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notes there's a link for the feed so check it out James how's it going we're

we're halfway through the longest, shortest month of the year.

Yeah, February does drag in a special way, doesn't it?

It's been a real mixed bag for weather here.

Lovely days, but the weather, the temperature's all over the map.

And I'm still in the, now the the fine by the time you're listening to this I'll be I'll be at the stage just before I start putting stuff in the in the jeep to drive up north for some winter And at this point I don't really know

if it's going to be, you know, three or four degrees

and everything we bought is overkill, which is like fine,

who cares?

It's not like you buy it for one outing.

Right. Or if it's going to be like a cold snap, it's supposed to start snowing about two days before and

apparently will continue to snow. The interesting thing is where my cottage is typically there's a

the highest elevation is nearby and it seems to split a lot of weather. So we

do it a lot where, you know, throughout the whole summer we joke that every Sunday it rains.

And the truth is, every Sunday it rains somewhere nearby and it's very commonly not right on the property.

You can watch the rain across the lake.

Sometimes you can, you drive into town and it's raining in town.

But there's something to do with the way that the, kind of this nearby highest point in the area breaks up some of the weather so

having not spent a ton of time in the winter out that way I don't really know what

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