I am rooting for the Cards today. Largely because they are the “underdogs” and have never won a SuperBowl. The Steelers have won plenty of them, so I think that it is time for the Cards. Go Cards! I plan to watch the Superbowl if the weather will allow it. I hope I don’t have to be out plowing and sanding!
The loader came this morning; it spent three hours moving snow in the dooryard! When the driveway is empty, it will hold six cars, before the loader came I could barely get two cars in the dooryard! The snow is piled up to 10 feet high in some places, away from the driveway; it looks like you could drive a tractor trailer around in there! Although I’m beginning to wonder if it will ever go away before June!
Now this is just crazy! We just got another 6″ of snow! The snow slid off the roof and it buried the front windows! I was very glad that I put a metal roof on the house this year! But now I’m beginning to wonder – I had to go out and literally shovel the snow away from the windows as it had pushed through the screen and was pushing against the inside window! It took about an hour, I will solve this problem shortly!
The winter weather just keeps on coming! More snow and ice. I don’t mind because I’m making a lot of money plowing and sanding! January and February are usually pretty good months for the business, we usually have snow OR ice, and this year we have plenty of both to keep me busy as can be! I just hope that my customers can pay their bills on time!
Boy, I love my generator! Ha Ha! This is the second time we’ve lost the power this month, but my generator kicks in and all is well. I’m laughing while I type this because my generator gives me power for the whole house. I can cook, clean, wash dishes, take a hot shower, get ready for work tomorrow, and I don’t have to worry about a thing as far as power! Life is great!
Managed to sneak in a few hours of ice fishing in Jarod’s ice shack earlier today. Didn’t catch many fish, but that’s ok. Had a good time hanging out and having a couple of beers. There’s nothing like the great feeling of driving your truck out onto the ice to the ice shack! You always have a little bit of doubt in the back of your head whether the truck will make it or fall through.
I really don’t like poor sportsmanship. Whenever I’m in a competition, I make it a high priority to be a good sport no matter what. I have a low tolerance for poor sports. If I have the opportunity to play some kind of game with a poor sport, or to NOT play with that poor sport, I will pass on the opportunity. I enjoy friendly competition, and there is nothing friendly about poor sportsmanship!
It was with much surprise that I read today about the poor sportsmanship demonstrated by the girls basketball team of The Covenant School in Dallas Texas in their stunning 100-0win over the Dallas Academy School. The Covenant School has always had a really good team, they have a large enrollment of girls in their school and have been playing for years. The Dallas Academy School only has 20 girls TOTAL enrolled in their school, so their talent pool is much smaller, and they have only been playing a short time. In my opinion The Covenant School exhibited poor sportsmanship in playing so extravagantly hard against the Dallas Academy. They could have beat them by a much lesser margin. That kind of beating is simply uncalled for. Well, that’s my opinion, for what it’s worth!
Last July I read on the Time.com website that LA has put a one year moratorium on new fast food restaurants in their low income district. The rationale behind that move is that this particular low income area is overflowing with obese people. The city council that put this moratorium in place thinks that by putting this restriction in, a better class of restaurants will open in the area, offering healthier foods.
I think that if this is a low income area, the residents will not be able to afford to go to these “better class” of restaurants to eat. You can go to a fast food restaurant and order healthy foods, such as salads. These people are choosing to eat unhealthy foods because they can afford it and they want it. They will get it SOMEWHERE, even if it means going to the grocery store and buying the junk food there.
I’d be really surprised if any of those “better class” of restaurants even TRY to open up in that area, the target market for that type of restaurant does not exist there. It would be a losing proposition.
I wonder how the moratorium is going!
Unbelievable! Yesterday the temperature was minus 4 degrees when I got up! I thought we were having a heat wave by noontime, it was ten above! Stayed that way all day! Today I got up and it was just zero outside! Although I had the heat cranked up to about 78 degrees in the house, it felt like 60! I could just feel that oil running right through the furnace! Oh well…. a little overtime will pay for it!
I want to go to DisneyWorld! I’m tired of the cold weather up here! I’ve only been there twice. By twice, I mean two separate vacations. During the vacations I went to DisneyWorld a couple of times. I really enjoy going there with my wife; she really knows how to make it special for me.
I could not see everything I wanted to see in the short period of time I was there. I’d like to go again and spend a whole month!
My favorite part of DisneyWorld is the Epcot Center. I really enjoyed the different pavilions, the food, and the shows. I’d like to spend a lot more time there.
Well the batteries are having a hard time starting up the cars and trucks this week! Below zero temperatures, no one wants to go out! I don’t blame them at all! This is a good time to “batten down the hatches” and stay indoors if you can. I’ve been running a long corded-shop light out to the truck and turning it on under the hood at night to keep the battery and engine warm enough to start if I have to go out! Works like a charm! I sure feel sorry for the people who have to drive vehicles with poor heaters!
Working outside every day, I’ve developed a healthy respect for bees. I leave the big bumblebees alone, but the little yellowjackets and the wasps and hornets have no redeeming purpose other than to annoy and threaten us good people who have to be outside making a living.
Around here you will also find big red wasps. They make nests in the eaves of your house, under your deck and in trees. If you are going after wasps, buy the spray cans that shoot 10 feet away – because these suckers come after you if you don’t kill them on the first shot. I’ve seen it.
From what I’ve been reading in the papers, the little bees that pollenate our flowers and fruit trees are having a hard time of it. They have been dying off and no one knows why. With all the science at our fingertips, we MUST find a way to cure the bees – our farmers desperately need them to pollenate the crops and the orchards.
I can’t believe it, it’s been about three days with no snow – cloudy, a little bit foggy, but they are saying maybe a little bit of light snow tomorrow. I hope not, I’d like to get some ice fishing in! Seems to be a couple of good places where the fish are biting!
I was reading on the Yahoo news that a restaurant in New York City has had a twenty pound lobster in its tank for about ten days. It has been estimated that the lobster is 140 years old. The article says that the lobster was destined to be cooked and eaten but that the restaurant has decided to release the lobster instead into the Atlantic ocean in Kennebunkport Maine in an area where lobster fishing is forbidden today. The PETA spokesman was praising their decision to release the lobster, saying it was nice to let the old guy go and live out the rest of his life in peace and freedom.
That’s all well and good, but I’d just like to point out that a lobster meat from a lobster that big is going to be tough and fit only for lobster stew! So that sounds like a nice publicity public relations gig, but in all practicality it would not have been a good eating lobster anyway.
I went to the store today to get some milk and biscuits. Somehow I found myself down by the seafood area. It’s been a long time since I had scallops for supper, so I decided tonight was the night. I grabbed about 8 pounds and called a couple of friends on my cell phone to come join me for supper.
On the way out of the store the manager was handing out fliers with several seafood recipes. I grabbed one of the fliers and headed for home. I saw that one of the recipes was almost exactly like mine. When I got home I jumped on the Internet to see how many variations of MY recipes there were and found nine like mine!
One of the big differences was that my sauce is a little thicker and smoother. I like to use cream instead of milk in my recipe. Also I like to use the smaller scallops along with salted crushed Ritz crackers.
It seems that every other day it is either freezing rain or snowing out! I’ve been keeping very busy plowing and sanding. Not getting enough sleep at night, but manage to catch a few cat naps in my truck from time to time. Thank goodness for coffee! I have a few business clients that are mom and pop variety stores and the let me come in and fill my thermos for free. They are nice people and show their appreciation every time I show up. They know that I’m usually in a hurry to go take care of other clients lots and dooryards so when they see me out there plowing and sanding they come out to the truck and take my thermos from me into the store and fix my coffee for me and bring it back out to me before I’m ready to leave. They know that when I have time I’ll stop by and chat when the weather is better and that I’ll be in there ordering food and buying lottery tickets.
Well, the weekend is over, spent most of it ice fishing with my friends out on Great Pond. We didn’t catch very many fish, but we drank a lot of beer! And we grilled some steak from my buddy’s deer that he shot last fall – boy was it good! I got several flags, but it didn’t seem like the fish was on the end of it when we got there! Oh well, back to work tomorrow!