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Eric said:
I suppose you will be cheering for the Lions ... Me, I'm a Roughrider fan; but as they didn't show up to play this season:mad:, I will be a temporary Blue Bomber fan for the Grey Cup game ... it's a Prairie thing;):D
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Hope the weather stays fine for it:rolleyes:
 
Looks like the snow will have gone for the game {just to stay on track** it,s an enclosed stadium anyway. Yes, will be hoping the Lions pull it off, it,s a Pacific thing! I,ll put a pint on them.
 
ossy kid said:
Looks like the snow will have gone for the game {just to stay on track** it,s an enclosed stadium anyway. Yes, will be hoping the Lions pull it off, it,s a Pacific thing! I,ll put a pint on them.
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You're on .... with a shot of Crown Royal on the side;)
 
And today we are having our first snowfall:alright: But if the long range forecast is correct, it will be above normal temps until my birthday. The geese have been hanging around in their thousands ... still even have swans on the lake ...
 
susie123 said:
Winter draws on, Eric...

Time to hibernate... :sleep8:
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Nah ... We're Canadians:alright: We know we are going to have winter; so most folks get out and enjoy it ... kids love it ... And we have hockey, skating, curling, snow shoeing, cross country skiing, and for those adventurous souls with less brittle bodies than mine, skiing, snowboarding. We even have something in K'town called Febfest, where we get out and enjoy the worst of the winter.

Feb Fest Begins in Downtown Kingston [in 3D] | Kingston Herald
 
Feb fest looks great fun - enjoy a skate myself but need knee pads on - we have an outdoor rink in one of the main squares in Cremona in December.

Crown Royal is a favourite of my husbands after visiting the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto several times -that and morning coffees with Baileys -keeps the cold at bay!
 
Eric said:
Nah ... We're Canadians:alright: We know we are going to have winter; so most folks get out and enjoy it ... kids love it ... And we have hockey, skating, curling, snow shoeing, cross country skiing, and for those adventurous souls with less brittle bodies than mine, skiing, snowboarding. We even have something in K'town called Febfest, where we get out and enjoy the worst of the winter.

Feb Fest Begins in Downtown Kingston [in 3D] | Kingston Herald
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If we had real winter here I would enjoy it too but the slightest bit of snow seems to completely throw most people...
 
Here lovely afternoon, sunny all day -went along the canal through the Emwood, still mild and very autumny...took a few pics!
 

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susie123 said:
If we had real winter here I would enjoy it too but the slightest bit of snow seems to completely throw most people...
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They are really used to snow over in Canada and are experts at dealing with and living with it.
We are near the Alps here too so usually get snow -everyone has to have snow-tyres fitted from Nov -March here or have chains for the tyres. You get a fine if they stop you and you aren't kitted out.
With the UK usually having milder winters it does seem to create havoc when you get a decent snow-fall -i remember all those people stranded on a M'way in Scotland last year....
 
Gordon Booth said:
Mobertol, looks lovely, with walks like that I wouldn't think you miss England too much.
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I's the only one of it's kind round here (2 mins up the road from our farm) -the woodland is quite rare as it is mainly Elms (many got lost through Dutch elm disease back in the 80's) so it's WWF protected. The rest of this area is incredibly intensively farmed and is impenetrable -oh, and it's dead flat for me being girl from the Pennines!:)
 

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Fab pics Eric, I'm so envious! The cat's obviously in there because she is the colour of snow! And I assume the pink blob in pic 3 is your little JRT - took me a while to see her! Glad to see she's well wrapped up! - pink for a girl!

Here are some pics I took in 2009 - we had snow again last yr but couldn't be arsed to get the camera out.

From these you will see that our house overlooks a cemetery (that's the back of our house on the extreme left in pic 1) and also that we have a pretty creative snow sculptor somewhere about.

The fifth picture shows what I don't like about snow here - they chuck so much salt around it quickly turnsto grey slush.

Wonder what we'll get this year? only one mild frost so far.
 

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ossy kid said:
Right Eric, mine's scotch. Don,t forget ice fishing. It,s pickling down here today, ugly.
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Scotch it is then ... Have to wait for some real cold weather before the ice fishing starts ... I fish in the Bay of Quinte ... Injun territory:D I love fishing ... you know what they say: "Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day; teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat all day, drinking beer." :alright: Well, he will if he is Canadian;)
 
Should have taken a pic of the white cat in the snow!

I made a snow-cat the other year with my son Eddy came out really well -will look out the pics....
 
mobertol said:
Should have taken a pic of the white cat in the snow!

I made a snow-cat the other year with my son Eddy came out really well -will look out the pics....
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If your cats are anything like mine they won't go anywhere near the outdoors while there's snow about.
 
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