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[Lord Punctual]

Very interesting. Your School of the Air sounds like it would combine some of the best features of Home and, er, regular Schooling. The individual attention and pacing of home schooling, combined with the the structure and educational outcomes of traditional school.

I actually live in Nova-Scotia, which is within sight of Prince Edward Island. (Across the Northumberland Strait.) I have to say, I think they might have been pulling your leg about the frozen meat barbecue. For the most part, Canadian barbecues are a summer event. Actually, I had barbecued hamburgers (and chicken skewers) yesterday for dinner. It was about 10-15 degrees C out, so everything was still hot when we got it back into the house! Today it was 17 C, which is very nice and warm for this time of year. I spent most of the evening outside with my Cadets without a jacket on. Of course, I'm pretty cold tolerant but we were all outside in our shirt sleeves.

I think the humidity has a lot to do with how we perceive heat. We have extremely high humidity in the summer, so when it get to more than about 28 C I pretty much either make a point of being out at sea, or hiding in the basement until summer is over.

We do sometimes barbecue in winter. Usually whoever is doing the grilling must consume a great amount of inspiritous beverages in order to handle the cold. However, unless ones baebecue was really far from the house, or one left the meat sitting around beside the grill, I can't really see the meat freezing on the way back to the house. -25 is cold, but it isn't that cold. Also, it doesn't get that cold very often. We usually have a couple of weeks of hard cold around January and February where it drops into the -20s and stays there, but the rest of the winter usually hovers around -15 up to -5, and we even get some winter days when it is 0 or a few degrees above 0.