Weather here and there

Here....where it's colder than a mother-in-law's heart...

...and there, where they aren't singing songs like "It's a marshmallow world in the winter, when the snow comes to cover the ground...."

I shouldn't poke fun at my American neighbors 'down south' but I grew up in Northern Ontario, where we used to say we had nine months of Winter, two months of bad skiing, and one month of Summer.

Did I mention? I think the next Ice Age is getting started. So if I were you and had some money to invest, I'd put it into companies like Arctic Cat Snowmobiles, instead of ones like Lawn-Boy lawn mowers.

But this theory doesn't hold for the ski developments around here this year. It's a good thing they have artificial snow-making equipment, because there hasn't been a lot of the real thing up there in the hills this winter. And anyone who doubts the climate is changing should take another look at it.