that!
Well... you typically don't buy a new coat or boots every year... but yes it can add up.
I guess not. I haven't bought a coat since my trip to WDW when it was so cold (I think in October) and I hadn't even thought to bring jacket.
In actuality...
You'd quickly stop doing that...
because you couldn't.
You couldn't move that much snow.
Not even if I moved it in Itty bitty shovelfuls?
I remember the snow being much
higher when I was young too.
Although, sometimes it was.
I remember it being as tall as me at my Grandparents once. It was also almost as tall as the car. I had just gotten new shoes and they gave me a balloon too. When I got out of the car the balloon touched the snow and burst. I cried.
That doesn't really happen.
Well, not like that anyways.
It gets in your eyelashes
and this happens:
That looks even more painful.
Think of it as... going out in the rain.
You'll change your shoes and wear
a rainjacket.
Not usually. Since we rarely get real rain, I just pull my shirt up over my head and make a break for it. If it's real rain, I either stay home or wait for it to subside. It rarely rains solid for long here.
Just in MB... but probably 90% of that
was in Winnipeg.
Jeez.
I would restock between blizzards.
It's not the flag,
it's the risk of avalanche
and getting buried.
Or being hit by a tractor
or dumped on by a truck.
I looked at one today
(drive by one on the way to work)
and it's around... a five story building??
How do they get it that tall? I was just envisioning a truck with a slanted flat surface on the front that would slide the stuff off to the side.
...because that. Also... it's cold.
You don't want to park any farther
than you absolutely have to.
I keep forgetting about that searing cold. We don't have anything like that here. It's almost always nice out and when it isn't we whine about it.
Except in winter, here,
they'd freeze solid.
And probably explode.
They didn't last that long!
This was a long time ago in the a&&hole ex-husband days.
Turn it on full defrost with the heat on.
Give it a few minutes if needed.
Then you don't need to open the windows.
The "give it a few minutes" is the problem. We are usually driving down a busy road when the windows start to become opaque.