Brrr, its cold. After having a week of warmer weather the Canadian winter has continued full force with another upcoming week of cold highs and even colder lows. At the moment a chilly negative 20 degree's Celsius keeps me inside the house. It is days like this that turn my mind to days of adventure and the hope to get outside soon. The thaw cannot come soon enough! But enough hopeful thoughts for one day. As cold as I am when I go out for walks in this weather, the animals that inhabit the

forests of Canada are colder. They cannot go into a heated house to escape the cold. They cannot put on a extra layer of clothes when the temperatures dip in the low 20s. Yet they get out of their dens and burrows to battle the temperatures. They wear nothing but the fur on their backs. It shows you that these creatures belong here. They have everything they need to survive any sort of impending weather system. Yet us humans would die here in a matter of hours if we didn't have some sort of external material to cover our naked skin. We are aliens to the Northern winters, we clearly do not belong in this environment. Yet here we are with the squirrels. They must look upon us with pity!