Out here in Western Canada we sometimes experience a weather phenomena known as a 'Chinook'. The temperature rises rapidly and the snow starts melting. For a brief moment you would almost think spring is arriving but no sooner do you get used to the warm weather when the mercury plunges once again snapping you back to the reality that winter still has four or five more months to go.

Chinooks are a real nice way to break up the winter. It's sort of like the economy version of 'heading south'. If they last too long though you start ending up with a 'mud' problem. Mud in Alberta is different than mud I've experienced anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere. Alberta mud can suck the boots right off your feet and I'm not exaggerating that in the least. Alberta mud has no equal.

Enough of mud talk. There is going to be a lot more snow and ice before we have to worry about the mud. Actually..., I think I can put up with snow more than mud except that snow means cold for the most part and it's cold that I really don't like.

Anyhow..., I'm going to enjoy the 'Chinook' and hope that it doesn't dissipate too soon. In the meantime...

Check back regularly, no telling what little nugget of gnarled knowledge or whimsical wisdom you're going to unearth here but I will guarantee it won't be a 'horse nugget'.

Hasta Luego

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