A cold snowy day with Lake Affect Snow Piling-up here!! The Snowblower didn't want to participate, so I connected the electric starter to it and sent the snow a flying.
Time to warm-up and for some reason, burning a fruit cake never came to mind. Likely because, I would see that as a terrible waste of Good Rum!! But, if someone else wanted to torch a fruit cake, well, have at it!!
Julio just kept staring at me while he stood aside 'His' glass enclosed gas-fired, fireplace, likely thinking the same thing as he glanced over at the Admiral's Grade, Island Rum!
A look out the windows proved that the work, outside, to remove the five inches (125 mm) of snow was a waste of time as an additional three inches (75 mm) has gathered with more coming down.
Our local TV station with near all new /young Weather experts were busy explaining that Global Warming (I guess they are call it Climate Change, now) will result in more snow for us in the Winter time. The sad part of getting old is one remembers Trick-or-Treating in a Snow Storm and Thanksgiving's with near 40 inches of snow on the ground (about one meter) and playing Golf on Christmas Day. Its Michigan, we get Weather and Weather predictors' get it so wrong, so often, that they now use three, or more, weather models to show us what might happen, maybe!!
Sipping on a bit of Rum and thinking that in my next life, I will be a Weather Predictor, get paid very well and just move-on to the next storm, happy that people have short memories!!
FYI: Over the last 20 to 25,000 years, the World has become warmer and the Oceans have raised 4 to 600 feet. I predict that by 2035, it will be warmer and the Oceans will continue to raise -or- we will sink back into an Ice Age. Payment (or tips) are accepted to assure that a Great Rum will always be available!!
A Very Merry Christmas Good Friends!!
