From frigid Quebec - somewhere I picked up that it was the 45th of January! usually it is February that is interminable, tho' we are better equipped to handle it than our poor southern neighbours ....
Hmm. I saw some paperwork recently indicating that something was scheduled for June 35th. Mind you 35 days in June would be much preferable to 45 in January.
Our snow ploughs, snow blowers, salt trucks and sidewalk ploughs, have all been named. It's a delight to watch the online feed of them travelling around the city. Santa's reindeer and all four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are part of the fleet.
Here we have Sir Salter Scott, Sir Andy Flurry, Irvine Squelch, Ice Sir I Can Boogie, Gritty Gritty Bang Bang and many, many more.
These are the names Saint John picked in a 2023 naming contest:
Kevin
Plow Chicka Plow Plow
Skip the Ditches
Nor'easter Beaster
Reversing Snowfalls
Port City Pusher
Froster Thurston
Fast and Flurrious
-24° forecast again tonight, but at least it's almost stopped snowing. The roads are all channels with snow piled up and nowhere to put any more. We've had lots of strong sunshine, so the spirits are raised by that. Even I, who likes the cold, could do with just a bit less of it.
I have a goddaughter in Kelowna, so Canadian weather is something I look at on our SBS World News.
Toronto strikes me as a place that frequently gets cold weather far beyond my experience of growing up in Middlesex.
My daughters in Calgary have been complaining about the cold for a couple of weeks, but it seems to have warmed some since then. Still, one is coming for a visit to San Diego in a couple of weeks, quite ready for a spring break.
Showing my age here... While renovating our kitchen recently I saw that one of our spice jars still bore a Steinberg price tag. It must be 40 years old. Then I thought about the other big names on the Montreal shopping scene back then - are there any left? (The smoky, cavernous engineering office at Canadair was known as Steinberg's on account of its resemblance to the supermarket.)
Well; apart from the Grand River still close to flood level, a sudden blizzard this morning still dumping on us and the warm roads making driving more exciting than I enjoy, it's a nice day down here.
In a couple of month's time, I will be making a pleasant return to Canada for a lengthy road trip. We will be starting in Calgary (visiting some old friends) and then travel across BC, stopping off in various places to see friends and revisit old favourite haunts before spending time on our beloved Vancouver Island.
I’ve been to Calgary but never got further into the mountains than Banff. Likewise for Vancouver on the other side. Between the two of us we have family in both places and I’ve sometimes thought about doing that drive from one place to the other. Anyway, sounds like a great trip and in a few months the weather should be more favourable.
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My thoughts exactly!
(Not sure that deportation jokes are really funny anywhere these days.)
Here we have Sir Salter Scott, Sir Andy Flurry, Irvine Squelch, Ice Sir I Can Boogie, Gritty Gritty Bang Bang and many, many more.
Kevin
Plow Chicka Plow Plow
Skip the Ditches
Nor'easter Beaster
Reversing Snowfalls
Port City Pusher
Froster Thurston
Fast and Flurrious
Toronto strikes me as a place that frequently gets cold weather far beyond my experience of growing up in Middlesex.
(Hoping I don't get ejected).
We were cleaning out our spice rack a while back and found some spices that I think must have been older than our marriage (20+ years).