yikes

So this morning in Unrequited Dreams, I read about the sealers who were lost on the ice and found frozen to death.

Heh it's cold right now, -15C, without taking the windchill into account, so yeah, I'm glad I walk from the train station to work, one heated place to another. Though in that climate, doing that work, clearly it was an accomplishment for them to be coming home alive as often as they did. My own grandfather was a fisherman, and never learned to swim. How about that! It's the kind of thing that grounds you and you don't want to forget, but I don't want to tell it to my wee nephew if it's going to sound like it's making a caricature out of my grandfather. Our family doesn't roll like that.