There's cold and then there's COLD!
There was a young man from Quebec,
Who stood buried in snow to his neck.
When they asked, "Is you friz?"
He replied "Yes, I is.
But we don't call this cold in Quebec."
[Vague reference to the befuddled political tangle in Canada, in which the prime minister who is about to get tossed out of power by a Parliamentary vote of no confidence has been granted permission by the queen's own governor general to suspend Parliament for a couple of months while he figures out what to do. This is rather like allowing a US President who faces impeachment to suspend Congress until he's ready to deal with it.]
It's COLD here. Not only did it get down to 7°F last night, but it's headed down to about the same level again tonight. Fired up the woodstove good and hot this evening.
To add to the cold, a gift box arrived yesterday. This rather large box turned out to contain a thick styrofoam cooler inside which there was a huge block of dry ice, the biggest single chunk of CO2 ice I have ever seen. Under the dry ice, when it was lifted very carefully to avoid freeze burns, there were four prime beefsteaks in hermetically sealed packages. Not to worry, we don't look gift cows in the mouth. (If they had been horse, well, it would be very different.) But it does seem a rather extravagant gift even from someone who can afford it.
Who stood buried in snow to his neck.
When they asked, "Is you friz?"
He replied "Yes, I is.
But we don't call this cold in Quebec."
[Vague reference to the befuddled political tangle in Canada, in which the prime minister who is about to get tossed out of power by a Parliamentary vote of no confidence has been granted permission by the queen's own governor general to suspend Parliament for a couple of months while he figures out what to do. This is rather like allowing a US President who faces impeachment to suspend Congress until he's ready to deal with it.]
It's COLD here. Not only did it get down to 7°F last night, but it's headed down to about the same level again tonight. Fired up the woodstove good and hot this evening.
To add to the cold, a gift box arrived yesterday. This rather large box turned out to contain a thick styrofoam cooler inside which there was a huge block of dry ice, the biggest single chunk of CO2 ice I have ever seen. Under the dry ice, when it was lifted very carefully to avoid freeze burns, there were four prime beefsteaks in hermetically sealed packages. Not to worry, we don't look gift cows in the mouth. (If they had been horse, well, it would be very different.) But it does seem a rather extravagant gift even from someone who can afford it.