: Yes but you do get to paddle year round, something that not all of
: us enjoy.

Exactly! The wind chill this morning was some ungodly record-shattering number like -37 C (or F for you Americans). I drove over the river today and saw nothing but tumbled broken ice where just one week ago I was paddling. Sucks to be here. Car would barely start. Darned good thing the humidity wasn't higher than sere or I wouldn't have made 5 steps outside before running back into the house with severe frost-bite on my face. Bent wood, Malcolm? I don't see a problem with that. Try cutting wood with a saw while your fingers numb up faster than you can use a chop saw for just one cut. Hee! Hee! Why the heck do ya think I'm running over to your place, eh! I just might become one of those Canadian winter birds 'cept I won't poop all over the place like those geese do.

Robert N Pruden