With cold weather comes nostalgia

It's especially cold out today at an unwavering 9 degrees celsius (that's barely 50 for all my yankee friends). That's certainly not going to coax the May flowers out of the ground. Out of all of the sterotypes than most people associate with Canada, the cold weather is the one that's closest to the truth (that's excluding Vancouver, of course,which is off in its own little westcoast world where the temperature rarely drops below freezing in midwinter). I've lived in Toronto for the past few years and it gets pretty damn cold here. In fact, a couple of years ago, the city was hit with almost 30 inches overnight. Threre weren't enough snow removal vehicles, so the city had to call in the military to haul the snow out. I thought that was pretty hilarious at the time. They rolled into town decked out in snowshoes in their general purpose vehicles (that's right kiddies, the same ones we used in WWII- no expenses spared). A lot of other Canadian cities made fun of us for bringing in the troops, but come on...let's not kid ourselves...it's not like they were terribly busy or anything. I mean, sure, they were a little put off about having to leave their Euchre games for a half a day, but they were home in time to watch CBC's The National whilst sipping Tim Horton's Hot Chocolate. No harm, no foul.

I love this country.


Relax, I'm pretty sure that's just a back scratcher he's holding.