Lame Duck Winter
Where’s the snow? I remember snow. When I was a boy the snow from the driveway was piled high on the yard; towering over my head like a white, motionless, tsunami. Mind you I was only three to four feet high then, but still.
…we expect to be shovelling driveways…
There was a faint dusting of snow just after Christmas, and since then record high temperatures, grey gloom and light rain. One would think we were living in Vancouver. This however is Toronto, and in Toronto we expect snow. We expect to be shovelling driveways. We expect there to be so much snow that we have to call out the Army to come clear it away. But there is no snow, and perhaps it is for the best. We will not suffer the ridicule of our fellow countrymen over a future operation “snowplough”, and the Army is on tour in Afghanistan anyway.
They say that the deep cold of winter is just days away. They say there will be snow soon, and a rebirth of the central Ontario psyche that demands blankets of white fluff on the ground. I’m not so sure… I think maybe winter has lost it’s edge, and is a Lame Duck for this year, and some say the next as well. I hope to be proven wrong.
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