Hello on Thursday

Dear Friends,

Hope that your Ground Hogs Day went as well as ours did.
My only outdoor adventure was to do a little snow blowing, and go to our mailbox, located at the end of our driveway, and get the mail.
By the time the storm reached the Berkshires, it had lost it's punch.
I just looked out the front door, and saw that we picked up an inch of snow last night, but the city plows created another mountain of snow at the end of the driveway.
Our plow guy doesn't do our driveway unless the snow fall is 3 inches or more. This means that I will have to fire up the snow blower for a third consecutive day.

My friend who just retired the other day has had enough of this endless snow. He is driving to Georgia today.
He is heading into a weekend of not so nice weather in the region where his son lives, and where our friend has a second home. He can't rethink his plans because he is on the road already.

Our neighbors did come over for some of that Crock Pot Beef Stew. We almost talked them into using our spare bedrooms. Their hard wood floor in the kitchen was being resurfaced, and the odor from the varnish has permeated their house. They didn't take us up on our offer. Oh Darn!

Sports - I see where the Boston / New England sports teams haters have another thing to make themselves more upset with. Besides Tom Brady winning Quarterback of the Year, we have to add Bill Belichik as Coach of the Year. I am stilling reeling from the fact that the Patriots didn't even make it to the Super Bowl.
Speaking of the Super Bowl, the media event and the party tents outside the Stadium are doing so in cold and icy weather. It will be in the lower 60's by Super Bowl Sunday.
Yesterday we received some more grocery fliers in the local newspaper. Of course the fliers are all aimed at people having Super Bowl parties. I was feeling sad that I wasn't having a party at our house this year. Do you think that I made a mistake by canceling our Annual Super Bowl Party? I almost felt like changing my mind even though the Super Bowl is couple of days away.




Weather -- It will be cold and sunny today, but another winter event is heading this way for Saturday. Boston might be a little more wet than us in the Berkshires.
A roof collapse at the eastern of the State made National News yesterday. The Roof Collapse did so on some small airplanes, and one helicopter. A flat roof, which is cheaper to build, just couldn't handle the unusual amount of snow which we have had this year.
It is a balmy 13 degrees as I compose this e-mail. We will reach the 20 degree mark for the high of the day.

Social Calendar -- We have to do a couple of errands today, one of which, is to verify at we are alive so that the Massachusetts Teachers Retirement System will keep sending our Pension Checks.
We are socially engaged is evening, but we are going in different directions. Linda has a Red Hat event at a local restaurant, and I am going to Patrick's Pub to listen to a local band who is trying to pick up a few donations to help defray the cost of a trip to Istanbul Turkey. Our Irish Sister City friend and Band Leader believes that world peace can be achieved through music instead of constant conflicts and bloodshed. If you knew this former student of mine, you would know that he is truly sincere.

World News -- Egypt is still in turmoil. The President of this Country formed a group of protesters who support him. This means that we have people from the same country fighting each other. I still think that the current President should find a way to gracefully resign from his position, and have his people vote for a new President.

I have noticed that when there is a weather event people are committing less crimes. Chicago got the worst of the latest storm, and yet it was the calmest as far as crimes went for a day or so. How could the drug dealers and the people selling their bodies even stand on any street corners with the wind blowing as hard as it was in Chicago over the past few days?

Well I have to finish my morning routine.
Have a great Thursday.
Linda and I will be having one for sure.
Talk to you soon. The Curley Lad