Hello on Monday Morning

Dear Friends,

Hope that your Super Bowl Sunday went as well as ours did. There was much food, fun, and merriment at our party.
A person who knows nothing about football, and who could care less about the game, won our modest football pool. Linda called her last night after the game was over, and told the West Stockbridge resident that she won the $34 pool.

The winner of the pool got me thinking about people whom could care less about the sport. Our local Sunday newspaper had an article about the Packer and Steeler fans in Berkshire County. There was also an article of people who have no interest in the Super Bowl, and what they were going to be doing on this big day. One person, who happens to be the Cultural Director for
Pittsfield, said that she was going to a less crowded movie. Do you think if I invited her to the Curley Party next year that she would attend? There were several people at our party who don't enjoy football, but do like getting invited to a party no matter what the theme is. If you invite Linda and I to a party, we would do our best show up, and party with the hosts and other guests.

Have the words of the Star Spangled Banner changed just for the Super Bowl?

How about the 1200 people who had ticket issues for the Super Bowl?

We were pleased that most of the people who were invited to our party did show up. We were also pleased that people who couldn't make the party notified us.
We were also happy that the food which people brought to the party had very few duplications. My asking people to bring a pot luck dish without telling Linda and I what they were bringing worked out very well.
Our pulled pork didn't work out to be a big hit. Linda is trying to figure out what to do with the leftover pulled pork. There must be some kind of soup or casserole dish that she can whip up.

The last few guests, who stayed until the game was over, helped us clean up which saved Linda and I a great deal of work. I have to empty the garbage, take care of bottle and cans, and do a little vacuuming to get my Man Cave back to normal.

I am the only one leaving the house today. Linda wants to relax, and try and rejuvenate her tired body. I have a 10 AM appointment with our Tax Preparation guy. I hope that when the numbers are crunched, we at least break even. Writing out a check to the IRS is so painful.

Linda and I are so happy that we stayed home on Saturday night. A friend of a friend came out of a restaurant, and fell and broke her hip. Her friends took her to the hospital which was about three miles from the emergency room of Berkshire Medical Center. They operated on the woman, and her hip was pinned back together. The woman is in her middle 50's.
Some other friends attended a Mass that we were supposed to attend. After Mass was over, the parking lots and sidewalks were coated with ice. One friend spent a good portion of time getting people to their cars. At one point, he and his lady friend took car mats out of his truck so people could walk on them.

We have some nuisance snow coming tonight right into the morning commute. Right now our weather guys are predicting 3 to 6 inches of light snow. The weather channel says we are getting less snow.

We still have ice on our roads and sidewalks. I was so nervous for our guests trying to manage our icy driveway and sidewalks. I put down salt twice on Sunday with no appreciable effect.
Our next door neighbor fell carrying a party pizza while on the path from his house to our house. The pizza never hit the ground according to our neighbor. I was really nervous for one of our guests who is a disabled Vietnam Vet who walks with a cane.
I am going out this morning to get the newspaper with those ice grippers attached to my footwear for a second day in a row. All of us would rather have snow than ice.

Our friend who just retired played golf with his son in Atlanta yesterday. He said that the temperatures reached into the 60's while playing golf, and he said that he was sweating while playing golf. The only time that I have been sweating is while at the gym, or shoveling snow, chopping ice, using a roof rake, etc.

I can't wait to see how our son's party worked out. I think that I am going to do several racks of ribs next year, but I have to get Kevin's dry rib recipe if he would share it with his dear old dad.

The commercials during the Super Bowl were fun to watch. Some were great, and others were real duds. It is difficult to imagine that these companies hire advertising agencies big bucks to create these commercials. If the commercials are a real dud, like several of them were, the companies should get a refund.

Well, I have to venture outside and get the local newspaper.
Have a great week at work or play.
Talk to you soon. The Curley Lad