Friday, 17 April 2026

Seasonal Canadian Angst









42 comments:

Linda's Relaxing Lair said...

LOL Debra. These are hilarious. Thanks for the laughs.

Tundra Bunny said...

We've been on the climate change Tilt-A-Whirl this week too. All of our snow had melted, then we got walloped by a winter storm that left us with a foot of fresh snow. Temps are supposed to be 15-20 Celsius early next week which should melt it all again!

Barwitzki said...

I'll have the hot tea then...
Best regards.
Happy weekend!
Hugs Viola

Parnassus said...

Hello Debra, The robins one was my favorite today. --Jim

Tom said...

...we all need to remember that spring is a tug-a-war between winter and summer. The further north we go, winter has the upper hand!!!

Mistress Maddie said...

I don't know how you stand such long winters and a short spring /summer??? The meme For the love of God,MELT ALREADY would sum it up for me!!!!

Liz Hinds said...

I'm with the first one. Never too cold for ice cream. Did you know, lots of Italian ice cream parlours close for winter?!!!

Bob said...

South Carolina has the Real Seasons, too. We've been Springing for a week, and then Winter will return, and then Springing again!

Jamie Ghione said...

I agree with "The Real Seasons" one. I saw a similar one for here in California.

Travel said...

Everything is green here,

Sixpence Notthewiser said...

OMG I feel you!
Same here in Chicago. Well, no ice cream during the snowstorm, but yeah.

XOXO

Boud said...

My Canadian sister would start checking her garden in March. In snowboots. By about May she was going mad to plant.

Pixie said...

I saw my first robins yesterday; they were not impressed, and neither am I:)

Debra She Who Seeks said...

@ Boud -- No planting of flowers or gardens in Canada until after Victoria Day (May 24) -- that's when the risk of frost is finally gone!

Cleora Borealis said...

🥴 I guess searching for Spring in Canada is a lot like "Finding Neverland." I love the reference and it's one of my favorite movies. IMHO, the best work Johnny Depp ever put on film. 😍

whkattk said...

That's exactly what is happening down here: windy and COLD. Again.

RedPat said...

A friend put his shorts on during the first week of April and won't go for long pants until next November. I think he won't go outside if it is really cold. ;-)

Ms. Moon said...

This time of year can be so confusing. Even here. I find myself changing clothes three or four times a day to compensate for the temperature changes which can be extreme.

Kirk said...

All this sounds like typical Cleveland weather. Of course, we're just across Lake Erie.

NanaDiana said...

Your area and Wisconsin are a lot alike. They call us the Frozen Tundra. We still have spots of snow here and there and nothing has leafed out yet....sigh...I am ready...anytime now. Happy weekend, Debra! xo Diana

Moving with Mitchell said...

The Johnny Depp scene choked me up.

Linda Sue said...

We live just below the BC border- Our so called spring is much like yours without snow. Moment to moment. Tricky.

e said...

That False Spring season is aggravating! I've been taking blankets off the bed and putting them back on... I'm back up to four currently and it's almost not enough. I won't complain about snow in the mountains though, we desperately need it.

Mary Kirkland said...

That's so funny. We haven't had snow in Las Vegas where I live in years. We get snow around every 8 years. I've seen it a few times.

Anonymous said...

C’est tellement vrai pour notre météo.
Il y a toujours les Bermudes et les Caraïbes. :-)
Monsieur Dupuis 🇨🇦

angela said...

I made some wonderful Canadian friends on my trip overseas and we regularly talk on messenger. The weather is a huge topic for us.
I live im melbourne and we are the joke of the rest of Australia for being the place of “ if you don’t like the weather wait five minutes and it will change” city They’re not wrong

Bill said...

The flowers are popping up now here but the mornings are cool and on the cold side especially if we get no sun.

Mike said...

When I complain about the cold temps down here I always think about you sitting there just shaking your head.

Kathy G said...

I eat ice cream no matter what the season or temperature.

The Rev. Arnoldo L. Romero, MLA said...

LOL! If it makes you feel any better, in SW Texas we have the opposite problem. All our seasons are intermingled with warm to hot temperatures. So during the occasional freeze with icy, the city shuts down. LOL!

Fundy Blue said...

LOL, Debra! It's snowing here today. It's sick, but I laughed out loud at the robins in the backyard. I did see a robin a couple of days ago, thankfully alive. These are great!

Mae Travels said...

Here in MIchigan the Dairy Queen (which sells soft-serve ice cream cones from an outdoor window so you can eat it either outdoors or in your car) opens at the beginning of March. So there’s usually at least one snowstorm after it opens. We’re tough too.

DVArtist said...

These are very good and oh so true for many places.

roentare said...

Hilarious and benign

River said...

Nothing for me to see here, I'll come back tomorrow.

Elderberry-Rob said...

Enjoyed these. Here in the uk we are obsessively checking forecasts for possible frost occasional mild at night and hurrying to cover our delicate seedlings or our car windscreens but your weather would stop trains, close schools and bankrupt garden centres!

Duni said...

These are so funny! As a "summer person" I probably couldn't survive...

How do we know said...

Bikini weather? I need to visit Canada!!! LOVED each of these! I was in Canada very briefly once.. and loved the place.

Leanna said...

Right now we are still in final spring/pre-summer here in Texas. We bypassed Pollen/Allergies. Flowers appeared and popped off the trees. Only sneezed once and that was it. We had only one week of real winter. Blazingly fast how it came and went. Didn't even get to use a coat or gloves. Wondering if the seasons are AI.

Rade said...

Ah, yup! That 85 degree stretch made my husband panic. He was juuuusssstttt about to move our tropicals outside to the garden. Dropping to the high 20's for the next week.

MELODY JACOB said...

Oh well. Lol

https://linsartyblobs.blogspot.com said...

I enjoyed the funnies. It's been kinda strange here today [North UK], hot one minute, cold the next but a nice day on the whole. Even had an ice cream.