Norman Bourgault said:
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Florida is really fun to visit in Winter. Very tempting to move down there but I think that I would actually miss the snow and winter sports. Sounds weird but I guess you become attached to the environment you grew up in.
PS. It is really cold up here today.
Norman
Norman, if memory serves you’re in or near Ottawa. I’m in Toronto. Maybe one of these days we’ll get our profiles, our locations, the name of our railroads, our websites, our signatures, the threads we were following, and all that back to the way they were before the website hit all these landmines. If I have the patience.
As far as I’m concerned Canada in February is just too much - I’m afraid I don’t mean that in a good way. It’s probably my age - I’m sure it couldn’t be my advancing wisdom.
I used to get out and ski a lot in the winter, and that sure made it bearable - I’d look forward to the hard powder, etc… or at least that’s what I’d say to people, but basically I would have preferred to relax with a G&T by a pool down there where Joe lives.
Anyway AFAIC I’m getting too old for that skiing tomfoolery anymore I guess, and if I told somebody, “Oh, Canadian weather is fine; you get so you like it.” I’d be lying big time to them and to myself.
Yesterday morning - UNBELIEVABLY cold!! As soon as I stepped outside my eyeballs froze solid in their sockets, my legs turned as stiff as iron rods, and I won’t even begin to describe what happened to my privates. I can’t, because I haven’t even seen them since then.
I just hope they’ll come out to play again by Springtime.
There are one or two good things about our climate up here. For six months of the year it kills all kinds of bugs, completely dea , so we get no tropical insects up here for very long, not even the ones that hitchike up with the bananas, and, althought they tell me Texas’ armadillos are on their way up here - the last I heard they had reached Indiana, so far we have no alligators.
In the summer, however, we do have to watch out for mosquitose the size of alligators. They have, of course, been known to carry off our children, live, in their beaks.
