Sightings from the Poop Deck


It's February 8, 2025 and we're hunkering down awaiting our first really significant snowfall of the 2024/2025 winter season. I have been fortunate this winter. The recent snowfalls have been a very light powder so I was able to use my Echo leaf blower to clean off the walkways and my truck. I don't know how closely "Brewster's Finest" will monitor and enforce cleaning the snow off your vehicle, but I'm not taking any chances. On a trip to Florida I once saw a very large slab of ice come off the roof of a tractor trailer, which could have done some real damage. Fortunately it did nor hit any vehicles.

Speaking of Florida, I really miss those trips and many friends down in Fort Myers. After 15+ years our vacations south ended with the COVID outbreak in 2020. That was the year all beaches, pools, restaurants and churches closed and to top it all off, you couldn't buy a roll of toilet paper. That was nasty. Don't ever remember having to stand in line waiting for the Publix truck to roll in with life-saving TP! If you were fortunate enough to have a quart of milk, a loaf of bread, a dozen eggs, or a brand new fifth of Johnny Walker Black, you may have been able to trade it for 1,000 sheets of Scotts. Saw many dogs taking their masters for an early morning walk.

In anticipation of tomorrow's Super Bowl, I have my firewood neatly stacked and ready for the woodstove. Since the kickoff isn't until 6:30pm, I may have to prepare myself with a brief nap. Naps, at my age, have become an essential and necessary part of my day. There are times when Joan will give me a list of things to be done around the house while I am napping, and then wonder why nothing ever gets done. 

Anyway, it's "time to make the doughnuts" so until next time, get those snow blowers cranked up, but keep your fingers crossed that the storm stalls over Buffalo. Our friends up there don't get excited about this little stuff.

/prs ("Life is Good!") 

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