Ten Degrees and Getting Colder
Cold Sunrise That's just the name of the song written by Gordon Lightfoot. It was actually -13 F when I got up this morning (wind chill -24). Tucson may have pulled back into the lead! There's a lot of weighing pros and cons of Colorado vs Arizona by the wood stove. Not much else to report. I did enjoy a few games of pool and a beer with my brother this week. We don't get together very often, so it's good to try to keep the lines of communication open, especially with my mother celebrating her 86th birthday next month. He lives in Milwaukee and just started semi-retirement. Our opposing politics and lifestyles keep things very casual and surface-level. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's important to find common ground. He and his wife have started going to concerts and recently saw the Steve Miller Band. Music is one of our common interests.
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My nephew is over there at the Vintage World Champion Snowmobile Derby. This morning, with no prior warning, I got to watch him crash on the Derby's Facebook feed. Yeah, I can think of better ways to start my day - - - (he's OK and back out on the track but with a wife and young daughter now, not to mention a farm to run, you'd think he might give these shenanigans up!)
Snowmobile racing is one of those adrenaline sports that is dangerous but apparently really fun. Crashing brings us all back down to earth. On a much different scale, I get that adrenaline rush when I'm thumbing down on my ATV throttle a bit heavier than I should on my long driveway. Speaking of which, my driveway is over 100 yards long so I don't shovel much snow. I have a plow on the atv for snow removal, and a heavy duty multi-stage snowblower for when the drifts get too high to plow. I take it nice and snow with the plow down on the asphalt. Our region of Wisconsin hasn't had much snow so far this winter, but it's a lot more of winter left. That derby is in Eagle River about three or four hours north of me.