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White Devil Snow

2007-04-05

Good morning Boys and Girls!

It's a lovely January day here in Michigan. Not too much new snow last night; maybe an inch and a half. It's cold and so very windy that my sturdy tripod-based deer feeder blew over again. This is very upsetting in that it was designed and built by the same incredible mind that brought the world "Jesus Reporting by surrogate."

And wait a minute. It's not January. It's frigging APRIL!

Today, I made plans to play hooky with a friend of mine.

Last year he and I tried to steal away on four different occasions to play golf during the week. By the end of the season, it had become a joke. The first two times, it rained like crazy - which it had to, to keep us from playing, since a mere shower is not about to get the job done. Then in August, we'd both decided to take a Thursday afternoon off, confident the rain couldn't get us again. It didn't. Instead, his daughter decided to get appendicitis - something, he said, after she'd recovered from the operation and was well again and back on her feet - he was quite sure she'd secretly planned just to keep us from golfing.

I've never met his daughter, but I know how badly some women hate it when men play golf, especially when they ought to be working, so I accepted this logic unquestioningly.

In late September, we KNEW we'd be able to sneak away and made plans to do so, going so far as to make a tee time at a very expensive course, giving each other the mental high-five over the phone when we confirmed our plans for the next day. He lives about ninety miles away, which is why making the plans was a must and why a spur of the moment thing was never possible.

It poured. I mean... it POURED...

No biggie. It's just golf.

But this year? We figured we'd get it out of the way early.

Last week, as we both worked in shirtsleeves on Wednesday at the single account where we run into each other, we decided that we'd play today. It was about 75 degrees last Wednesday and I was actually sweating as I worked. I'd played the weekend before and was ready to rock. He'd played too and said he was hitting the ball well. Cool.

We set the big match for today.

Well?

It's a lovely January day here in Michigan. Not too much new snow last night; maybe an inch and a half. It's cold and so very windy that my sturdy tripod-based deer feeder blew over again...

Life is funny.


Be good to everyone.

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Sharon\'s Office Support (2007-04-07)
LOL! I, too, live in Michigan and am looking out the window over a small lake. The other day a guy was out fishing with his shirt off. Boy, does he need a TAN! Well, not today. My outside therm says 23.3. So much for Global Warming??????? I lived in Denver (LOVED it)in the early 80's. Got a GREAT start on a tan in April ONE year:)

Barnabus (2007-04-05)
No Golf? No Joy!!!

surrogate (2007-04-05)
Yeah, but that's Denver. According to my wishes, here, it's supposed to be nice by now. Oh. My wishes don't mean diddly? Damn.

DELETE ME PLEASE (2007-04-05)
I remember last janurary it hit -10F here in Denver for like 2 straight weeks, and it was -25 to -30 with the windchill. My my that was cold, but that is Denver the temp ranges from -10 to 110 and it does snow here in April and might in July I have seen it ~]~

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