So tired of the cold weather ...

It's 6:00 a.m. CST, Thursday 19 February 2015. The temperature is -30 C; the windchill is -40 C. As if we didn't know, Environment Canada has issued another extreme cold warning.

My garage/man-cave is steady at about 17 C. That's with the garage heater going full blast. Thank goodness, I have thermal driwear and a fleece from Cabela's and a coffee hot plate to keep off the chill. The dogs had to be fed and given their morning treats before I could enter my retreat.

Unfortunately, they won't get their morning walk today. It's simply too frigging cold for them (and the walker). They'll have to be satisfied with a quick dash out in the backyard this morning again.

I feel sorry for anyone having to work outdoors today. Even the guys emptying our garbage and recycle bins. At least it's from the cabs of their special trucks. The garbage bins on our bay our now being emptied, complete with lots of beeping as they maneuver their truck around the sharp end of our bay. Life goes on, even in the extreme cold.

Life is what you make of it ...

... Harry Gordon Selfridge. Famous of course, for Selfridges and Co., of London. He also was famous for the Chicago department store, Marshall Wells. He coined the phrase, 'only so many days left before Christmas', encouraging people to shop early.

Much later, after losing his fortune because of a fondness for fashionable women and a related gambling addiction, he died penniless.

Yet, Selfridges is now back, thanks to the Westons of Canada. Selfridges continues on.

Many members of the wealthy Weston family are famous. The most recognizable family member to the average Canadian today is Galen Weston Jr. He frequently appears in commercials for Loblaw grocery stores and President's Choice label foods.