did you say SNOW ? aRRR !

[Lavandula Canadensis]

Joy,

2 years ago, i discovered these icers (high quality tracks that i put underneath my boots, attaching w velcro straps) and i have been using them everytime i had to go out this winter

when i was younger, i used to watch the little house in the prairy on tv (when it was translated into french) and this program used to (still does if i see it by coincidence) bring back wonderful memories of when i was a child & teenager at my grand-aunt/uncle's place...

that's where i learned how to make homemade soap, cook everything from soup, cretons, ragout, roasts, head cheese* (from scratch with the whole pig's head!) tourtieres, pies, buckwheat pancakes, fruit chutney... on the kitchen wood stove, sew on the treddle sewing machine, do braided carpets, embroidery, crochet, gardening, with my grand-aunt, and go hunting for wild berries, hazelnuts, hare & partridge with my grand-uncle who was a huron-wendatt arboriginal...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese

[joy]

I guess because of my age & the fact that my relatives knew how to put to use every bit of food etc they could, I know about souse meat and head cheeese. In fact, when I was a meat wrapper for a time (the pay was a lot better for that verses a checker) I sold such items.

I have in fact made my own mincemeat for pies and used green tomatoes to go along with the meat that filled the item out nicely. I will now google your ancestry and will enjoy learning some new and interesting facts, I'm sure. thanks. I dearly love looking up things on a computer. When I worked a lot of people were drug into using computers kicking & screaming. Not me, I was so facinated by theeeeeeem then & I still am. aw forget the many ee's LOL.

[Lavandula Canadensis]

"Snow flakes highly magnified by a low-temperature scanning electron microscope (SEM). The colours are called "pseudo colours", they are computer generated and are a standard technique used with SEM images."

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...w_crystals.png

http://emu.arsusda.gov/snowsite/