I love cold weather, when it takes you 10 minutes to get out of the house, because you have to change, and put on long johns, and a couple pairs…
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Caribou on the Dempster
If you quickly glanced at the next photo, you’d think we got an early start on our Saturday adventure today, but I took that photo at 9:59AM (sunrise was 9:41 today)…
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Beautiful wintry walk through town
It is Sunday… aka Football and NASCAR day in our house. So I bundled up to enjoy the crisp November subarctic air and went for a walk – dogless, since…
Read MoreThe cold silence
It is -16°C outside right now. It is night, cold and silent. The sky is clear, the stars are twinkling, and the intoxicating smell of wood smoke is in the…
Read More2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
I am a HUGE winter Olympics fan. I don’t think of the Olympics much until they start, and I get sucked right in, glued to the events. CBC did such…
Read MoreIce cleats – get ’em!
While the rest of the continent is experiencing the polar vortex, our temperature spiked to 7°C today with rain. That means our driveway is hard, wet, and incredibly icy. Like…
Read MoreWinter is holding on
It was -14°C this morning on the way to work with a -21°C wind chill! It was snowing, and the roads are snow covered and icy. Jeff had to plow…
Read MoreLove the cold!
LOVE the cold weather. Makes me feel ALIVE! As I head off to bed, I just noticed it is the same temperature inside and outside, except outside has a minus….
Read MoreMilder, stormier winter predicted for us
Meteorologist Brett Anderson at Accuweather has predicted a milder winter for Atlantic Canada, with more storms. “For Saint John’s and Halifax, we do expect a fairly stormy winter, especially from January…
Read MoreHad to chisel out this morning
We had freezing rain over night and a bit of snow/ice pellets. It reminded me of living in Sault Ste. Marie where we often had to chisel out our windshields…
Read MoreUpdate on our Ice Dam
We’ve gone about a week now without any water dripping into our house (Whew!) But we have had rain and snow this week so any progress we made on eliminating…
Read MoreHave our merchants lost their minds?
It’s mid February. We have 3 feet of snow. Everyone is having ice and snow on the roof problems. School was cancelled yesterday in our 4 neighbouring counties. It’s winter….
Read MoreCrisp and cold
Jack Frost finally stopped by over night and painted all of our trees. It was -17C at our house this morning, and even colder (-20C) all the way into town….
Read MoreFall, fires, and early to bed
Now that we’re well into fall, and the clock has fallen back, I’m morphed into winter Lisa. I get up at 5:30am now. Reach for my jogging pants, sweatshirt shirt,…
Read MoreThe snow came back!
What the heck? I brag about the tropical climate I’m living in out here in the east, and on Friday night winter came back! Jeff and I went out to…
Read MoreWinter Came, and my Snow Tires aren’t On Yet!
AH! Winter arrived last night! And it should be illegal to drive without snow tires. The drive to work this morning was super dangerous. Cars and trucks sliding everywhere, including…
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