Good ole Bailey is such a good sport being *short-haired* ....I love his reindeer leaping! Our Lab does this looking for his tennis ball to fetch....which he invariably looses until spring melt.
Thank you! I love the video!
Posted on 12/12/2015 7:40:51 PM PST by Libloather
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How do locals deal with the extreme cold? "Russki chai, literally Russian tea, which is their word for vodka," Chapple told the Weather Channel.
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My touque is off to you. Perhaps five years ago I was crossing over at Detroit, and there was a detour from the interstate that took us through all sorts of interesting neighborhoods. We now drive through Sarnia when headed south.
Where do you live?
He’s an avid outdoorsman and is a building contractor. He never felt the cold until a couple of years ago.
I’m sure the substance is accurate, but details can sometimes grow for effect.
I have an ancestor on that side that was nearly hung as a spy (in Missouri) during the recent unpleasantness between the states, but told those about to hang him that they would have the welfare of his 10 kids on their consciences...while most of the details of the story have become remarkably consistent, what side he was spying for has varied.
Another good story from that side has to do with a feud that ended with part of the family migrating from Missouri to Oregon (though not the part that I’m descended from). Whether the feud was over a woman or a pig is a point of contention, though, to quote one of my great uncles, knowing our family, it almost certainly was the pig.
Detroit is a fine town, and coming back (despite what one reads in the press). It covers what, 170 sq. miles? Yeah, there are rough spots. It’s why the rest of us are armed to the teeth.
Oh, and once they build the new bridge . . . you won’t have to divert north.
I deliberately retired to to this place BECAUSE it gets colder than a well diggers ass up here in the winter.
KEEPS THE RIFF-RAFF out.
That is one thing that I like about Canada, and even more so about rural Canada. I suspect that most of the 15,000 Syrains that Trudeau is looking to bring in will end up leaving.
We’re far enough North that it doesn’t make a huge difference—and at least a chunk of the time there is a side-trip to Grand Rapids on the way to (or from) Ohio. I’m not much for cities (we’re in a town of 1200, and you have to drive 45 minutes to see a stoplight); being in Canada, and married to a Canadian who has somewhat irrational ideas about guns, I’m not armed to the teeth; and I don’t know Detroit. Unless you want to ride shotgun, I think I’ll pass for at least the next decade.
Go Habs.
I was out and about tonight, running errands in a t shirt with an unbuttoned long sleeve shirt over it. Snowing, maybe 25 or so, didn’t bother to check. Only reason I wore the longer shirt was to conceal the Glock on my hip. Wasn’t all just dashing from car to store either. Stopped and helped dig out and push out a couple of stuck motorists too. I did put on gloves for that.
Yup. If its not too long outside.
We beat you a couple of days ago, but we're smart enough to know that your goaltender is out because of injury.
Good ole Bailey is such a good sport being *short-haired* ....I love his reindeer leaping! Our Lab does this looking for his tennis ball to fetch....which he invariably looses until spring melt.
Thank you! I love the video!
Glad to hear you have indoor.
Neither of my grandparents had it and it could be tedious. As I kid, sometimes I held it late in the evening so I could use the honey pot, which they called “slop jar.” Honey pot sounds more refined though.
Coming from Oregon, I’m amazed at how hockey adept Canada is—but there isn’t much else to do up here during the winters other than drink and have kids (I’ve got six), as the French Canadians discovered long ago. I teach at a podunck liberal arts school (enrolment slightly over 100), and the guys play pick-up hockey every Friday. One of them, who is about an average player, had a chance to spend a semester at Oxford last winter, and he was immediately recruited to play for the Oxford Varsity team (which is about half Canadians), and he was also about an average player on the Oxford team.
His father, who is a lawyer, noted that the degree of casualness in establishing him as qualified to join the team would never be tolerated in Canada for any team with players over the age of about six.
Glad to hear you have indoor.
But if you don’t have indoor, it doesn’t matter so much if you go away for a few days when it is well south of zero.
when I was a kid we could not afford to heat our whole house during the winter out side it would be -30 and in the back end of our house the temp would be 20 degrees. at night I slept under a feather filled quilt in long underwear. my next days clothing would be in bed with me so I would not freeze in the morning when I dressed. if I left a glass of water by the bed it would be frozen in the morning...when I got up in the morning it was dress as fast as I could so I could get to the front part of the house where we had a nice toasty fire going in the fire place and the room was a nice toasty 70 degrees.
For those who do not want to click through all of pictures.
http://www.businessinsider.com/images-from-the-coldest-place-on-earth-2015-12
Thanks.
Much better than their stupid JavaScript slide show!
At least, at -40 you don't have to worry about °F vs °C.
And by the time you get to -50°C, you are at that odd number cited in the article, -58°F.
After -40, it is, at least in my books, really cold and time to stay indoors, however you want to measure. it. You make a good point about -58—I’d been wondering why that number was so significant.
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