I brought the cold with me back to Winnipeg, but apparently, there was plenty to go around. Sorry. We were excited by the Magpies, Darby hadn’t seen one before. I didn’t think to mention. Funny what kids notice - like the black squirrels in Ottawa?
As I sit and watch the snow dance and swirl outside my window I wonder, is it best to shovel the first 15cm now and then do the last 15 cm worth before bed or is it best just to wait and shovel all 30-35cm at the end of the storm?
I loved that weather yesterday. Donned the long johns, and went for a long walk. Picked up the goods for my crock pot curry butter chicken. Stinking up the stairwell of my apartment as I typed this.
Today, I heard from the hall way " sacrament ça pue !" ha ha.
Cretins don’t know what their missing.
Oh yes we do. You go ahead and enjoy it and I’ll stay warm and comfy here inside.
Or I would if I had remembered to buy food recently 
I had to go out today to fetch provisions for the week.
Shovel the first 15 cm then the second 15 cm. It’s easier to shovel that way (assuming you’re old and feeble like I am).
Feeble but not old (42 is the new 25, isn’t it?). I tried to do some shovelling but it is windy enough that it is drifting back almost as fast as I move it. I think I’ll wait until it is done to shovel.
Ah, the pain-in-the-ass wind factor - I’d leave it too, then.
Done! I forgot how zen an experience shovelling can be. I just wish I could get the hang of using a sleigh shovel. I always end up with a slope that is too flipping steep to get the snow up. Because of that I can only really use it for two major snow storms and then it is back to the little push shovel.
55 Canadianisms You May Not Know or Are Using Differently
How many terms on the list do you recognize? I admit to not having heard “parkade” before I visited Western Canada or “donair” before visiting Eastern Canada.
That was interesting - I didn’t know that US Americans don’t use the term “housecoat” like we do - we use it for either gender; they only use it for women’s bathrobes, apparently. I was a little surprised by “pablum” and “freezies,” too - I assumed those were more universal than they are.
I was not familiar with Texas Mickey (but I don’t drink and rarely go to bars, so my drinking vocabulary is limited).
They missed by favourite regionalism (well, Thunder Bayism): shag. As in, want to buy a ticket to Donnie and Marie’s shag? Should be lots of folks there.
Is a shag like what we Manitobans would call a ‘social’ - an evening of booze and dancing to raise money for an about-to-be married couple?
Funny, I was just thinking about gonch pulls yesterday.
Probably best not to invite a Brit to that event, lest they get the wrong idea! 
Here’s a term that I don’t think was on that list: “food fair” (what a food court is called in Vancouver. And maybe other places out west?) Though I’m not sure if that’s an exclusively Canadian term or if it’s used in the US too.
My favourite only got a passing mention. Bunnyhug.
Growing up my mother, and by assiciation I, called it a kangaroo or a kangaroo jacket. Now I just call it a hoodie, as do my kids.
I can understand the etymology of kangaroo and hoodie. But bunnyhug? Where did that come from? Saskatchewan, I know, but still.
I knew most of them, until it got into the drinking ones.
I knew most of those, but I take issue with the author’s assertion that a 12-pack of beer is called a “case.” Certainly, it isn’t nationally.
I know that some here in western Canada consider a 12-pack to be a case, but it is not so in eastern Canada. There, a “case” is 24 bottles or cans, sold in a single package. Other names for such a package are “two-four” or sometimes, “deuce.” A 12-pack is just known as a “twelve,” or less-often (but logically), a dozen.
I heard them all when I worked for the Beer Store in Ontario, but no Ontarian ever asked for a case and expected to get a 12-pack.
Yep. A case is always a two-four here.
Hoping for one? 
I was just thinking about facewashes the other day - is that regional, or do all Canadians call getting your face rubbed with snow (against your will) a facewash?