The basketball team from my hometown of Crothersville competed in the boys sectional contest last night — just as they have since 1914. The Crothersville Tigers had never won… and they still haven’t. They remain one of only two teams in the state of Indiana that have never taken home the title.
The Tigers lost by 12 to the West Washington Senators and were runners-up once again. This loss was especially difficult since they beat the Senators by double digits in regular season play. Defeat is never easy — and losing doesn’t get easier no matter how many times you experience it.
I may live in Seymour and root for the Owls in sporting events, but I’m still a Tiger at heart. Here’s looking forward to next year!
And here’s looking forward to spring, too! How about this for a view in early March?
“Turn your heat up a degree or two a day before the arctic blast arrives. If you typically turn down the heat at night, don’t do that during the next couple days. Your furnace will struggle to keep up and will not be able to catch up.”
VS.
“…set your heat to 67 degrees or lower…”
Even with the conflicting suggestions about the best way to approach home heating, it’s plenty warm in here and I made a HUGE amount of homemade chicken noodles that will last all day (and likely all week).
My puppies are conflicted too — they are ready to come in directly after they complain they want to go out. Five minutes later, they think they want out again. Once outside, they remember how frigid it is and are peering in the door waiting on it to open.
I can’t remember a time the mail didn’t run (no mail delivery today) or that a bank opened with a delay. More snow predicted — not a whole lot, but enough to keep the roads slick — and if a picture really is worth 1,000 words, here’s the whole story:
CNN says this is the coldest air in a generation… among other notable facts…
Y’all know it’s cold if you can’t get beer delivered. 🙂
You know this is meant for you if you have MOVED AWAY from a location with a cold winter season, (like Crothersville, Uniontown, or Seymour, Indiana) to another place with a warm climate. You are a deserter and you’re missing THIS:
Again (for the bajillionth time) I LOVE snow. What I despise is freezing cold and windy. I also deplore so-cold-your-face-freezes weather — like what is supposed to roll in here next week (-30°F windchill — high in negative digits).
Thinking about deserters made me wonder why people stay in cold US climates . Poll results at https://city-data.com provided answers and none mentioned cost of living.
The TOP THREE main reason are:
I like the 4 distinct seasons (54%)
My family is here (24%)
I don’t like the politics in the south (22%)
If you’re a deserter, at least one of the following reasons will describe you:
You fear change
You love yourself more than you love your family and your cold heart is happiest without being brought down by parents, children or siblings
Although the door is open and friends are welcome, I’ve not had one visitor tonight. Probably because it’s only 17 degrees with 40 MPH winds— nothing to do with the snow. Jackson County, Indiana is currently on the big ole’ red warning — emergency traffic only — a “disaster emergency” declared.
I’m not bored though, because Facebook is great fun during winter storms!
People reporting that there are no cashiers at Wal-mart (so what else is new) with self-checkout options only… and many shared that they’ve lost power, too. County sheriff’s shared videos of slide-offs — the worst was a vehicle in Jennings County that slid off the road and was totally submerged in water. Don’t even want to think about how cold that rescue was!
Most entertaining of all is reading posts from FB friends claiming this storm is going to be bigger than the one in 1978 — the people who said that were obviously not alive in 1978. 🙂
