Light Lashes

I'm not certain the hip, re-designed bug will inspire this level of affection.

Dancing Cocktails

Was it just us or does this bar sign in Sandpoint, Idaho raise images of cocktail glasses with legs dancing on the bar? Each time we saw the sign, at least one of us started laughing at the mental image it raised.

The Birthplace of Jell-O

We had no idea Leroy, New York was the birthplace of Jell-O and now home to the Jell-O Museum. I was never a big Jell-O fan with the exception of lime Jell-O with chunks of pineapple, but if I make a return to the Batavia area, I will be certain to make a stop at what promises to be a quirky museum.

Mail box

I hope our township road crews get some sort of kick-back from the local hardware store for the sales they generate. I understand damaged mail boxes are a risk of living in snowy areas, but our township excels at the sheer number of boxes which can be seen down along the roadside each winter. We're lucky, one nearby neighbor loses their box multiple times each winter. They've finally given up and now just bungy cord the box to the post creating a sort of tear-away mail box. It must be the new mega-plows municipailities use. This was a lot less frequent when we moved here.

Steelers Wedding Cake

You would need to be an amazing football couple to have any team logo for your wedding cake.

Butterfinger Coffee

There's a new coffee machine at one of our sites. I prefer my warm beverage to be hot chocolate and not to be from a machine so I cannot comment on the taste, but I can't think of a way that butterfingers and coffee could be combined as a tasty beverage.

Cold Facts

It's been a long, tough winter. With over a month to go before spring, it was sad to hear a local radio station proclaim this winter is the third worst in northeast Ohio for days where the high was 10 degrees or below.

Because there isn't much to do beyond looking at the weather stats and hoping for better days ahead, I noticed in January and February for northeast Ohio, all of the record coldest days have been recorded in my lifetime. :0

But wait, there are 18 days in January and February where the warmest days were recorded before I was born. Um, there's something wrong with this data. There's no reason for these 18 days to be stuck with 50+ year old records. I think we are owed some warm days so we can re-write these records.

Warmest and coldest days for northeast Ohio during January

Warmest and coldest days for northeast Ohio during February

There's one thing to be said for weather this cold. Walkin' on water is a whole lot easier. ;-)