{"id":2001,"date":"2013-02-24T16:55:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T00:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2013-11-18T18:08:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T02:08:14","slug":"change-the-one-thing-canadians-can-count-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/change-the-one-thing-canadians-can-count-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Change, The One Thing Canadians Can Count On"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Picture<\/a>The seasons are changing again. As a Canadian, this means a lot to me. My entire life style changes with the seasons.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is especially true as I live in the Okanagan region of Canada. Our summers are very hot, many days near and or over 40 oC (and dry too) and we have a huge lake–very busy with all sorts of people attempting water sports all summer long. I head to the beach almost daily with my daughters to swim, relax on the beach \u00a0and attempt the odd water sport. And on mornings, I trail run on the mountains near my home and cycle on amazingly beautiful alpine paths.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winters are the complete opposite. Mild with snow, much<\/em> snow on the mountain top where I live. My weekends are organized around mountain sports: skiing, tobogganing and skating.\u00a0Many evenings the snow is so heavy, my<\/strong> neighbors can be seen snowboarding and tobogganing down the street in front of my home\u00a0<\/strong>(I don’t let my kids do this as it is a road underneath all that fluffy white stuff and the odd car can (and does) plow through the icy streets). Unless you have 4 wheel drive with studs on your tires, you’re not going to make it up the mountain coming home from work on fresh snow days.<\/p>\n

February is the start of spring in my region. This means ch-ch-ch-changes! The down town ice rink is shutting down for the season this week . So sad–It is artificially cooled to withstand our often mild winter days but it’s getting too warm for the city to keep cooling it. Skiing will slow down soon too.<\/p>\n

I am missing my winter routine already. It’s too cold to start the summer water sports so this means a season of being in weekend sports limbo. I’ve started a Rosetta Stone Language course to fill my evenings so I don’t become too fidgety. It’s actually a lot of fun–1\/2h lesson a night for 25 nights and I shall be bilingual \ud83d\ude42
\nI hope you enjoy the very short video Pip and I made this morning–on the last weekend skate of the season (on our favorite down town ice rink).<\/strong><\/p>\n

I love getting up early on weekends and hitting the ice rink with Pip–a great way to start the morning.<\/p>\n

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