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:rofl::rofl::rofl:

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Ha! Just opened a Sol, the perfect beer after a vigorous work out (and walking to the barn with two buckets of water through 3' of snow is certainly a proper work out).

The snow's pretty much stopped here. I guess I'll clear it after lunch and then wait for the next wave.

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I was just looking at the local conditions for Toronto, Peterborough, Kingston and Ottawa.

It appears Ottawa is getting hammered at this time, three straight hours of heavy snow. :eek:

No word from Souvenir, Steve666 or Wannabe.

Edit: 1:00 pm observations now out Ottawa still heavy snow (four hours now) visibility .2km, .1miles:eek::eek:

Further Edit: 2:00 pm now out Ottawa still heavy snow it's now five straight hours. I honestly don't think I've ever seen heavy snow reported for that long a period before.

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The major roads around here are closed for lack of visibility but then they often are, the "road closed" signs are permanent and illuminated as required.

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....and this from the man who is always denigrating the weather in Calgary! HA!! :rofl:

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/CAAB0049 :thumbsup:

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I am pleased to report that the near-crisis is over and, once again, it is a-snowing not in Richmond Hill.

With dextrous application of shovel and blower, Number 2 Son and I have just finished the clean up. Now we are ready for the plows to come along and build metre high walls at the end of the drive.

Oh joy!

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Snow shoved aside. Salmon wonderful. About to venture out on to nominally closed roads to get more diesel for the tractor - you can't run a John Deere without a Beetle to fetch the fuel.

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Good luck with that. I've just got back from the (very short) drive to the Mac's to pick up more smokes....hairy to say the least.

And it's started to snow again.

I'm pleased about the salmon though.

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This snow is serious here in Ottawa...my weekly indoor soccer game here in west end Ottawa (just north of Scotiabank Place) has been cancelled. Never had that happen before.

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We were inspired to try curing salmon by that served at cruikshank's. A trip to the market for salmon, dill and creme fraiche, a bit of rubbing, a lot of waiting and then, wow, divine!

Gas station surprisingly crowded for the roads all being closed. Since they're closed they haven't been ploughed and are as bad as I've driven on. I was glad of the front wheel drive.

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Friend not coming from Ottawa til tomorrow, snow is waist deep there she said. Buses not guaranteed to arrive.

That gives me another day to tidy up, phew

OH is off to shovel snow again, Mr Plow has been by and kindly built fortifications at the end of the drive. The snow heaps are so big the kids are out toboganning on them and its started to snow again.

So I am off to put the beef rib joint in the oven and peel veggies for a roast dinner with yorkshire puds

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It's lucky that Mr666 is under several feet of snow, otherwise I'm sure he'd be on that remark like a ton of bricks.

Do you know the place of origin of your creme fraiche?

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Remarkable how a bit of snow stars gives everyone extra time for gourmandry eh?

That reminds me. What's for dinner? I suppose I'd better start thinking about it.

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I don't know where the cow is I'm afraid, I got it at the Olympic cheese stand at the St Lawrence market, it's in the cabinet opposite the feta.

(I always go to the Olympic because they're very friendly and have been giving my autistic daughter free cheese samples since she was a babe in arms. I expect any of the competing stands can sell you the same thing).

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So here is sunny Guelph after snow Armageddon

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So probably not from France? That's what I've been looking for.

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12 h.p, Electric Start, snow canopy, made short work of those huge drifts.

Main snow not bad, but in Georgian Bay we get high, high winds, and they create terrific snow drifts.

Hopefully by tomorrow, roads will be clear, have to be in the O.R by 7.a.m.

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Nothing serious I hope?

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Probably not. It's not going to be very fraiche by the time it's come from France, is it?

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It's still a snowin here.....lots of fun:thumbsup:, including the icicles in my beard!

(No snotsicles HWP)

Helped to dig out some poor folks who are silly enough not to own a FWD VW Cabriolet!;):rofl:

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We'd been looking for creme fraiche and finally found it here in Montreal under the liberty brand.
http://www.liberte.qc.ca/en/home.ch2
Don't know if it is available everywhere?

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brrrr, looks cold, really cold, but great fun rob. enjoy

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I buy their quark in supermarkets here (SW Ontario) but I've never seen their creme fraiche on sale.

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Are those taken through a window? Get outside, ye big jesse :p

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Not too cold by Canadian standards - only -7 C :ohmy::D

(that's minus seven degrees celsius)

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Centigrade, innit?

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I had just come in from 45 minutes of shovelling the driveway and sidewalk I'll have you know missy! :frown:

Now I'll have to go out and do it again this evening. :(

Anyway: Quark - you'll find that next to the Bosons and Musons will you not? :p

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that makes me feel better, its been minus 5 here in essex so not much difference, if i could only see some snow then i could imagine i was there:p

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nope Celcius is the S.I unit of temp.

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Oh Zoe help explain, you know from this stuff!:confused::o

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Here's some of the snow I took off the driveway today. It's a fair bit but, tbh, this wasn't the worst snowfall of the week, nevermind the era.

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Wow, that some pile of the white stuff!

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I'll bow to Novo, if he'll comment, as I'm a fahrenheit man myself, but this:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...4/ai_n16642818

indicates that "celcius" is some neo-fad term for Centigrade.

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Luckily, I have a FWD New Beetle to blast through it!

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Nothing to explain , you were right.

Celcius and Centigrade temp scales are effectively the same thing, short story is that Centigrade was renamed in honour of Celcius for the work he did in the field of thermodynamics. Long story is boring and tedios and is no doubt on wikipedia :)

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That's muons, bozo :sneaky:

I've no idea what celcius is. Celsius on the other hand is synonymous with centrigrade. Whoever said that Celsius is the SI scale for temperature, may have forgotten about Kelvin.

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I like quarks meself, if we are talking particles

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Amazing - even the word thermodynamics brings me out in a cold sweat!

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Never worked that one out really, thought the whole point of sweat was that it was cold. Or is it that you are cold, but sweat? In which case lay off the chilli.

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Up or Down? Or possibly Strange?