the wee ones are off to motherland...

[pilvikki]

I. e. Canada!

isn't that kind of backwards - everybody else's is on this side? nevertheless, they headed to the airport at 3.30 for their 6.30 AM flight. like, are you kidding me?

punkin and didi just got back from Germany this morning, in a nasty wind storm, which has since settled down some. phew. but it's now raining instead. didi's going to be driving back, which is a good thing as I was up "early" (9) this morning. (I have to stay up to at least 2 and often I then can't go to sleep until 3 or 4.)

they'll be gone until mar 3rd and that leaves me without the wee ones a whole 2 weeks +! well, one of them weeks i'll be catsitting albert again.

ok, 4 AM. I think i'll hit the sack.

[tomsk]

Blimey, as kids all we got was a day trip to Margate, Litttlehampton or Hastings...
The world is your Lobster....
Oh sleep tight our kid...

[yogi]

A lot of us folks this side of the big pond have been thinking of going to Canada as well

[pilvikki]

plenty of room up there! see: http://www.nationmaster.com/country-inf ... /Geography

a wee bit bigger than the states, but only about 10th of the people. lots of room to

[tomsk]

Those log cabins are so homely and I love them Beavers too,
Those bears are scary though...I waaana go ..
From Catford to Canada!

[yogi]

Population of Canada: 35.16 million
Population of USA: 318.9 million

Given both countries are approximately the same size, the difference in population numbers is startling. Perhaps things will change. It looks as if the North Pole area is headed for 50+ degrees above their normal temperatures for a second year in a row. When all that ice finally melts the folks in Florida will be under water and looking for a drier place to go. The Northwest Territories just may experience a building boom.

[pilvikki]

it definitely will be interesting to see what happens! my house, about 160 m northeast of Toronto, would get winter temperatures of -35, -38 (-31, -33 or so) and sometimes up to +30 (86) in the summer. not often though.

we'd have wolves, bears, lynx, beavers, moose, otter, turtles, deer, blue herons, American bitterns etc roaming about.

[tomsk]

we could keep each other warm in bed Vikki,
never mind them critters!

[yogi]

Oh, I'm sorry. Excuse me

[pilvikki]

[tomsk]

Wha....?

[yogi]

Don't look so innocent.

[tomsk]

Nothing like a bit of razzle dazzle from what I can remember....