Certainly does appear that we aren't getting a traditional winter, to speak of, here this year. I'll take cold brown grass over six-foot snow drifts any day of the week, thanks.

Oh, we've had a bit of snow - and more cold temperatures are expected next week, but to be able to step outside in the morning and NOT turn into a pillar of ice - you have to like that!

If this keeps up, year after year, Canada may eventually shake off that old image of a nation of igloos and frost-bitten Mounties, becoming known instead as "that place below the arctic, where wheat comes from".

You're welcome, Canada Marketing Board...

Chow for now!