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Crocuses are out, grass is starting to grow faster than the deer can eat it!. The last time we saw snow was sometime back in December. This weekend will be 11-12 degrees and yet we still get people back in Europe asking us how we are managing with the Canadian winters! I tell them we just have to deal with it and get on with our daily lives ;)

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It's -14C in Toronto...wind chill takes it to about -20C. Part of Lake Ontario in front of us is frozen. No Crocuses...no green grass...just white and more white. :blink:

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I hate you!

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I hate me too ;)

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Oh! I knew it was colder around the country but wasn't paying too much attention as to how cold!!

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It was -20 at 8 am...-30 if you add in the wind chill. I haven't ventured outside. :D

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I did , it wasn't pretty

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I had to put the bins out. Takes about 30 seconds to walk to the road from the garage. It seemed a lot longer.

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It's a bit nippy, very windy & quite white over here. Cats are refusing to go outside.

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I have 2 words for you. Guess how many F's there are?

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Its 14c here today but its going to get chillier as the weekend progresses. :(

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We appear to be at 18C right now near Golden Ears Bridge in Langley. It's ridiculous. I need another sweater....

I didn't believe the outdoor thermometer so just went to check another one the guys use for concrete testing.

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It's hell out here on the Frontier isn't it? I'm thinking of maybe putting another lump of coal on the fire tomorrow - it is Saturday after all. I should probably think about closing one or two windows as well.:lol:

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You can really go off some people.

Last year, someone on here was talking about the fall colours in July and I hadn't had my summer holiday yet. And now someone else is boasting about the bloody crocus in February. Bastards. The lot of ya! :rofl:

PS, it's been a very mild (touch wood) January and February around these here parts this year. Couple more weeks till the clocks change, then it's almost summer again. ;)

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As per the other the other thread, 50+ cm blizzard expected Sunday.

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Our Camellia is in full bloom. :p

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F.U.C.K you. :sneaky:

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Not quite The Island yet James, but our snow is all gone, normal brown desert has resumed lol it was 12 degrees here today too in The Loops. DH considering summarizing the RV. I say that's tempting fate :eek:

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But it isn't really Canada is it. I mean you can't feel like you are getting the true Canadian experience. I feel sorry for you people out in Southern BC. Ha ha

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:lol:

That's the spirit.

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This is his way of telling us that he has a fully functioning grow-op. Anyone ending their name with an 'E' is obviously a drug dealer.

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It's great here in Southern BC :p

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Its chilly in Ajax

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Why have you posted a picture from down under? ;)

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I don't know why it's upside down. It's not when I click on it lol

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Hope you didn't go in your pyjamas... Lots more snow forecast tonight with seriously chilly temperatures... :nod:

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Have you been spying on me??? ;)

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I guess this pretty much sums the thread up ;)

http://www.kiss1031.ca/files/Vic-Mon...ic-637x358.jpg

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:lol:

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My Magnolia is beginning to flower. Does anyone want a picture of that?!!!

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And you all wonder why all the British Eskimos out East slag off the Westerners
.. smugness is not a good trait:rolleyes:

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Mea Culpa
(But it is lovely)

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BC even made it to Buzzfeed :lol:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/tanyachen/br...pgu#.hdYvOZO3D