Silliness Abounds

Hello Everyone,
Well, as you can see from the comments in a previous post (the end of the world as we know it) we have a friend (OK Melissa has a friend, I have a stalker who wants me, real bad) in Kentucky who is claiming to have beaten our temperature yesterday. The city where they live is exactly 2670 km to the south of our current location, and before accepting such a outrageous claim I needed to verify. Yes... Its true, yesterday Frankfort Kentucky beat the heck out of our temp. second, while verifying this info I found out that Frankfort is currently under a heavy snowfall warning. Before 4 Am they expect to receive 4-6 inches of snow.
Ok, lets just discuss the gravity of this situation. While our current address is Quebec, make no mistakes, we are in the north. The ice in the bay will melt in June, we live 500 km north of the nearest tree, we are surrounded by tundra, our local wildlife consists of Polar Bears, Arctic Char, Seals and all good northern animals. Kentucky is, well Kentucky, mint juleps, horse races and hollers where ya can marry your cousin in order to diversify your gene pool. But don't worry, the government is investigating the situation and will have firm plans in place by 2050. I know about El Nino, and global warming and carbon balancing etc. but really think about this. It is serious.
Take Care
CG
PS. I apologize to all my friends south of the border, the statements made in this posting we designed to annoy our fiend in Kentucky and do not actually represent our view of Kentucky, just the sort of people she hangs around with.

The Last Ten Yards

Hello Everyone,
Well, the storms built up a full head of steam... or snow. Visibility has dropped to about 20 feet and driving about 10km is too fast. I finished work and had the truck all warmed up for the 14 second drive home. I knew this was bad day to drive home but whenever possible the truck has to come home so we can plug it in and also ensure no one messes with it, and hey its only 50 feet right? You see where I'm going with this right.... start up- check, drive around the store so you don't reverse into something- check, find the road and drive on it-check, turn into your driveway... damn, not quite. After 15 minutes of rocking the truck and watching our house mock me from its ever so secure and warm surroundings, I gave up and decided to get the truck out in the morning.
Then looking out the window at the truck, mocking me this time with its evil grinning grill in a Stephen Kingish manner, I make the hard decision that if I leave the truck where it is someones is going to kill themselves driving their snow machine. So it begins, for the first time this year I start digging out the winter wear, the pants, the down vest, the furry hat, the goggles, the face shield, the balaclava, the gloves, the gloves for under the gloves, the big boots and I'm ready to kick that trucks butt right out of the snow drift. A hour later the truck is sitting nicely between the warehouse and store in a comfortable little alcove free from the 120 km winds that have been battering me for the last hour. Under normal circumstances this would have been taken care of much faster as any number of people (actually the number it takes to free the truck) would have been on the scene in minutes offering their shoulders, ATV's snow machine's or trucks to help extricate the truck, one minor problem with this good will tonight though... no one could see you were stuck as no one was on the roads and you can't see squat from your windows.
Take Care
CG

Its the end of the world as we know it.

Hello Everyone,
Well, Its been a year and half and its finally happened. Today, when I checked the weather it is currently colder in Kitchener than it is here. Yaaayyyyy, hope your lovin it Southerner's, keep your smiles and get your jobs done. It is currently -14 here and -17 in Kitchener. Break out your parka's and go for a walk in our shoe's.
Take Care
CG
PS for the purposes of this post, we won't talk about windchill. The wind is currently 90 kph here but lets ignore that for this monumental occasion.

Sunday Mornings

Hello Everyone,
Another week has come and gone. They all seem to be blending together, nothing new here but lets see what we can talk about. We are under a blizzard warning however I no longer have the deep anticipation of these events that I did last year. we hear stories from the Elders of day of yore when the town was blocked out from the rest of the world for a month, or when the snow covered all the houses and you had to tunnel out. It appears these days are gone. I have to say this has been a very mild winter. Whenever I check the weather it always seems that the temp is about 10 degree's off the seasonal norm, and although we've been getting warning of this blizzard for three days, I expect some snow, some wind and then it'll go away, nothing to write home about.
We're all still suffering though on heck of a cold and flu however, After two weeks of complaining about this particular illness last night I took steps to prevent its recurrence. I found a on-line pharmacy that will deliver up here, so as we speak (I hope) busy people are running around a warehouse, in a mad rush to ensure that we have a good supply of Nyquil, contact C and neo Citreon before the next illness can strike. I was hoping to find a place that sold these remedies by the case, and guaranteed 24 hour hour delivery worldwide and that delivered during blizzards but we will have to endure. And at the rate we are all recovering, they will probably arrive with lots of time to alleviate suffering.
Christopher hasn't been to daycare in 5 days, unfortunately this corresponded with my year end accounting. I've also found out that I won't be able to attend the meeting we have in Winnipeg in March as they can't find anyone to do my job while I'm gone. On the up side I have finally seen our vacation for this year in writing, It looks like we'll be arriving in Ottawa on or abouts May 7 and returning about a month later.
Thats it for today.
Take Care
CG