By the way, this week end is Canadian Thanks giving long week end.
Happy Thanks Giving!
Canadian Thanks Giving is about thanking the harvest all in and having a last big feed before things getting really tough during the long winter, and just on cue winter started in Calgary a few days back. The last few days we had highs of -10 degrees C but apparently it is meant to go back to +10 degrees C this week.
Monday, October 12, 2009
back to ZA
This is it I am going back to Johannesburg tomorrow. I'm pleased that I get to spend the first winter in a warm place. Since the weather turned to cold I am really stiff and sore. I know it is the cold because once I am in the sauna for a while it mostly goes away and if I manage to wear enough warm clothes it does not feel as bad.
It is forcing me to reconsider the original plan to retire in Saskatchewan. But that's my job this year: finding to where I want to retire. I am quite optimistic that I can sort it out in one year while I work.
It is forcing me to reconsider the original plan to retire in Saskatchewan. But that's my job this year: finding to where I want to retire. I am quite optimistic that I can sort it out in one year while I work.
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Snow !!!
First snow in Calgary today.
At one point it snowed heavily enough that you could look at it falling down and feel like you were shooting up like a rocket, up and up and up.
Favourite parts of having snow:
- Feeling like you are going up to the sky when you watch it falling.
- Going out at night and having two shadows in the snow, the blue from the moon and the yellow from city lights. You really only get this in snow, but this time there just isn't enough now to get this. You need both a snow cover on the ground (and the snow is not sticking this time, or at least not yet) and you need a clear sky so the moon shines through.
- The hollow singing sounds it makes when you walk on it when it is very cold
- snow devils you get also when it is very cold and you get very fine flakes caught in the wind at ground level.
- Everthing looks clean
- The chance to wear winter coats (I am a coat person. I have 3 inuit coats that I have somehow gathered over the years, and 2 "old man coats" that I really like too)
At one point it snowed heavily enough that you could look at it falling down and feel like you were shooting up like a rocket, up and up and up.
Favourite parts of having snow:
- Feeling like you are going up to the sky when you watch it falling.
- Going out at night and having two shadows in the snow, the blue from the moon and the yellow from city lights. You really only get this in snow, but this time there just isn't enough now to get this. You need both a snow cover on the ground (and the snow is not sticking this time, or at least not yet) and you need a clear sky so the moon shines through.
- The hollow singing sounds it makes when you walk on it when it is very cold
- snow devils you get also when it is very cold and you get very fine flakes caught in the wind at ground level.
- Everthing looks clean
- The chance to wear winter coats (I am a coat person. I have 3 inuit coats that I have somehow gathered over the years, and 2 "old man coats" that I really like too)
Saturday, October 03, 2009
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