Wow, actually that’s all I’ve got, wow. I know we’ve gone from 15 one day to 25 the next but that seems normal now compared to your weather!

Its 29 farenheit here today… I hate cold! Its not awful really but im always cold. I have two heaters in my room and 6 blankets on my bed. I really need to be like my grandparents and hit the road for warmer weather when fall comes around lol

Here in NB we’re having a very warm winter. It was 9 C degrees the other day! We had a big snowstorm in November (25 cm of snow) but now it’s all gone and they are saying probably no more snow for Christmas A couple of years ago we had no snow for Christmas for the first time and it was too weird, I didn’t enjoy it at all.

I just want the ground to freeze and a bit of snow. The horses here are all getting mud fever from the wet, warm weather.

Ohh how I miss Alberta. Calgary has a similar “wait 10 minutes” rule. Do you still get the benefits of Chinooks up in Edmonton or are you too far north? I sure miss those!

Here in ND we just got our first bout of snow today all winter. Well, in some other areas of ND they got a big snow fall back in November, but it totally missed the city I live in. Supposed to get about 2 inches over night I think. Since it’s the first real snowfall I still think it’s pretty and lovely. I’m sure in a couple weeks I’ll be sick of it though!

Hey BunnyMuffin, we just drove through/by Grand Forks!

Winnipeg weather is based on the same principle as Alberta – I think they do it to keep us on our toes.
– Annette

That’s cool – what brought you to this neck of the woods? I went to UofW for a couple years for my undergrad, so I know a little bit about Winnipeg winters. Kinda sucks that once the snow comes, it pretty much doesn’t melt until spring. Makes me sad – and very difficult to see around those huge snow banks when driving!

So I thought I liked the cooler weather, but 19 below?!   Carefully Smiley, you’re face might get frozen like that – Literally!

Hey our HIGH for tomorrow is -20C!

BunnyMuffin, we were on a bus passing through on a casino tour. We usually pass through a few times a year by bus, and will likely be driving through sometime in the spring.
– Annette

I would love to live up north for a year to experience one of those winters…..and probably run home with my tail between my freezing legs…lol

Yesterday, here in central Texas we went from 76 degrees to 28 in 12 hours. Explains why everyone’s always sick around here.

We just got through one cold spell (almost -40 Fahrenheit) and we’re headed for another (at least 20 below) by Monday. *ugh!* I miss summer… *sniffle*

Celsius will never cease to confound me. 0_o In school I was drummed with metric, but I just can’t get past English standard. >.< Funny thing is, metric is all based on 10 so it's supposed to be so easy to understand! *sigh*

While my mum-in-law was up here this summer, we went on board the riverboat and in their port store, there is something called “The Forty-Below Experience” where folks who don’t brave the frozen north in winter can have a picture taken in a room that’s kept at that temperature all summer and you can throw a cup of water up in the air and they’ll snap the pic as it’s coming down as ice chips…lolz.

Tourists are a strange lot. ^_^

I remember Shell Oil. I wanted all the pieces to the little Noah’s Ark toy set they offered per fill up many moons ago. ^_^ And they used to give out fancy drinking glasses too…to think we could use those today with gas prices what they are! xD

Hahaha K&K, that sounds like a typical big company problem! We had something similar here at Uni…they designed a beautiful dome building that was meant to have water running downt he edges all the time, however they used average temperatures to determine shrinkage/expansion and in winter it gets cold, really cold some days. Infact some days they noticed that the water was flowing inside the building instead of on the outside.

Now it’s just an ugly squat building made of dull metal with no water cause they couldn’t figure out how to stop it leaking.

*snort* hahaha! ^^ Now there’s a big dome shaped white elephant sitting on the grounds! Could Canberra, the capital of a nation that is having a water crisis, really justify such a building. I mean how much evaporation would occur during summer time?! Given, it would have looked impressive thou….

*more snorting!* You know how on tv sometimes they show footage of “worlds dumbest criminals”….thinking they could do same for some of these engineering efforts!

Not that i’ve never done anything dumb!  Did a doozie tonight in fact. Drove round to sisters place quite late and cut the motor as I pulled into the drive because I didn’t want to wake her kids. Course, then the brakes didn’t work and ended up crashing into tow bar of their car! So much for being quiet!

Okay, here’s a little known Disney engineering fact…

There’s a building at the Disney Studios that’s built to look like those Roman buildings with the goddesses holding up the roof, except on the Disney one they have the seven dwarves holding up the roof. I’ve got pictures at my mom’s place, I’ll have to scan one in. Anyway, sounds cute right? Except when it rains. The dwarves all have these rounded bellies, and when it rains the water down the bellies to where it can collect and then streams off…. end result is that it looks like they’re peeing!
– Annette

Oh dear. 0_0 Dwarves are scary enough, without having to watch them potty in public. 0_o lolz….

When it comes to world’s dumbest, let me take the cake. (No, not the vinegar drinking.) I can identify with the losing control of the car thing. One winter I was pulling into the parking lot of our local store here, and not realizing how nasty the ice was there, skied straight into the front of the building and punched a hole through the foyer. And this after my husband had just rolled our other car, badly. Our insurance was not happy with us.

Needless to say, I didn’t want to go home. 0_o But I think there was the addition of large logs of wood in front of the stores in the area in their parking lots as bumpers after that incident. Too bad they hadn’t thought of it before I smashed that storefront.

Newsflash:

“Crazed woman drives into store front in desperate attempt to get a bag of Good Mews for her bunnez”.

LOL! I’m not even game to drive on wet roads cause I skidded once about a year ago, spun rounda few times and came to rest anout 3m from the edge of ojne of the lakes in Canberra. They ddn’t have any large wood logs or anything as a bumper from the road to the edge of thelake, not even a gutter so I was actually more angry than scared. The lake isn’t that deep anyway, not like I would have drowned, but my car would have been wrecked!

Engineers – when my bf was doing engineering (he got bored & changed degrees) he had to do a project on an engineering distaster and why it happened. When he was deciding which one to do hecried out something like “I can’t decide, there’s so many!” And I then thought, ‘that can’t be good’.