I got all my outside stuff done and I'm now, comfortably, sealed in my apartment and ready to hibernate until tomorrow.
I went to the library and picked up THREE movies so I have plenty of entertainment.
I guess everyone else had the same idea. I never saw the library so busy. There wasn't a single parking space that was empty. I do believe every child in La Crosse County under the age of 10 was there.
NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 40 TO 55 MPH OVER
THE DAKOTAS INTO WESTERN AND NORTHERN MINNESOTA WERE OCCURRING
IMMEDIATELY BEHIND AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT. EXPECT THESE STRONG WINDS
TO SPREAD NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION BETWEEN 3 AND 6
PM AS THE ARCTIC FRONT MOVES THROUGH...THEN PERSIST THROUGH MUCH
OF THE EVENING.
THE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO GRADUALLY DIMINISH AFTER
MIDNIGHT. PLAN ON TEMPERATURES TO PLUMMET AS WELL AS THE STRONG
NORTHWEST WINDS DRIVE IN ARCTIC AIR. ST CLOUD MINNESOTA DROPPED
NEARLY 10 DEGREES IN 1 HOUR WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE ARCTIC FRONT.
EXPECT READINGS ACROSS THE REGION TO FALL INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS
AND LOWER TEENS BY MIDNIGHT.
There's a video below of the Everly Brothers singing "Bye Bye Love" to celebrate Phil Everly's birthday today.
I can't remember getting out of bed this morning but I was able to sing along, while I watched that video, and I remembered every word in that song without even thinking about it.
I LIKE IT! I know it's silly, goofy and quirky but it's also slick, quick and the joke is on the young kids every time. At my age, I think that's funny.
I still have a few tracks by Bobby! Remember that old tearjerker "Sunny" by Goldsboro?
Funny his name comes up. I just saw his name yesterday in a catalog we received, Russell's For Men ... a manly catalog of things like cigar cutters and leather vests and cowboy gear and BB guns. One of the items offered was a painting by Bobby Goldsboro, pictured in a Hemmingway setting over a desk holding a typewriter and whiskey flask. Seems Bobby is quite the artist now.
STRONG WINDS WILL FOLLOW AN ARCTIC FRONT PLOWING THROUGH THE
UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY REGION LATE SATURDAY. PLAN ON
WINDS SWITCHING TO THE NORTHWEST AND INCREASING TO 25 TO 35 MPH
WITH GUSTS UP OF 40 TO 50 MPH. LOOK FOR THE WINDS TO GRADUALLY
DIMINISH AFTER MIDNIGHT SATURDAY NIGHT. TEMPERATURES WILL RAPIDLY
FALL AS WELL WITH THE STRONG WINDS...DROPPING INTO THE SINGLE
DIGITS AND TEENS BY MIDNIGHT SATURDAY NIGHT.
I have to get used to staying up a little later. Rita and I are going to the Community theater, Thursday night, to see "Hamlet". The first production in their new theater. It starts at 7:30. That means I could be up until almost 11. I was, probably, around 40 the last time I stayed up until 11 at night.
If you're old enough to think our language, manners and politeness in America has crashed and burned you've got to read her column today. I couldn't resist sharing it with you from THE NEW YORK POST
If the weatherman is right and we get wind chills as low as 20 below I don't want to go outside and "experience" it. I already know what 20 below feels like.
I know my strongest and fondest memories have been of my 20's but I always thought it was because my 20's were in the 60's which is one of the most memorable decades of all time. Turns out that our brain tends to give preference to the memories from that time of life. It's all in an interesting article you might want to read here.