Just a thread for the first person who has snow land on their house! Being in Calgary we are in with a high chance of being first on this!

Well, I think Winnipeg has you beat......I heard from a friend living there, that they've already had a small sprinkling of snow!!!!!

Its the Bank holiday here in the UK and its raining !!!!!!!!! Does that count? lol


Karen

yep August 18th, been a cool summer

Guess hockey season for the kids will be starting soon - or maybe it's already started?

Already been out shopping for new hockey gear - try outs start in the next two weeks.

Bye-bye to free weekends for six months

Oh I remember those cold mornings at the arena and late nights.....and the stupid parents who always thought their son was better and the shouting and cheering to the point you couldn't hear yourself think....Have a good six months, I will be thinking of you!!!

Well it's important that you're kept busy.....imagine the "things" you could get "into" with too much time on your hands...........

But when you are at the carnival up in Nottinghill and surroundings, you don't notice the rain, we have grown to love the rain anyway, so it doesn't bother us brits that much

I miss all that razmattaz at the carnival anyway.

Speak for yourself - I hate the rain!

Mrs G

....sorry not here....hee hee, it was 27 degrees today!

JJ

Warm up camps are on the way.

But fortunately never taught the kids to skate so the play Soccer.

Very strategic move on the parents' part....no cold rinks or having to be outside in the winter for you.

Hard to play soccer in 5ft of snow!!!!!!

Smart thinking!!!!

Although, now that I think about it....I can remember playing "dodge ball" in the snow at school.in school uniforms yet....not 5ft of course.....boy were we stupid!!!!

You and me both. My boys start on Sunday...6.00am...aggggggghhhhh

Same arena??

The fun in Calgary starts when one is on the ice here and another has to be on the ice in somewhere like High River 15 minutes later.

Soccer & basball in Calgary are at a dumb time of year - April to June - that's spring in the rest of Canada, in Calgary it just means we get really unpredictable weather. The worst of the snow is past, but we might get the odd dump of snow and it gets rainy. We had too many t-ball and soccer games called off due to snow or even worse had to sit in the peeing rain to even bother registering this year.

Hockey does tie you up for the winter, but it's better than sitting inside looking at the snow. We're looking at a house by a lake so the kids have got "free" access to ice in the winter - I didn't even consider that one when we first came to Canada.

Anyway, Canadians can't coach soccer