Winter Wonderland? Or just autumn?

This was the view from my living room window when I got up on my birthday. Is this adequate excuse for being too lazy to drive to work?!

That said, all I've heard for the last few weeks is 'wait til winter really arrives'. Although on Friday, someone did concede on email that I was getting 'a bit more experience of a Canadian winter..'

So today, I did brave the roads. Its -13 outside, and with windchill this drops to -20. So, is it winter yet, I asked? "wait til January" was the response. Although Thomas did admit that its 'not this cold normally in December'. Interesting use of the word 'normally'. Its not this cold normally in my freezer, which is set to a positively balmy minus 18.

So anyway, tonight in Oshawa we are expecting it to drop down to around -23 apparently, windchill and all things considered... i dont quite have enough fingers to count that far, and if it gets that low, not sure i'll be able to use them either!

I may be in a better position to conclude on whether or not it is in fact winter by tomorrow. All I can say is.... it had better be! Brrrr.