FRIDAY night CHAT

[AJ_77]

Originally Posted by BC_Grl

C'mon AJ, it can't be bad... I have a friend who lives in Calgary and he loves it!! I've been there once and enjoyed it myself. Work is said to be aplenty.

Hmmm, well it is a very nice place if you're from east or north of here. The mountains are in close proximity, they look very nice indeed, and you can get there like Tony says in short time. There is awesome hiking and camping and natural communing galore, lots of fresh tumbling streams etc... I've loved being here and enjoying all this, but...

Tonight and tomorrow night its going down to -28 C and the high for the next couple should get up to -22. Sure it's not Edmonton but it's too close. I've lived here for most of my life - I'm just ready for a change. When we come to the island for a holiday, it rips my heart out to leave. I actually had bitter tears last time. (Insert whiny violin music here...)

You have water all around, a rocky island with all my favourite foliage, rain that STARTS in the fall and greens up all winter long, maybe 2 days with snow a YEAR, temps that for the most part don't see the south side of zero, and humidity. Here, my sons are developing asthma. What the h@ll is THAT?!? I never had asthma... no wait, now I do have "irritated upper airways" or some damn thing, from the high and dry. One of my pals is keen on pointing out to anyone who listens that we have lower relative humidity than the Sahara. Fifteen percent just sounds wrong, and it is.

I guess the grass is always greener, you don't know what you've got til it's gone, etc etc etc. "You should never judge someone until you've walked a mile in their shoes. Then, you're a mile away and you've got their shoes."

Cheers!