Silver Linings

Another delightful sunrise. A little freaky looking, actually. Something I for sure wouldn’t have seen if I hadn’t had to take the van into the mechanic’s before first light this morning. And who knew that the early morning walk home would be so beautiful?

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Not In The Mood

Just as almost all the snow had melted, we woke up to a world of white. My reaction and Tee’s couldn’t have been more different. My first thought was Oh no. The roads are going to be a mess and he leapt out of bed shrieking snowballs! I grumped about having to dig up the [...]

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We’re Going Skating

The weather last week was freakishly warm, and for the first time that I can remember, it rained in February. Temperatures hovered around 0C which made driving absolutely life threatening, because all of that precipitation froze in sheets overnight, when temps dropped below freezing. The highways were closed, there were semi trucks and snow plows [...]

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Who Has Their Priorities Straight?

Behind our house is our garden. At the bottom of the garden is the river. On the river is an ice rink. In the middle of the rink is a snow fort. And in the middle of the snow fort is a tunnel. (thanks to our neighbors, who dedicated the afternoon to shoveling snow off [...]

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The Shortest Day of the Year

It’s 3pm and the sun is already getting low in the sky. It was -26 C today, with winds gusting to 60kmph, making the air temp more like -45C. The snow creaks when you walk on it, there are teeny tiny ice crystals in the air, and the city is enveloped in frozen exhaust fumes. [...]

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Turning My Frown Upside Down

Well, seeing as there’s no getting around the fact that it’s going to be winter for a while longer yet, I’ve decided to come up with a list of positives about going for a run when it’s minus 20 and we’ve just had a fresh dump of snow: I can sing along with my iPod [...]

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La Nina

Good news for all you (Canadian) cold weather enthusiasts out there.  I read in the paper this morning that Environment Canada is predicting below normal temperatures across the entire country for the next three months. It’s apparently going to be the coldest winter since 1994-1995, which I do remember as being frighteningly frigid.( I had a newborn that January, [...]

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Too Cold to Shovel

27 degrees below zero this morning. Minus 32 with the wind chill. I put long johns under my jeans, which feels not unlike exactly like wearing bulky nylons under tight pants. I forced L to wear snowpants, hat, mitts, boots, and scarf. She waddled to school along with the other faceless stuffed sausages. Even R wore [...]

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