Six More Weeks of Winter

Groundhog Day was today. Phil in Pennsylvania say his shadow after he was pulled out of his tree and held up and then put on a table, and the head honcho of the festivities said that Phil had seen his shadow and there will be 6 more weeks of winter. So, the warmish weather in the midwest turned cold this afternoon, and the arctic wind has come back. So, maybe by the middle of March we will get the beginnings of Spring. March and April are unpredictible for weather. It may be a while till the shorts-sandals-Tshirts season gets here. At FEMA they are probably praying for a calm spring and summer with no or mild tornadoes and hurricanes, since there may be little money in the US treasury to pay for any major weather disasters. The ice storms that hit Arkansas and Kentucky last week knocked down thousands of power poles and electric lines and about half a million people are electricityless. A volcano in southern Alaska has been rumbling and in Anchorage people are waiting to see if ash covers the city, like happened in Washington when St. Helen's blew up about 30 years ago. Mike Phelps got caught sniffing something from a bong at the U of South Carolina back in November. The Super Bowl was an exciting game in the last quarter last night. The Steelers finally won. More next blogging. The woman in California who had 8 babies has 6 other kids(3 sets of twins), no job, and no man(the kids are all testtube). Her parents are not happy about the whole thing. Obama is having trouble filling his Cabinet, because he keeps picking honchos with bad tax problems. Daschle is behind payment on 145 thousand bucks, and claims he didn't know he was delinquent. It was a busy week for Events, and I should get into some news websites to see what has been going on, and it would not hurt to read some newspapers to see what is going on. My first winter of being retired has become very disorganized, and I need to get Life organized, since I have a long time to live in this phase of life. More and more people are losing their jobs. The Macys company is laying off at least 7,000 people. I suppose that will hit the Marshal Fields store in Chicago. I have been doing a lot of writing about the weather, but Weather affects our lives. This is going to be all for right now. More later. Di di mau!