Well it is warming up some, and we had another one of those weird Canadian moments last night when as I climbed into bed I told Julie that the temperature was going up and the forecast was minus 12 tonight. Her response "ooh quite warm then"  we did laugh for a couple of minutes.

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We have always enjoyed the winter time here. Last weekend we sign up for the local x-country ski club $40 for family membership and $20 each for lessons from Jan - March every saturday! I think it works out to about $4 an hour lesson.....  We now have another circle of people to socialise with.

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We were shopping for a present for our new Nephew (David) when someone said "Hello" and it was David Letterman (Fellow Tango Dancer), so David, spoke to David while David was buying a present for David LOL. Anyway it is nice to have people stopping us to talk about how the holidays went etc. Then yesterday as Julie was putting the finishing touches on our Sunday dinner one of our neighbours, Betty called and asked us over for dinner! (we are almost locals)

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Lots of snow over night, forecasted 10-15cm actually landed 30-40cm. Thank god for the snowblower investment. Here is a photo of my trusty snowclearing equipment.

And for those tricky little areas were a whirling set of blades just will not do.

And to top it all off here is one of Kathryn the Bird Feeder