If you didn’t read my article last week, then please don’t. I had actually taken my car to the local carwash, been outside and cleaned up a bit in my back yard, and my spouse had cleared the driveway of ice that had dripped from the roof. January is nothin!! But the caveat was that me taking note of how nice the weather was in mid-January may reverse the trend and bring in true January weather.
So today the weather guy is saying 55 degree below zero wind chill for the weekend. “You could get frost bite in just a matter of minutes.” Here’s the reason for my follow up article on the weather. If I can change above average January weather to just plain unbearable weather in a matter of 8 days, maybe there’s a chance for a reversal. In other words, if I talk about it being cold, you know the headache when you walk against the wind cold today, maybe by the time I write this article next week it will reverse the trend. All of that arctic air will return from whence it came, and we will get one of those southwest trade winds and above zero (overnight we are talking) temperatures. It is certainly worth a try.
Lend Me A Soprano-Final Weekend
One of the challenges I have is that the Northern Sentry is a weekly paper and if I see a show I like on Saturday, I can’t do the critics review and recommend you see it until Friday, at best. But folks, Lend Me A Soprano is worth more than the price of the ticket…it’s 2 plus hours of enjoyment and laughing until your side hurts. A little transparency here, it’s not a show designed for kids. Yep, it’s truly adult entertainment. For my friend Dorian, who has been in a lot of theatrical events in Minot, this is his last show before the Air Force moves him to a different location. I want to say thanks to Dorian for entertaining thousands during his Air Force time in Minot.
Back to the show. The plot is really too complicated to describe in this article; you’ll just have to trust me and hurry to the Mouse River Players web site and get a ticket. There are performances on Friday the 23rd, Saturday the 24th and Sunday the 25th.
Cold Weather Makes Great Curling Ice
And even if it doesn’t, there are several opportunities coming up to give curling a try. March 7th is your next opportunity. You’ll find more information on the Minot Curling Club site.
Amy Does It Again
My friend Amy Allendar has once again hit a home run…but it’s because she’s young, agile and a bit crazy. In her latest video she takes on the ice bumper cars at Citizen’s Alley. It’s not a whole lot different than grabbing the old inner tubes at the farm, over-inflating them (once they are patched) and heading to what we used to call “the dugout”, or waterhole. By January the water at the bottom of the dugout was froze over. The original design was for a hole in the ground to gather water for the livestock to drink. On one side there was a huge (well it seemed huge then) pile of dirt that when snow covered made a perfect sledding hill. You would climb to the top, jump on the tube, and of course there was snow on the hill, down you would go. When the tube hit the ice you were sometimes airborne. Eventually you came to a stop. When you are young climbing back up the hill didn’t seem so hard.
The ice bumper cars at Citizen’s Alley are powered…yeah…no stopping. No climbing hills…and the fun goes on forever, or until your time runs out. You may want to watch Amy’s video for some hints on success…but make sure you have a chance to experience the ice bumper cars for yourself.
A Lesson Learned
Today I was walking from my car into a restaurant. I looked up and saw a young Airman headed for an icy spot and thought a bit of fair warning would keep him from ending up slipping and falling. Well, warn him I did. Slip…he still did. And finally, reach out and grab for the closest stable object he saw, which he though was me. Wrong, we both ended up on the ice. Of course, the lesson was not to quit warning people…just warn them from a little farther away so they can’t reach you.
Today’s Chuckle…
Love is blind. Marriage is corrective eye surgery.
