{"id":2510,"date":"2019-03-11T23:55:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T03:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2019-03-12T01:02:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T05:02:16","slug":"compare-1955-and-1956-with-2019-march-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=2510","title":{"rendered":"COMPARE 1955 AND 1956 WITH 2019: MARCH BREAK"},"content":{"rendered":"
SOMETHING DIFFERENT IS HAPPENING\u2026THAT MUCH IS FOR SURE: 1955 versus  2019<\/p>\n

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(comparing 1955 with 2019\u2026.March Break)<\/div>\n

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GLOBAL  WARMING\u2026SEEMS TO HAVE SKIPPED OVER US<\/div>\n

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Which of the following pictures were taken in March  1955 and 1956? As opposed to 2019?  Easy  to do.  Way back  in 1955 and  1956 we spent our March Break<\/div>\n
on camping trips  to the  Etobicoke Creek which  was  then a wonderful wilderness to us.   We slept outside  and  spent our time exploring<\/div>\n
a number of abandoned  farms.   We did  not give much thought as to why they were abandoned  but just revelled in being outside in the<\/div>\n
fine spring weather.<\/div>\n

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Today, our March Break is  totally different.  Ice and snow\u2026plummeting temperatures.  The idea of camping does not come into anyone save<\/div>\n
a lunatics  head.  At our farm I skirted this piece of scrap  iron frozen in ice\u2026potentially lethal..   One  slip and the body would  be sliced into fine sections.<\/div>\n
Some  would wonder why I saved it.  Elsewhere on the  farm the signs  of mid winter abound.<\/div>\n
Two of Andrew\u2019s employees give  mute testimony to the cold.  Find  them.  They were helping to load artifacts  for the  forthcoming TV series<\/div>\n
\u201cAnne with an E\u201d.   There was  so much  sheer ice that some items could not be retrieved.   Only gallons and gallons of hot water eventually<\/div>\n
freed the anvils.  Moving them by hand to the truck was  another problem.<\/div>\n

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So  we talk  about global warming.  And I agree something sinister is  happening around us.  Insects, amphibians, birds, turtles, groundhogs <\/div>\n
are dwindling alarmingly.   And  elsewhere in the world  temperatures are sky rocketing.  But here in the Ontario  heartland we seem  to be<\/div>\n
having an extended  winter.   You figure it out.  The only creatures  out camping around our place are the coyotes\u2026lots of them.  <\/div>\n

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We never saw or even heard  a coyote back in 1955 and  1956.  <\/div>\n

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March  Break 2018<\/div>\n

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P.S.  Just getting from the farmhouse to the road  was  no easy task today as you will <\/div>\n
see when you  spot Marjorie.<\/div>\n

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Pictures taken in mid  March today and also back  in 1955<\/div>\n

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Andrew using the ATV to try and get the wood wheeled  wagon to the road\u2026not easy.<\/div>\n

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Pictures of  Eric  Skeoch, Alan  Skeoch and Big Red Stevenson and  Brian Hetherington.<\/div>\n

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SOMETHING DIFFERENT IS HAPPENING\u2026THAT MUCH IS FOR SURE: 1955 versus  2019 (comparing 1955 with 2019\u2026.March Break) GLOBAL  WARMING\u2026SEEMS TO HAVE SKIPPED OVER US Which of the following pictures were taken in March  1955 and 1956? As opposed to 2019?  Easy  to do.  Way back  in 1955 and  1956 we spent our March Break on camping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}