Kevin's Watch

OK, my Canadian Tire money story...

Visiting Ecuador, my wife's home country, and we decide to go to this restaurant an hour outside the capital with about 10 of her family. Beautiful setting in the middle of nowhere, vista of mountains ... beautiful. Great food too!
This restaurants has framed currency from around the world all over thier walls. It's really quite amazing. There must have been at least 50 countries represented on the walls. And some of them were very old currencies. A collector would have a field day.
Anyway, we are the only group in the restaurant at the time, so as we are waiting for our food I wander around the walls. I eventually see two frames showing good ol' Canadian money. One has now extinct one and two dollar bills. The one below it has two Canadian Tire bills: 10 and 25 cents....!
Hilarious.
It has long been Canadian folk-lore how Canadians would convince foreigners that CT money was real and that the colourful guy on the bills was our 3rd Prime-minister Angus McFrugal. ... so the story goes.
Well, there on the wall with all these other distinguished currencies was "Angus" smiling away at the novelty ...

I had to tell the owner. Have no idea if it was taken down (i doubt it). But we shall see next year...

Too funny!

I think we're gonna have a mild winter here in the mid-Atlantic. We made it through November without an ice storm. Usually if we're going to have a rotten winter, we have a bad storm in November. But not always....

I grew up in Northern Indiana, so I don't mind snow. But I've lived in this area long enough that I dread it when it falls here. We don't get enough of it, so people can't handle it. You've got two kinds of drivers in a mid-Atlantic snowstorm: the kind who are petrified at the first whisper of a snowflake and immediately drop their driving speed 20-30 mph, and the Road-Warrior idiots who think anybody who doesn't keep driving 20 mph *above* the speed limit in a blizzard is a weenie.

Usivius : great story, thanks.

the year we moved down here (in November) in snowed on my birthday, that April. and not just a dusting, but good snowman making snow. i miss snow.

wow, I was just joking about snow in texas with my co-worker ...
That would be freaky, eh?
I can understand how it would be frozen in your memory (bad pun)

well the snow on my b-day was in vermont. still unusual for that time of year. it snowed in texas a couple of Christmas' ago. we are not expecting any this year. though they get some on occassion in the panhandle.

So, what's the snow status of fellow Watchers so far? Usivius? Anybody? Is it still a mild winter for many of you? I heard about that storm that hit Washington and the one in Denver. And danlo's town got hit last week with a record snowfall. Winnipeg also got walloped by the white stuff last week. But the city looked gorgeous the day after, under all that snow. Here are some pics I took:

Please send some of it down this way Matrixman.Beautiful pics.

NO SNOW in WI. At least nothing South of Wausau WI. This is becoming more an more common here; a lack of snow that is.

Back in the day, at least until the mid-nineties at least 6-8 inches of standing snow was a virtual certainty by Dec.

Again, NO snow in WI.

Matrixman wrote:So, what's the snow status of fellow Watchers so far? Usivius? Anybody? Is it still a mild winter for many of you? I heard about that storm that hit Washington and the one in Denver. And danlo's town got hit last week with a record snowfall. Winnipeg also got walloped by the white stuff last week. But the city looked gorgeous the day after, under all that snow. Here are some pics I took:

Fell asleep and it was raining, woke up and my brother got to stay home from school!

Isnt snow funderfull?

Olympia is really beautiful when it's covered in snow.

January 10.

Toronto
Ontario
Canada.





Still no snow.

tell me about it...we were supposed to get FLURRIES today...and thn it got too warm, and we got nothin'.

I don't just want snow...damnit..I want some COLD!!!

I was going to teach the boys how to skate this year, but the puddles in the driveway won't even freeze.

We received some more snow yesterday, but today it's sunny and cold. Temperatures are expected to plummet further by tonight. "WinterPeg" is in full swing! (Our polar bears at the zoo will be chillin', but don't know if they'll be doing the cha cha.)

I almost died on my way to work today.

Snow is teh debil. And so are people who don't know how to drive in it.

The average IQ of a person driving in snow (who doesn't know or recall how to) drops by 30 damn points, I sweartogod!

Glad yer OK.

Here in Switzerland this week and it is forecast to be 18C tomorrow!!!!!!!! Went skiing today but we had to make do with artificial snow. still great fun though - only my second ever time skiing. The only ski places open in switz are the ones right at the top of the alps. All sorts of competitions and championships have been cancelled.

The snow here still hasn't melted! It's 50 degrees here today. But we're supposed to drop like a rock and get hit with storms from the Gulf of Alaska AND the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday.

My friend Jared got in a fender-bender on the way home. That lady was so pissed, I thought she was going to tear his head off!

Frickin' Ice.

Snow=Good, Ice=Bad.

Some snow shots from around my house, curtosy of my little brother, Sam.

I got yer snow right here (just behind my house):

Is that a fence or your roof?