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...and artistic they are!

Beautiful pics, I haven't seen snow like that in years.

This is probably a good time to offer up this old chestnut...

Dear Diary,

Aug. 12 - Moved to our new home in Canada. I am so excited. It's so beautiful here. The mountains are so majestic. Can hardly wait to see them with snow covering them.

Oct. 14 - Canada--it is the most beautiful place on earth. The leaves have turned all colors and shades of red and orange. Went for a ride through the beautiful countryside and saw some deer. They are so graceful. Certainly they are the most wonderful animals on earth. This must be paradise. I love it here!

Nov. 11 - Remembrance Day. Deer season starts soon. I can't imagine anyone wanting to kill such a gorgeous creature. Hope it snows soon. I love it here!

Dec. 2 - It snowed last night. Woke up to find everything blanketed with white. It looks like a postcard. We went outside and cleaned the snow off the steps and shoveled the driveway. We had a snowball fight (I won). When the snow plough came by we had to shovel the driveway again. What a beautiful place. I love Canada!

Dec. 12 - More snow last night. The snow plough did his trick again to the driveway. I love it here.

Dec. 19 - More snow last night. Couldn't get out of the driveway to get to work. It's beautiful here but I'm exhausted from shoveling. F*****g snow plough.

Dec. 22 - More of that white sh!t fell last night. I've got blisters on my hands and a sore back from shoveling. I think the snow plough hides around the corner until I'm done shoveling the driveway. Asshole.

Dec. 25 - Merry F*****g Christmas! More frigging snow. If I ever get my hands on the sonovabitch who drives the snow plough, I swear I'll kill the bastard. Don't know why they don't use more salt on the roads to melt the f*****g ice.

Dec. 27 - More white sh!t last night. Been inside for three days now except for shoveling out the driveway after that snow plough goes through every time. Can't go anywhere, the car's stuck in a mountain of white sh!t and it's so frigging cold. The weatherman says to expect another 10 inches of the sh!t again tonight. Do you know how many shovels full of snow 10 inches is?

Dec. 28 - That f*****g weatherman was wrong. We got 14 inches of the sh!t this time. At this rate it won't melt before summer. The snow plough got stuck up in the road and that bastard came to my door and asked to borrow my shovel. After I told him that I had already broken six shovels shoveling out all the sh!t he had pushed into my driveway, I damn near broke my last one over his f*****g head.

Jan. 4 - Finally got out of the house today. Went to the store to get food and on my way back a damned deer ran in front of the car. Did about $3,000 damage to the car. Those f*****g beasts should be killed. The bastards are everywhere. Wish the hunters had exterminated them all last November.

May 3 - Took the car to the garage in town. Would you believe the thing is rusted out from all that f*****g salt they put all over the roads.

May 10 - Moved to Florida. I can't imagine why anyone in their right mind would ever want to live in Canada.

Oh crap, winter is coming isn't it ?

Well it's not here yet, but it has already snowed in Florida. Yesterday I was out at at the dragstrip, first time ever for late November and it was a balmy 14c/57f.
Our west coast is certainly getting hit though.

Its snowing in Calgary and has been most of the weekend, not much a few inches but it has been around -25C/-14F and right now it is -27C/-17F and windchill of -40C/-40F. Don't you want to come here now?

We're having unseasonably warn weather here in the DC area. Thanksgiving was only in the high 40s, but every day since then has been at or near 60, and we're expecting mid-60s this entire week. Mornings are still frosty, but if I dash to my car in the morning, I can skip my jacket.

Actually I love the cold weather but those temps need a lot of respect. It's certainly a different world from southern Ontario

Yes it is, but as they say it is a dry cold....I don't get it, when its this cold all humidity is gone. We generally are not this cold for this long, been a week so far.

I get a chuckle every time I hear of a weather warning for S. Ontario and the temps are only -18C, but the snowfalls you get are way worse than ours, thanks to those lovely bodies of water nearby.

We had a two month switch this year. Our Octobers are usually sunny and balmy with beautiful fall colors. Novembers are usually cold and gray. We had Novemeber in October, and October in November. Highs in October were often in the 30s and it was cloudy all the time. We had well above normal temp today (in the 60s) with lots of sun, and have been that way most of the month. Highs tomorrow and Wednesday, 63, with more sun. Winter arrives Friday with snow showers. Saturday, high 35 but more sun.

Every day with sun this time of year is pure gravy. November and December are our dark months. It's cold the rest of the winter, but we get more sun than we do in November and December.

The Snow is here to stay in Saskatchewan. About 2 feet on the ground, -25C -40 windchill. Four more months to spring - keeps you going, so does the two weeks in Hawaii in Feb. We hosted the Canadian university national bowl game here on Sat. -21 on the field. Of couse because we are from Saskatchewan half timers with too much booze and too little brains were running around with no shirts. We had a very full drunk tank that night. Time to turn up the the system and force the cold out of the house. Forgot to mention the hollowed out half watermellons on the thier heads - football gods would be impressed.