>> > Yeah....and up here in British Columbia, we are crying for snow! The > 2010 Winter Olympics are on, and we have no snow! It had to be trucked > in from 4 - 500 miles away to Vancouver to the different venues on > Cypress Mountain just north of Vancouver. > > Richard, when I met my wife Marie in Toronto in 1947 I used to kid her > about having web feet! Never ever thinking that we would end up living > for more of our lives in BC and as she was born in North Vancouver, I > actually returned her to the place where she was born! So, now over 40 > years of our 62 years together have been spent here in Beautiful > British Columbia!......much nicer than Toronto, where I was born! > > Send you spare snow out this way, please... > > Cheers, > Old Doug in BC > Given the perversity of the weather around here, you KNOW what's gonna happen, don't you Doug? 3 days after the end of the Olympics, a really nasty north-easter will blow in and dump massive amounts of snow. I'm sure you remember the winter of 68-69...like that. sigh Richard