What a difference a year makes

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 9:07 am

December 25, 2015 birds were still on free range.... oh the memories....

December 15, 2016 birds tucked in for the winter...

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 9:27 am

A balmy 8 degress last Christmas.

I remember freezing rain and snapping cold and almost snowless but not warm like that.
That is up here in the Ottawa Valley eh!

I remember trying to go to church as a teen (1990?) and out of four vehicles in the yard: 84 vw, 79 Boneville, 88 Chev S10 and 72 Ford F150; only the old Ford with the 300ci inline 6 would start.

kenya · Post by **kenya** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 9:31 am

Ahhhh I'd already forgotten it was so nice last year. Yeah we have lots of snow here this year, it's already a struggle just walking back to the barn.

Happy · Post by **Happy** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 9:39 am

I would take that green grass all year round! I'm a horrible Canadian. I hate snow, cold, hockey and I'm not too fond of maple syrup lol. I should be stripped of my citizenship and deported!
Not helping that hubby and I both caught a brutal cold on the plane, I've been up since 4am and had to haul wood in through a foot of snow carrying a flashlight at 5 because we both put it off last night. Yep gimme green all year long...

kenya · Post by **kenya** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 9:47 am

Well I like the looks of the snow, not the cold temperatures that comes with it nor the shoveling, cleaning off the car, iced up waterers, trudging through it. Ha! Ha! Happy I think I'm with you! I don't like hockey either but I do like maple syrup!

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 10:16 am

HAHA last year I planted a Saskatoon berry and some blueberry bushes just a few days before xmas. while diggin the hole for the Saskatoon it filled with water. LOL. YUP the ground is frozen solid here now!

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 11:47 am

Happy wrote:QR_BBPOST I would take that green grass all year round! I'm a horrible Canadian. I hate snow, cold, hockey and I'm not too fond of maple syrup lol. I should be stripped of my citizenship and deported!
Not helping that hubby and I both caught a brutal cold on the plane, I've been up since 4am and had to haul wood in through a foot of snow carrying a flashlight at 5 because we both put it off last night. Yep gimme green all year long...

You're near Wasaga beach and complain about winter? You might get more (lake effect) snow than any of us and you live there? Get a snowmobile, or go skiing, you are beside some great places! Instead of sitting inside whining go out and play! Ice fish (in a hut), snowshoe, ski, instead of sitting around watching Dr Phil and the other crap on tv! Do like the Swedes and bring a flask of warm spiced wine. You can't appreciate the heat without the cold!

I know a guy that moved here from the Netherlands and he loves it here: instead of cold, damp and rain he can now play outside.

Happy · Post by **Happy** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 11:54 am

Yes we get lots of snow. But this is where family is and although some days I wonder why, I can't move away from them.
And for the record I wasn't whining and I don't watch TV. I've done the skiing, snowmobiling, snow shoeing, ice fishing thing. Not a fan. To each their own!

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 12:03 pm

:Shark: snap!

Happy, at least you know what you like.

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 1:26 pm

Happy wrote:QR_BBPOST I would take that green grass all year round! I'm a horrible Canadian. I hate snow, cold, hockey and I'm not too fond of maple syrup lol. I should be stripped of my citizenship and deported!

Feel totally the same about both hockey and maple syrup, I would take snow from December 24th to end of January, just for decorative purposes and because without winter the apple trees wouldn't be happy,and too many bugs would survive, but rest of the year let it be Spring Summer and Fall ! :)