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Winter has settled in the capital, and lately, we have been able to enjoy Canada’s trademark weather: pure blue sky with a high of –20C. But don’t think the weather is stopping us from going out.
The weather channel didn’t lie, indeed. The forecast I posted in Seven Canadian Winter Facts was right on. This is what my Sunday looked like…
Canadians love to brag about how cold it is, and how winters are getting warmer, and how they survived whatever storm ten years ago, and how they went to school even though there were over two meters of the white stuff (white stuff = snow for us — not cocaine).
We already had a big snow storm a couple of weeks ago. And now, this morning, I woke up to that…
On Monday night, while I was outside getting some fresh air smoking a last cigarette, I noticed a few flurries in the sky. But when I woke up the next day, there was just a bit of frost on the grass. So, when Tuesday night I saw flurries again, I thought it would be gone the next morning.
There’s one difference in these two pictures, taken a day apart in front of the house - can you spot it?
J’peux pas comprendre qu’y aille du monde assez innocent pour rester dans un maudit crisse de trou pareil !
Rappel… semaine qui vient, soit du 19 au 23 mars :
I will survive…
Winterlude started last week in the nation’s capital. Probably the best way to celebrate winter and the waaaay below freezing temperature !
The crowd staking on the Rideau Canal (left) and an ice replica of the Parliament.
Sculpting ice when it’s - 20C is a Canadian sport… And yes, it’s done with a chainsaw.
We even have [...]