>>>>>>>That's just something you've snapped in the Everglades!
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>>>>>>It was tasty too!
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>>>>>And so easy to cook: it hovers over its own fire then hops onto the plate.
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>>>>>Saw a nature prog last night about Florida and esp the 'Glades - 1,000s of sq km, Florida being bigger than England and Wales put together. Truly you live in Paradise.
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>>>>Except for the hurricanes, of course.
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>>>Aye but you can't even grow the sour grapes up there in Hyperboria, can you? :-)
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>>Hah! Shows how much you know. Ontario is fast becoming known as one of the finest wine regions in the world.
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>Well I've been to Ontario sevral times, have travelled through much of it. Now I know you grow corn - lots of it, and "Little Holland" has all those onions, but I never saw, nor had my attention drawn to, any vineyards.
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>>Oh, wait! You're right, you said sour grapes, didn't you. ;)
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>>Besides I appreciate winter. If it weren't for winter, all my complaining about the cold and the snow would sound really stupid, wouldn't it.
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>Sure you're not confusing grapes with gripes? :-)
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>My compaint about winter here is that we don't really get one - well not one the kids can enjoy, with snow and that. And, incidentally, there are several vineyards within 1/2 hour drive of where I live.

Ontario's major 'wine country' is mostly located in the Niagara region. Inniskillen makes some very nice wines, and their 'ice wines' have won international awards (see here). Also Prince Edward County (a couple of hours east of Toronto) has also begun to be recognised as quite a good wine region.

As far as winter is concerned, yes when I was a kid, winter was a lot more fun, but now that I'm, well... older, the kids can just go find their fun somewhere else (selfish little whiners).