BS: Snow in Canada?????

Subject: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 08:13 AM

According to our local news station, parts of Canada got 3" of snow last night. Tell me it isn't so, gnu!

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From: bobad
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 08:55 AM

Snow dusts western Labrador

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From: Mooh
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 09:26 AM

Spent the summer of '75 in northern Ontario planting trees and such. Woke up one morning in a floorless tent with snow drifting around. Kinda uncomfortable given that I was sleeping on the ground. Thank goodness for the down sleeping bag. By midday it was shirtsleeve, mosquito and blackfly weather again. What fun.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: Charmion
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 09:42 AM

Wednesday's night-time low in Ottawa was 6 degrees Celsius and last night was 7. I brought the orchids in on Tuesday, and today I'm wearing a fleece. We could get another heat wave before the equinox, but hot nights (that's temperature, people) are over for this year in the Ottawa Valley.

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: gnu
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 09:45 AM

Had the air conditioners at full tilt on Wednesdat PM...

Forecast : Tonight Clear. Low plus 5 with risk of frost.

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From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 10:02 AM

Hot nights are over, eh? Poor Edmund.

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From: open mike
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 10:10 AM

no wonder the canada geese are in northern calif and elsewhere

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From: Jamming With Ollie Beak (inactive)
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 10:17 AM

I'm currently vacationing in Canada (my home country) and it was a balmy 8 degrees celsius, over-night in Brandon, Manitoba, the sun's up and shining like a bugger right at this moment (9:18am CST)

Charlotte Olivia Robertson (Ms)
uppity "Indian" chick

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: bobad
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 10:20 AM

We had 3.5°C here (1 hr. south east of Ottawa) yesterday AM.

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From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 10:31 AM

The first weekend in August it snowed in the Big and Little Lost River National Forests areas here in Idaho. Nothing like driving along, seeing mountain peaks covered with new snow, in early August....

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 10:35 AM

ARGHHH!!! If there's anything I can't stand, it's this damned global cooling!

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 12:04 PM

Just wondering, Mrs Beak, do you "vacation" when you are that side of teh pond, and "holiday" when you are in blighty?

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 12:31 PM

Hey,it must be a portent of a bad winter setting in as we've got loads of migrant geese arrrived last week and continuing on Orkney. They don't normally arrive until a bit later. (Just to cheer you up !)

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: pdq
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 12:38 PM

Just minutes ago, I saw about 100 Canada Geese flying in their famous "flying wedge formation", heading south.

August 28th seems a bit early.

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: gnu
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 12:48 PM

It depends where they winter. They may make a number of stops along the way and may spend a week of more in one spot... they ARE Canada Geese and, as such, not in any particular rush.

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: Jamming With Ollie Beak (inactive)
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 12:52 PM

"Just wondering, Mrs Beak, do you "vacation" when you are that side of teh pond, and "holiday" when you are in blighty?"
- Richard Bridge

Yes, Richard, I'm bi-lingual: English English and Canadian English *LOL*

I now reside...somewhere in England (as they used to say during Woorld War II) but am here in Canada for at least a couple more weeks, packing the rest of my stuff, to ship to England.

Charlotte Olivia Robertson (Ms)
uppity "Indian" chick

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: pdq
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 12:55 PM

I just thought of something.

The Canada Goose is the perfect Liberal bird.

It lives happily in Socialist Canada in the summer, shits on the US all the way from border to border on its way to a warm carefee winter Mexico.

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: Cool Beans
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 01:05 PM

Of course, where I live (Detroit) Canada is directly south. You can look it up. It was a balmy 60 (Fahrenhent) this morning. That's about what? 14 in Canadian? Everything sounds colder in Canadian. I go across the river from Detroit to Windsor, Ont., I have to put a sweater on.

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: Mooh
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 01:19 PM

From southwestern Ontario...Actually slept with the duvet over us last night, though the bedroom window was open. Very few sweaty nights this summer (now, now, there'll be none of that!). I hope the snow is late this year as I have to bicycle more 'cause the bride has been transferred to a commuting job...Not that I mind bicycling, it's just tricky running errands in snow.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: gnu
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 02:24 PM

pdq... hahahahahahahah hehehehehee... good one!

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: gnu
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 02:30 PM

Back in 78, our survey crew had a snowball fight in Nain, Labrador on July 26. The weather was warn, but there was still lots of snow around. We would have been in shorts and wearing no shirts if the stouts (big nasty kinda "horsefly") hadn't been so bad.

In the late 90s, I was in Twillingate, NF on Aug 4 and there was a wet snow falling, but it was due to all the icebergs off shore.

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 03:35 PM

Frost in some localities in Alberta.
I remember one year when the ground was frozen in Calgary by Sept. 15.
Label me a suporter of global warming.

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 04:54 PM

Fah! Wimps up north just can't take it. Why, I remember when it -75F here -- last winter it was -- and the wind was so fierce it cut people right in two. Traffic cops had to wear suits of armor, which of course froze solid and we didn't get 'em thawed out 'til Spring. And that was the high temperature of the winter. Low for last winter was -234.38 x 10^26K. Why, at that temperature even I had to put on a light jacket!

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: gnu
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 05:20 PM

Rap... stop eating your ice cream so fast... yer gettin brain frazzle.

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From: Peace
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 05:37 PM

About 20 years back on August 8 it snowed in south-central Alberta. About 3-4". I was up watering tomatoes at 2:30 AM. Joy.

"Check the balls on that big collie
Tra-la-la-la-la la-la-la-la"

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: gnu
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 05:53 PM

If it was that cold, would it not be Fall-la-la-la-la?

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From: 3refs
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 06:07 PM

Not too cold in Orillia last night, but apparently it got down to +3 in Barrie!

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From: Peace
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 06:32 PM

What I woke up to.

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From: gnu
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 06:34 PM

That ain't ALberta! There ain't no machines parked on the roof.

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From: Peace
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 06:35 PM

LOL

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From: artbrooks
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 07:42 PM

It was cold here, too. I had to put on a light blanket, and even considered closing the window a bit.

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From: Peace
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 07:52 PM

LOL again. Good one, Art.

Snow's just part of the price we pay to live in this country. It's a small price despite the amount we bitch and complain about 'the fluffy white stuff'.

As a kid it made me a good dollar or so after a big snowfall--not much by today's standards, but jujubes were four for a penny in those days. I was never allowed to take money from Mrs Beaumont: I did once but my grandmother made me take it back. She explained Mrs Beaumont's economic circumstances and returning the dime wasn't at all hard to do. I cleared her walkway for years after that and every now and then she'd give me a small bag of fresh-baked cookies. Man, they were good. She was a nice lady.

It's early to be thinking about winter just yet, but the nights have been chilly. I expect we'll have a fairly cool August, chilly September, warm October and freezing-ass cold November to March. But, I've been wrong before.

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From: gnu
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 08:03 PM

Hehehehe... I had to go give money back too. But the old girl slipped it back into my pocket and said for me to be quiet. When I got back, Mum made me turn out my pockets... busted. She marched me right back over and I had to apologize, whereupon I learned a great lesson. The old girl apologized to my mum. They became good friends.

Worth a lot more than money.

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 08:03 PM

Some USA weather records, pick your year or month:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wext0.htm

For August 09:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wext.htm

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: gnu
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 08:11 PM

Oh.... I should clarify a bit... that was a while before I was shovelling or mowing or trimming... that was for a pair of chickens I caught after they escaped from the pens on the transport truck that delivered to the chicken plant. I was 9 years old and I did not think of the chickens as "stolen" but rather as "free range".

Hey... they were across the street and in the alders. Free enough for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: Peace
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 08:33 PM

I understand.

Gnu, you remind me of my best friend back then. He had a great sense of humour and we managed to avoid the law on numerous occasions. However, we were tired of being 'poor'. We wanted to live in a better part of town. In the-then Montreal, that meant Westmount. We went there and got our hands on some "free range" street signs, mounted two of them on our street and got in all kinds of trouble for our efforts at 'urban upgrading'.

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From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 09:25 PM

Downtown Pocatello, yesterday afternoon. The Library is the big building on the right with the people standing around outside discussing Global Warming.

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: Peace
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 09:30 PM

Man, you guys and gals are sure on the ball today. I've had about ten really good laughs and that may be a record.

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From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 09:34 PM

I blame it on Sears. The bastards sent me a Christmas Wish Book two weeks ago.

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From: JennieG
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 04:20 AM

Geez.......Himself and I are visiting Tronna in October. We were there in Sep-Oct 2007 and nearly melted, 32 degrees C with high humidity was a bit much for this little Ozzie wombat. I believe this summer has been cool and wet, so perhaps we may not have the hot weather we had last time.

Cheers
JennieG.......38 days to go until we hit Tronna

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: Peter T.
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 05:27 PM

We will lose the lovely cold winters soon enough, one should enjoy them, they won't come again when they go -- at least not for 5000 years or so.....

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 07:20 PM

Not too many days ago I was wearing as little as possible and all the fans I have were on. Currently, it's not snowing here and I'm not in Canada, but I'm wearing fleece and socks, my windows are closed, the space heater in my bedroom is on, and I'm have some pre-traumatic stress about winter when I'll be numb for three months or six months or however long it's going to last.

And in defiance, I'm eating ice cream.

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: Peace
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 07:24 PM

Got warm last night and it now looks like this.

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From: Jeri
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 07:32 PM

I think that sky might make it worth the cold.
Maybe not so much for the sled dogs. I don't know if they can swim in those harnesses.

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From: Peace
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 07:37 PM

My sled dog yesterday.

My sled dog today.

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: ragdall
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 09:22 PM


From: pdq Date: 28 Aug 09 - 12:55 PM

I just thought of something.

The Canada Goose is the perfect Liberal bird.

It lives happily in Socialist Canada in the summer, shits on the US all the way from border to border on its way to a warm carefee winter Mexico.

pdq, that really had me LMAO.

A couple of nights ago it was 2ºC here, (North Central BC), and birds seem to be on the move southwards. My garden was filled with birds on Wednesday.

Today it's 22ºC. If it stays clear tonight, it could get close to freezing. One of the joys of living in N. Canada.

rags

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From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 09:43 PM

My sled dogs playing with the neighbor's cats.

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From: Alice
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 11:09 PM

Even if it doesn't snow in town, we see snow around us.

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From: gnu
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 05:23 AM

Beautiful pics yet again, Rags.

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From: ragdall
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 06:19 PM

gnu,
Ta. You're always very kind.

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From: gnu
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 07:06 PM

Bullshit. Politely, Rags. Your photography is nothing short of amazing. Anyone who has followed it would agree, I am sure.

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From: gnu
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 07:10 PM

I did mean that politely... sigh... I always think people know me and where I come from even tho they don't.... sorry.

I should have said... Rags... don't be so stunned as me arse lass... yer pics are fookin awesome!

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From: gnu
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 07:11 PM

I hope that clarified my position on the matter.

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From: Peace
Date: 30 Aug 09 - 07:11 PM

Beautiful shots, Rags.

I think birds end up with the greatest names. Is there an orange-breasted double-vested nuthatch in there? Or something close to that?

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From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 09:35 AM

I used to know a rosy-breasted ball breaker, Bruce.

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From: gnu
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 09:58 AM

Any relation to the Driveya Nuthatch?

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From: pdq
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 09:58 AM

More likely a red headed double breasted bed trasher.

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From: Ed T
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 10:35 PM

I cleaned the path from the road to the house yesterday, but it filled in again today.

http://www.clasohm.com/photodb/photo?photo_id=5702

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From: gnu
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 10:39 PM

Where be Ed T?

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From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 08:03 AM

Amazing shots of the wasps nests. A shame they had to go.

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From: maeve
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 08:32 AM

I particularly love your bird photographs, Rags.

maeve

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From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 09:00 AM

The doorbell rang around 2 a.m.

It was the glacier, asking me to pardon the noise as it swept past. So polite....

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: Ed T
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 08:16 PM

Last Month, the snow was so deep that I had to cram in my shotgun and shoot it out the chimney.

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From: Ed T
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 08:17 PM

Last Month, the snow was so deep that I had to crap in my shotgun and shoot it out the chimney. (what a difference a letter makes)

Subject: RE: BS: Snow in Canada?????
From: Peace
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 08:22 PM

He means it I think . . . .

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From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Sep 09 - 08:48 AM

The snow was spotty here last night. I forgot to bring in my double barreled 28 gauge shotgun and this morning found one of the barrels full of snow.