01
19
06

Winter is Here?

I duck out of my home office for a second and step outside to get my mail. Along with a couple of bills there’s a nice-looking flyer for a retirement home (delivered contrary to the large NO FLYERS label on our mailbox). It says “Winter is Here” in bold letters on a background of a snowy winter scene.

I look around.

The sun is shining and the air is warm. Birds chirp in a nearby bush. In our garden weeds are growing happily. Scattered clumps of tulips and daffodils are sprouting.

A large red and black beetle strolls across the sunbaked porch and heads for the flowerbox, where more plants are sprouting. I feel like laying back and getting a tan.

This is southern Ontario on January 19, 2006.

Whatever happened to winter?

5 Responses to “Winter is Here?”
  1. alevo:

    January 19th, 2006 at 5:15 pm

    Stephen Harper’s the anti-christ.

  2. Ade:

    January 19th, 2006 at 10:07 pm

    Ha ha ha ha ha

  3. Ryan:

    January 20th, 2006 at 10:39 am

    Some of our flowers are starting to bud. Our neighbour’s garden is sporting little daffodils that toss their heads gaily in the spring – uh, winter – breeze.

    Who knew winter in southern Ontario would be an early casualty of global warming?

  4. Tim:

    January 20th, 2006 at 6:10 pm

    Paul Martin accidentally sacrificed Stephen Harper on the Stone Table.

    …that is, if anyone else older than 12 saw Narnia.


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