Cold and rain limit me to working inside or at least under cover (in a garage). Working with insulted gloves makes it hard to hold items, no gloves makes the hands go numb until it's hit, bumped, or scrached on something and the blood returns.
Cold weather is good for camping with the wife and sharing a sleeping bag. It's good for a campfire and the smell of something feeahly baked.
Rain just sucks
Slippery, both footing and holding on to tools
Risk of electric shock with tools
Decreased vision with watet running down my face
A slight breeze makes it cold
We feet (a personal irritation).
I'll take the warm weather, put on a hat, take off the shirt, keep a cold Gatorade available.
When it is over 95F (35c)
Work 30-45 min and a 10 min break.

 

1 more for cold- I sleep better than when it's sooooo hot the aircon can't kerp up. Waking up with damp pillow and sheet due to sweat is NOT enjoyable or restful

 

I have enjoyed recreational activities in the cold and the heat. Snowmobiling the trails of Wisconsin's north woods was a whole lot of fun. Noodling the Washita river in Oklahoma summer is quite enjoyable too.

When working outside in the cold gloves are like a women. Can't work with them, can't work without them. Working in an non A/C barely heated truck shop I've dropped tools from my hands being too cold to hang on, not from sweat making them slippery.

I'd rather drive during a summer downpour than a winter blizzard.

Retirement? If I had to choose between sweating or shivering I'd choose sweating.

 

Noodleling- yes, that was a way to get my heart rate up without running. Atleast when I did it the rush never stopped even if the hole was empty.

 

My personal top experience of the "small world" thingy happened during a 6 week land-trip across the USA back in 1979 at a lookout point on the edge of the Grand Canyon, when, 5,000 miles from home, I heard someone calling out my name and when turning around meeting an old school friend from the Netherlands.

 

If you don't mind me asking where in Ontario did you live? Thunder Bay was my home for about 20 years. We used to bring the sleds down to Grand Marais for the weekend sometimes. We took the trails to Duluth once. All good fun.