More Snow. I am so glad it doesn't bother me. I keep telling people that old man winter doesn't even GET here until February, and stays all through March and into April, but every year, people keep expecting spring to start arriving in late Feb. It really cracks me up. The kids will wear winter clothes until at least 3 weeks AFTER Easter.

It's really funny to me how the whole scheme doesn't change, even though the weather pattern did. Easter clothes continue to be sleeveless pretty dresses which are not warm.

And so, Easter dresses do NOT get seen, unless the church is way warmed up. Coats are worn and kept on during Mass. How funny is that?

Yet, when school starts in late August, school clothes are winter clothes, and kids wear shorts here in NE Ohio until well into October.


But, since the fashion mavins and the stores haven't caught on and haven't changed, I get to buy every season clothing on clearance, so, hey, works for me.

I expect snow to be on the ground now until the first week in April.

I am looking through Gurney's seed catalog now, shopping for the garden. I am too cheap to buy plants, so go with the seeds. You can do a whole HUGE garden for under $50 if you do seeds.

The seed people are a little bit more in tune with the actual weather. They don't give dates anymore, they say “plant WELL after last frost'. Well here, that means I will be planting my spring veggies in May.


I was supposed to be at a meeting this morning at 8:30. I did not make it. Another 3 inches fell overnight. The PT Cruiser “useless car” does NOT go in the snow. So, neither do I.


Pint is hard at work on a paper for school. Sigh. I will have to write the teacher a note.

The assignment is to write THREE PARAGRAPHS on a famous person you like.

She picked Sir Elton John. I know, I know, I have weird kids. Now remember, Pint is only 8 years old.

So far, the paper is three typed single spaced pages long, with an audiovisual presentation. She hasn't yet asked me to help her with a PowerPoint presentation, but I can see it coming.

The assignment isn't due till, well, we don't actually KNOW when it is due. The paper TELLING us about the assignment, and having a spot to put down WHOM you are going to write about was due yesterday.


Not my Pint. She pretty much has the thing done already. And no, she isn't that anal retentive.

I think she is just really excited at having to do something more than add numbers, and take spelling tests.

And, by the way, the only help I have given her was to actually type in elton john into google and look at the results BEFORE she did.

And the only reason I did that much, was because, Baby, when she was around 10 or so, had to do a paper on 'butterflies'. She used Hotbot then, google wasn't around yet.

And came and got me. The first 10 or so sites that came up were all pornographic lesbian sites. From the word Butterfly.

So, I thought, well, I'd best see what pops up when you google Elton John, LOL.

Turns out there is an EltonJohn(dot)com. Good on then. And,.......(drum roll) a bio page on the site.

Anyway, I will have to drop Teacher a note and explain that Pint is going a bit overboard on this one.

Maybe I can have her write TWO papers. One, three paragraphs long, and the other the way SHE feels the paper should be written, and turn them both in. Let the teacher decide which one.

Nursey finally got moved. Baby and boyfriend turned up at our house last night to sleep. They helped Nursey move, since Baby is moving with her.

There wasn't actually room on the uhaul for any of Baby's furniture or things. Sigh. This is going to be a big move for Baby.

Funny part is, when Nursey was an 18 year old college student, and first moved to Pittsburgh...she rented an apt with three roomates.


And, IT IS THE SAME EXACT APARTMENT that she rented now. Has had an 'extreme makover' done to it. But how funny is that. 11 years later, to the same apartment??

Anyway, Baby is going from an extremely small town of under 3000 people where she has lived her entire life, to a suburb of Pittsburgh. And, she doesn't even know how to get to the apartment.

Brave girl. She is growing up fast. She will be 19 next month. I am glad she is moving in with her older sister, who can herd her through the 'how to live in a big city' thingy. Makes me much less scared about Baby moving.