13 December 2009

Baby it's cold outside

It’s been a cold approach to Christmas, with a few days below -20. Mostly it’s been around -10. The sea-ice is coming and there’s snow on the ground.

Today we went sledding. The boys got rugged up and off we went to the hill near the beach.

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Some kids were testing out the strength of the ice down the beach, Good luck to them. I’ll wait until I see lots of heavy people and vehicles on the ice before I trust it.

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The sledding hill still needs more snow, but you can find some good spots.

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It’s the darkest time of the year and the sun was going down around 4. It was never very high, even at noon.

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The swimming spot has a ripple-making device to stop the water from freezing, for the winter swimmers. While we passed, someone went for a swim. On purpose.

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