It’s been spring here the past few weeks, and I have to say – it’s delightful!

Uncharacteristic for Canada in January, we’ve had daily temperature well above zero, and I think I’m even starting to see new blooms popping up in our flowerbed! I’ll be darned if I can’t hear awakening bear yawns while I sit on my verandah at night, and whittle as I whistle! Of course, that could just be Mrs. that Dan Guy's reaction to our chili dinners...

A person could get used to this. Sure, I’ve got designer parkas in three different colours, long underwear thick enough to stop a bullet, and an inborn desire to ice skate on frozen ponds just like any other crazy Canuck – but if a bit of well-timed seasonal global warming defrosts a month or two here in the continental drift we normally refer to our friends and neighbours as “colder than a meat-locker in Siberia” – who am I to complain?

Think of all the money we’ll save not flying off to Florida, or Hawaii! Why bother, when I can work up a healthy sweat mowing my Canadian lawn – in January!!

Ohh la la!!

Keep it comin’, Mother Nature!

Chow for now!!