How cold is it?

It's so cold that the hair in my nostrils froze the moment I stepped outside.

It's so cold that when I took a deep breath I started to cough, trying to get the cold out of my lungs.

It's so cold that ice started forming on my eyelashes from the condensation of my breath.

It's so cold that even if your car is plugged in, there's no guarantee that it will start.

It's so cold that even though my hair was dry when I left it still froze.

It's so cold that Jinx's dog walker could only take her out for a short walk today.

It's so cold that I seriously considered not going to work today.

It's so cold my soul feels cold.

How cold is it?  This morning we were at -37 celsius. It warmed up this afternoon to -32.  I am so ready for summer.

Baby it's cold outside!

We're in the middle of experiencing our first Prairie deep freeze. I don't like it. I don't like it at all. On Friday we had major snow storm, about 15-20 cm on snow, with cold wind. Traffic was awful, cars were having trouble getting up some hills therefore it was gridlock which meant the buses weren't moving either. I called Shawn and told him what was going on. He picked me up from the train station, which is really out of the way. I was trying to avoid him having to drive but if he didn't, I would never have made it home.

Right now it's -29C. The high will be -23C. That's the most! That's not including wind chill. For the next couple of weeks it's not going to be any higher than -5C but that will be downright balmy!

Now I have to get serious and plan that trip to Hawaii or anywhere warm. How many more days until spring?

Iced in

I got up this morning to get ready to go to work as I always do. After listening to the news on the radio and taking a peak out the window I saw that our entire street was covered in ice. I decided then that it would be a better idea to stay at home rather than risk going out on ice. So here we are.

Shawn is working from home (lucky guy) and I'm just cleaning up a bit around the house. I also took the time to update our quilt blog. We're up to about 33 squares now, we still have a long way to go. If anybody is interested in exchanging squares and we haven't done so yet, just email me and I'll happily get a square out to you.

So much for global warming

At the risk of incuring the wrath of environmentalists everywhere, I am going to stand up and say WINTER BITES!

These are not clip art, this is a picture of my 'hood. The snow is falling, the wind is blowing and it's just miserable out there. Those shiny things, snow that got on the lens of the camera.

I left work early and was able to get on the early on an earlier train. Was it ever packed, I felt like a sardine. We got to the train station and I decided to take the bus home rather than have Shawn come pick me up. The bus they provide for commuters is not one of the big honking buses but the smaller ones they normally use for people you have disablities. It was all the poor little putt putt could do to get the momentum going. The engine would just be reving and we would hardly be moving. I finally made it home and Shawn was out there diligently snowblowing away with his beloved Maple Leaf toque. My poor little snowman. Being the good guy he is, Shawn went and helped out our neighbours as well that don't have one so when he came in he was just covered from head to toe.

I think it's time to invest in a property in the Caribbean.