Hah! I know it's true. When I moved to south Texas near the Mexican border I laughed when I saw my next door neighbor in ski cap, winter jacket and mittens... it was 67*! Two years later, I was just like her! I think 73* is chilly.

In Hawaii, they are having a cold spell right now because it's been raining so much -- close to 50 inches now for November and December! The lows have been around 66* and the highs have only been around 73*. On the Big Island homes are built without heating or air conditioning. You Canadians are tough!

Adrienne, it is all too true, I know I certainly start shivering at 60F, especially if that's the temperature indoors as I sit at the computer. On the other hand, 0F, that is a temperature that most Californians living anywhere except above 6000 foot elevation in the Sierra Nevada mountains are never going to see. I can't understand how so many people remain living so far north with such long winters! Give me the heat any day, I even managed to survive 125F degree days while living/working in Saudi Arabia. It put it in perspective for me, anything below 115F was just a nice day... Now below 30F, that is just too damned cold, or maybe for the week of skiing up at Lake Tahoe, I'll tolerate it.

When I was in junior high we lived in Menlo Park (south of San Francisco) and weatherwise, we were tough.

A school friend loved her Bernardo sandals and wore them year-round. (My mother wouldn't have let me get away with that.)

Other friends might wear shoes on cold winter days, but not socks.

On Sunday mornings, my parents slept in, but my brother and I wanted the newspaper. We figured a brief dash out to the driveway didn't require changing out of our pajamas, and even the rare times there was frost, didn't bother to put on robes or slippers.

A year later we were living in Connecticut, and I had discovered that winter weather could occur any time from September to April, and when I'd dressed in winter clothes, a heavy coat, etc., I was still cold and there weren't any more clothes to put on.

Loved it! Near Buffalo here and have been working outside and loving it in all these 30+ degree days.

I have seen that same thing for New Hampshire as opposed to Manitoba. It really is true, we haven't had any truly cold weather yet and my husband is still wearing flip flops. We grill outside all year round, even when you have to shovel or snowblow to get to the grill and crack the ice off the cover. My husband was outside in the snow grilling asparagus for our christmas eve dinner, in his flip flops.

My favorite one is the girl scouts selling cookies door to door, and the two hour delay - so true!. LOL!

Mmmm, asparagus on the grill...

I personally find cold weather invigorating, warm weather totally enervating and rather sickening, especially when it's humid. Yup, I'm a wuss - I rather envy all these sultry people who can forgo air-conditioning and even thrive in temperatures hot enough to melt candle wax. Maybe though it wouldn't be so bad though if locally, our temperature didn't seesaw between -40*C to +40*C every 6 months.

I think I will send this to my dtr-in-law. We all live in north Mississippi now but she's from Alaska and I'm from New Orleans and that sure sounds just like each of us!