The cold weather has arrived…the temperatures went from -3 degrees on Friday to -24 on Saturday, -27 on Sunday and the week looks like it will have similar weather every day. The nights are really cold -34 degrees plus wind-chill of -44. So I can now say that this is the coldest that I have ever seen or experienced and I’m not sure what to think about it. Yes it’s cold, and I hate it, but that’s mainly because I don’t have the proper clothing for this type of weather. I told myself that I will invest some money into a nice warm jacket to keep me warm thought this winter. Yesterday Andrew and I took a walk downtown on the way to Church and by the end of the walk, my eyelashes were beginning to get stuck together… that’s because ice formed on them….I took a picture of Andrew on Saturday at -27 degrees when he was shoveling the snow… he looked funny.
Apart from that … my car’s oil is not cooperating with the cold weather, so I can’t drive anywhere… all the cars have to be plugged in for many hours before you decide to leave… and shopping is interesting too. There are plug in spots for cars to keep them warm but they are typically away from the entrance. Another strange sight I have noticed is that people simply don’t turn off their cars when they go shopping. We drove to Wal-Mart and Costco, and larger trucks, and other smaller vehicles just left their cars running while they shopped. I can’t imagine them being in the stores for too long, but you never get to see that in Toronto.
Since we moved to the new house I decided that I will put up some pictures of all my nieces and nephews, because although I get to see some of them on my monthly visits, I still miss them a lot! So I bought some frames from the dollar store and Andrew was kind enough to glue them in packs of five. It actually turned out alright… I call it my “Wall of Home away from Home”
And lastly, I begun cooking for Christmas already... these are my cabbage rolls… I will have to see how they taste on Christmas Eve.. but I think they turned out ok.