PHOTO PROMPT © Ceayr
AM I BLUE? NO!
Ah, to be a Canadian Snowbird in South Carolina, for a week in October. Not really Snowbirds – snow hasn’t actually fallen in Southern Ontario – yet. Warm like summer at home, but not yet crowded with boorish, Speedo-wearing Quebecois.
The beaches are delicious – tanning and soaking up sun. It’s easy to tell tourists from townies. Canadians are frolicking in the surf, while the natives are dressed in down-filled coats, like Canucks will be in a month, when they have to shovel that snow. They stare, wondering why we build sand-castles, and not igloos.
Nobody in Canada owns a powder blue villa. 😀
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Go to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site and use her Wednesday photo as a prompt to write a complete 100 word story.
Archon's Den 
Their villas might be powder blue under all the snow, you just can’t tell 🙂
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Hey!!? The snow melts, and we get summer in Canada. It happens from August the 4th till August 11th…. almost every year. 😉 😆
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I lived in northern Canada when I was young. People would be out in shorts and T-shirts in the spring when it finally got up to 0 degree Celsius. 🙂
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We Canucks are a tough crowd…. although, we did have to ship William Shatner, Senile…. uh, Celine Dion, and Justin Bieber to the States, when we just couldn’t stand any more. 🙄
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I could see this in a speech by Trump in the future: “When Canada sends their people, their not sending their best…” 🙂
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It’s a matter of taste (and class? – they elected The Donald, didn’t they?). Even The Barenaked Ladies one-trick-pony act that Canadians ignore – kills in the USA. 😯
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I have never understood the parkas when it is a balmy 50F Nice story.
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Did I see you, walking your dog in my neighborhood, this spring? 🙄
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Haha yep that was me and Fido. Fido was the only one wearing a fur coat.
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Cute take on the prompt!
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It’s based on real-life occurrences. 🙂
Of course, it goes the other way too. When the summer temps and the humidity are both 110, Atlanta businessmen are mowing their lawns in 3-piece suits, while Canadians are losing sweat faster than they can pour beer in. 😯
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Yep. We Canucks are a tough lot. Wearing shorts at 15-16C, sitting out on terraces until October, soaking up the last of the heat…
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I think it’s genetic conditioning. I don’t know about your bunch, but mine came here from Scotland, where that’s a warm, spring day. 🙂
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I’ll have you know Rogerson is a Scottish name 😉
My paternal grandfather was a Highlander who raised long-horned cattle…
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Even if your French ancestors were from the Riviera, Scottish genes will out. 🙂
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I don’t know why tourists come to Canada in a month they consider so cold. There’s no snow yet to ski on and they can’t swim until it gets warmer. I’d guess they come for the scenery. Good story, I enjoyed the humor. 🙂 — Suzanne
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I have a blog-post where I tell of an American (and his family) in my home town, ready to go skiing – on Labor Day weekend. His home was 150 miles west but…. we were Canada. 😯
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Lively reflections and a sense of place, I like the wry tone.
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Thanx Max. 😉
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Great write. I was smiling all the way through 🙂
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Then it’s another successful week. Thanx. See you next weekend. 🙂
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