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Some people actually look forward to winter as they enjoy the winter activities such as skiing, skating, etc. It took me a while to get my balance on the skates and I was more often horizontal than vertical but I finally got the rhythm of it. When we lived in the Ottawa Valley it was just a short drive to the Rideau Canal in Ottawa which freezes solid in winter and creates the world's longest skating rink being approx five miles long. We would skate and then stop to eat a delicious pastry called Beaver Tails - actually shaped like beaver tails - sugary and sweet to give us some energy and served from stalls lining the canal.
Although most other rivers and lakes freeze over it is not recommended that one skate on them as the density of the ice is unknown and tragedy has occurred too often in the past.
As far as winter sports go we are merely spectators. Games are becoming rougher and less like sport. Witness the riots in Vancouver when our hockey team lost the Stanley Cup. It's only a game, but that doesn't seem to be the attitude of late. I have a picture in our den of a personal friend holding up that very same cup in the year her father's team won it, approx 15 years ago, and there was no rioting then by the losing side. Times change just like the weather.
But enough talk of weather and winter. It will be here soon enough.