Yesterday I heard a weather report on TV: Colder than seasonal on the west coast of Canada, cold on the east coast, extreme cold on the Prairies (minus 30-40), not too bad in Central Canada !!!!!!! Central Canada? The Prairie Dog would have been right on it. Rant time!
Have you ever looked at a map of North America? Some of you might be surprised to learn what major city is the closest to the geographical centre of North America!!! Surprise, surprise.....Winnipeg! Only people from Ontario and Quebec call Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal Central Canada. What unmitigated gall!
I'm channelling the old Prairie Dog here, but, would all you self-centred, navel-gazing, "if you sail west of Thunder Bay you fall off the world" types just curl up and go to sleep. For a hundred years. Until the prince awakens you with a kiss. (Never) Don't you just hate it when they call everything from Manitoba to the Pacific Ocean "the West." If you live west of Thunder Bay you probably do. Lump them all together, they're all the same, anyway.
Reminds me of a world map that a teacher from Australia posted in his classroom with North at the bottom and South at the top. Imagine that. Kinda makes you think, doesn't it? It made me realize that most of the land masses on earth are in the northern hemisphere. I challenge you to take a map of the world and turn it upside down. See where that takes you.
Speaking of groundhogs....well, aren't prairie dogs almost the same as groundhogs? Kissing cousins at least. Today, Feb. 2, is Groundhog Day!!!! I never understood that whole thing. If the groundhog sees his shadow it means six more weeks of winter. Presumably if he can see his shadow it must be a sunny day. So, if it's not a sunny day and he can't see his shadow, does that mean more than six more weeks of winter or less than six more weeks of winter? It's too just too vague for me. Maybe that is the point.
Anyway, the only really important event is the upcoming birth. Grandchild Day, not Groundhog Day. Here is the official countdown to August 10. As of today, February 2, there are 190 days until G. Day. So it's G Day (Grandchild Day) minus 190.
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. ~Patrick Young
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