Thoughts of a Brass Monkey

It has been awfully cold these past few days and this morning the temperature is hovering around -18 with a wind chill that takes it even lower!  One of the old windows in our house needs desperately to be replaced.  How do I know?  So glad you asked.  Because it doesn't quite keep Ol' Jack Frost far enough away.  Take a look:

 On a more positive thought, my brilliant grade nine child has created a thing of beauty in shop class. During the session in metal shop, he made this rose. So gorgeous!
I can't wait till he makes me a Subaru Outback in auto shop.