nce again I bring you greetings from Alberta, albeit amidst the proper beginning of our Canadian winter. I say ‘proper’ because it’s only been a fortnight since temperatures reached the seasonal average and brought our first snowfall. Christmas here was ‘brown’; only the second in almost 52 years to my knowledge, and one for which Santa even considered the Fordson in lieu of the sled and reindeer! Temperatures last week dropped into the -40°C range, but have moderated to a
