Monday, 14 January 2008

It continued snowing overnight and this morning the winter wonderland look had returned.

The little 1 metre high cypress outside the front door had its Christmas covering on it again.

My sister and I went to Kitchener about 40 minutes drive northwest of Stratford to look at a hobby shop which seemed to be in a private residence, and I didn't like the look of the place so we didn't get out the car. Instead we went on to another one on the otherside of town, but they didn't have anything which would have been of interest to my friend Leon at home. We went on to Canadian Tire which I would compare to Game in South Africa and bought a snow mobile suit which would do the perfect job when flying my microlight trike to Underberg in the winter. Windproof and very warm! I'm going to test drive it later. I'll get my brother in law to take me for a high speed ride on the back of his pickup along one of the country roads, just to make sure it can handle the wind chill factor as well. Oh... I've subsecuently found out a person is not allowed to be on the back of a vehicle unless all the seats with seatbelts are occupied. Hmmm. Canada and its regulations! Oh well, I'll have to believe the labels on the suit that say it's windproof etc.

Trees along the highway to Kitchener

Tonight we're going to a fund-raisers dinner for some poor African village. I know it sounds strange. That reminds me about the story my brother in law has told me of someone he knows who found his brown truck tailgate had been swapped for a white one overnight. I thought I was in Canada!!!?? At least it was a straight switch... now that's probably the difference!?

(Update: The snow mobile suite is perfect for flying the microlight. I've been using it regularly since I got back home.)