Stoneleigh

I missed seeing your regular, frequent posts over at TOD, and had no idea you had your own TOD Canada! I will be sure to become a regular reader.

5 degrees Farenheit here. Six inches snow.

George in Vermont

Thanks for the vote of confidence George - much appreciated.

It's cold here too, but not much snow yet (ice instead, so some of the woodpile is welded together where the wind blew off the tarp - sigh).

Things are a little slow at TOD:C at the moment, but we're hoping to pick up the pace in the New Year.

Cheers,

Stoneleigh

Yes thanks for making this happen Stoneleigh.
Here on the roof of southern Ontario we have had freezing rain and power outages of up to 3 days and about 30cm of snow in the past week.  It will be melting by Sunday.  Lately we havent had winters we could really play with so I am hoping I can at least get a rink in for the grand kids.
Relaing to some discussion we had here about ice and wind turbines, here is a local newspaper piece on what happened to our local windfarm last Friday.
http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2006/1207/Front_Page/003.html

Thanks again
Don

You're welcome, Don.

Interesting article by the way. If climate change gives us more in the way of icy winters, rather than snowy ones, it could make life difficult for wind power operators. This year the El Nino is supposed to mean a warmer than average winter (read endless freeze/thaw) with more precipitation than average (freezing rain, no doubt). That'll mean fewer opportunities for dog-sledding unfortunately, as it's dangerous on the ice (dog-sledding is like racing cars with the accelerator nailed to the floor). Perhaps I should move to North Bay or Sudbury :)

Cheers,

Stoneleigh