Well, people - it's official - winter is actually, truly and unmistakably here. My dear middle daughter is thrilled. She is terribly afraid of tornadoes you see, so she is really happy when winter arrives and the possiblity of tornadoes is pretty much nil. I made the awful mistake of letting her see part of Twister (the movie - you know, with Helen Hunt) - not to mention the movie that they show at the Odysseum of Edmonton's "big one". She is scarred for life, I'm afraid.