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Waiting for Spring

OK. It’s official. Winter needs to go away. Now. I know I lamented the lack of snow over the December holiday season. I know it’s a stereotypical Canadian thing to have winter. But it’s been so freaking cold for so freaking long that I’m saying “Uncle.”

The groundhog said it was coming soon. I say not soon enough. Spring or global warming, whichever comes first. OK by me.

Supper Down the Pub

There’s nothing better that “Supper down the pub”. It’s happy, cheery, and harkens back to a time when even urban dwellers were social. Friends, pints and a scotch egg served over chips. What’s better than that?

Red Van in Ice Storm

When you lay down the gauntlet to Mother Nature, you had best be prepared to suffer the consequences. This morning Ontario, and much of eastern North America are in the grips of a winter ice storm. Freezing rain, snow, ice, hail; the four outriders of Jack Frost’s posse.

Freezing rain and snowfall warnings covered much of southern Ontario, with most areas expected to receive one or the other - or a combination of both - throughout the day.

The poor weather was giving thousands of school children a day off because of school buses being kept off the roads on southwestern, central and eastern Ontario.

From http://theGlobeandmail.com

Roads are a mess and the police are advising us to stay inside unless we absolutely have to be somewhere. I sit at my kitchen table, enjoying a freshly brewed cup of coffee. Guess I won’t be going anywhere work like today… You win Mother Nature.

Winter Tries to Prove me Wrong

I woke up this morning to snow. White, fluffy, wonderful snow. If yesterday’s post prompted nature to respond with wintry precipitation, then I promise to use the power only for good.

I was, however, disappointed by nature as I drove south to the office in Toronto. Meter by meter, the winter landscape disappeared into the bleak non winter that we have been experiencing. Weather reports say that by the weekend, temperatures will be an unseasonable 10 degrees Celsius, and the brief snow will be no more

Nice try nature. Too little, too late.

Rediscovered Hobby

When I was a lad, I spent a great deal of my time collecting and painting miniture soldiers. I had a Napoleonic and a Medieval army. Hours were invested in painting them. many more hours were spent engaged in “Little Wars”; battles in small scale using miniatures, dice, measuring tapes and a great deal of space in the basement. As I recall it was a great deal of fun.

This Christmas my Number One Son wanted to start his own collection. He and his friends are all hot for “War Hammer 40,000”; a battle game about battles with science fiction armies. The boy and I have been spending all week assembling and painting his force of “Necrons” (robots that look like skeletons). We are spending quality time, and I’m rediscovering an enjoyable boyhood hobby.