The big snow storm this week cured our cabin fever! It seems the effort of digging out forced us back to life and now we are rejuvenated, if sore.
The weathermen are saying there is snow on the ground in 49 of the 50 states. Only Hawaii is left out of the loop and I feel sorry for them. Don't they have a mountain high enough to have a snow covered peak? Of course, they are actually volcanoes, so I guess snow might have a hard time sticking to the active ones...
The Olympics in Vancouver are in desperate need of snow, I hear. They are feeling the effects of El Nino, so the temperatures are in the 50s. Oh boy.
But the worst news from the Olympics is the death of a 21 year-old luge rider. How tragic. I know it is a dangerous sport but I'm sure his family expected he'd be coming home to them after the games. There is a lot of talk on television and the Internet that the luge hill was too tall, too fast and too open and I guess that debate will continue at least through the end of the winter Olympics. And all this has happened even before the opening of the games, which is tonight.
I can't remember any other recent deaths at the Olympics, although there may have been some. There was that horrible year in Germany when terrorists attacked and several athletes were killed. That was long before we had any terrorism on our soil but we should have known then that it can happen anywhere.
I do wish Canada could have some of the cold weather and snow we've had, or better yet, some of it that hit the southern states that NEVER get snow. They would gladly donate.
The weathermen are saying there is snow on the ground in 49 of the 50 states. Only Hawaii is left out of the loop and I feel sorry for them. Don't they have a mountain high enough to have a snow covered peak? Of course, they are actually volcanoes, so I guess snow might have a hard time sticking to the active ones...
The Olympics in Vancouver are in desperate need of snow, I hear. They are feeling the effects of El Nino, so the temperatures are in the 50s. Oh boy.
But the worst news from the Olympics is the death of a 21 year-old luge rider. How tragic. I know it is a dangerous sport but I'm sure his family expected he'd be coming home to them after the games. There is a lot of talk on television and the Internet that the luge hill was too tall, too fast and too open and I guess that debate will continue at least through the end of the winter Olympics. And all this has happened even before the opening of the games, which is tonight.
I can't remember any other recent deaths at the Olympics, although there may have been some. There was that horrible year in Germany when terrorists attacked and several athletes were killed. That was long before we had any terrorism on our soil but we should have known then that it can happen anywhere.
I do wish Canada could have some of the cold weather and snow we've had, or better yet, some of it that hit the southern states that NEVER get snow. They would gladly donate.
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