Yesterday morning, the local weatherman welcomed me to -16 (did you see that MINUS sign, my tropical friends?), that, thanks … More
Tag: winter
The Silence of the Snow
I woke this morning with a wave of melancholy washing over me. It wasn’t so much because of the arctic … More
Rare Finds #2
When you embark on an underground archaeological excavation in the thick of a deep freeze, there’s no telling what surprising … More
Rare Finds #1
During the ongoing hibernation period most closely associated with the northern hemisphere’s perpetual freeze-thaw-refreeze, certain items have been sighted throughout … More
Just Chillin’
When the sun rises, cuts a glare right through a haze-filled halo, and fans its rays out over a shiny … More
Chilly With A Chance of Teardrops
After many days of hibernation, today seemed promising: for the first time, the outside thermometer registered in the above zero … More
Winchil (aka The Deep Freeze)
There will be no pictures today, dear readers. Everything has frozen up here in the less-than-great white north. My toes … More
Wherever, Together
‘Twas the day before Christmas And into the house Descended 9 more people … hence no room for a mouse. … More
A Midwinter Night’s Steam
How else to beat the winter chills than to indulge in an Epsom-salted bath? Which was exactly the antidote I … More