AHah.. I'm with M2D Other than that... Sledding?! uh... hmm.. yeah... yeah that pretty much covers it.
What's there to do in winter, JoeCool? As the Zen master said when asked the secret of life: "In summer sweat; in winter shiver." Really, I thought you canooks used those long, dark, cold Canadian nights to train your pet beavers to cut firewood, chew raw caribou hides to make muk-luks and run your traplines behind sled-dogs. I guess you have sex once in awhile because your population has remained stable, if not completely rational. Eh, comme se, comme sa. Just funning with you (I don't know how to insert those smiley-icons, or whatever they're called).
snowboard/ski, i like taking walks in the winter, everything seems so much more silent and peaceful in the winter.
Well, winter is a-coming-in to us Yankees too. I live 50 miles west of Philadelphia and in my 58 years have seen -20 several times, 5' snow-falls (back in 1958) and months where it never got above 20-- and this is high-humidity, snowy, icy, weather because we aren't too far from the Atlantic Ocean. Some times, great whites swim up the Delaware River, turn left at the Schuylkill River and come 50 miles upstream to Reading, Pa where we harpoon the pricks. If it wouldn't be for the sharks, we'd have beavers, too! Would it be too much to ask if maybe one of you would send a breeding pair of beavers down here in a steel-crate so I can stock them in my 3' creek---I always wanted a 100 acre pond.? I'll send you, in graditude, in fair trade, in true respect and un-dying love, a shipping crate approximately the size of a tractor-trailer filled--NAY! JAMPACKED! with man's finest and most obedient friend's: a humogonous load of well-trained pussycats! Some are striped, some are grey, some are black and every worthless goddamn one of them thinks the ancient Egyptians are still kicking ass along the Nile and worshipping them. Hah! Next stop: the animal soul pool. J
wow, you're really stuck on this beaver hang-up arn't you? hehe anyways, what to do in winter? just dress warm then the only question is what CAN'T you do in winter, I mean for fucks sake you can walk on water!!! tobagganing, ski/snowboarding, snowforts, snowfights, snowmen,snowshoing, cross-country skiing, skating at the local outdoor rink and of course SHINNY!!! Shinny, the informal, pure, grass roots, divinely inspired form of hockey, is best played on a frozen pond, with good friends and a case of beer. Garbage cans make the best nets, no goalies or protective equip needed. Teams are picked by throwing all sticks into a pile and then at random tossing them into two piles, voila, no fuss, no muss, no feelings hurt, no skill level needed, just good, COLD, clean fun
there is always Bumper Shining. Anyone else do it as a kid? (Slide along the road hanging onto a car's bumper)
Yeah, yovo, I got a thing about beavers. I wanted to be a mountain man when I was young but we never had beavers to trap (in PA then, they only lived in the mountains 150 miles away. Now, they're moving in down here-- in Hopewell Park only 3 miles away there are some, but the park rangers won't let me trap them. I just want two-- get one mounted and get one tanned so I can hang it's pelt on the wall. Beavers are a symbol of our country's past.
so let me get this straight, the beavers are just now starting to make a come back in your area and the first thing you can think to do is stuff 'em and tan 'em? silly park rangers, what are they thinking yes, they are symbols, symbols best viewed in thier natural environment
If you can't find an enjoyable winter sport in Canada, maybe you should move to yankee-land. Snowboarding/Skiing is so much fun. I'm gonna cross-country ski a lot more this year, I'm determined. It's pretty much the best work-out you can get, and you're never cold when doing it cause you're burning so much energy. Also, you can find someone with a hot-tub, and sit outside in it, then jump naked into the snow! That's always fun.
Well, Yovo, the rangers are shooting them themselves-- it's a federal park and no hunting or trapping is allowed by the public. They haven't (the beavers) even built a lodge yet and they're cutting trees like Paul Bunyan on meth. This ain't the mountains; everytime they dam up a stream someone's house or cornfield floods. At least if I trap them, somebody benefits. I guess I'll have to go to the mountains-- my son is married to a girl who came from Tioga County and there are beau-coup beavers up there. I can stay at her parents for free.
