01 March, 2007

On Assignment in Manitoba

I wasn't going to post anything this week since I'm on 'holidays' in Manitoba, but this,

THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!!!
I mean, I like snow as much as the next person (....from Florida...), but since my flight landed last Saturday, according to my calculations, it has not stopped snowing for more than 45 minutes (and that number's up 15 minutes from this morning)! (Yes, I have taken some pictures but I won't be able to download them until I get back to Maine.)

I do realize this is part of life in Manitoba; I remember it well. This is the time of year when that age-old communal lament resonates throughout the province: 'Why, for the love of all things good, do we still live here?!?!' And yet, even as the utterers of those lamentations trudge along sidewalks knee-deep in snow or shovel the snow on their driveways onto piles already eight feet high (for the third time in the same day), something compels them to stay. Perhaps it's because their ancestors are from here and they figure since those people survived, what kind of weaklings would they be if they couldn't tough it out for one more winter? Maybe Manitobans and other Prairie-Dwellers are born with a special gene that enables them to forget the ugliness of the weather from one winter to the next. Or....maybe they're just crazy. Whatever it is that makes Manitobans stay here year after year, I salute you all.

You're crazy, but I salute you anyway.

P.S. I don't know how many of you have seen that new PC vs. Mac commercial, but isn't it hilarious?

3 comments:

erin k said...

We're crazy, but that's why people love us.

Having lived for a year where we had snow for a total of two days, I can tell you that I would never trade winter for anything. I'm a Manitoban through and through.

Beck said...

There's a new one? I haven't seen it.
The weather here is pretty extreme, too, and I don't exactly LIKE it, but it's home, you know?

bren j. said...

Yes, well, they loved you until they found out you weren't Friendly Manitobans anymore....all the "Spirited Energy" in the world may not save you now....
But no need to worry, WE still love you!