Hello, Readers.
It's a snowy one at the Lamp Post.
A long ride
to a late game
and an even later night store run
prevented my typical Friday night posting.
The good news is
I found a list in my shopping cart.
I love it when I find someone's list!
I love to see if I'm purchasing similar items.
The word of the week is
That's what Eloise has been doing.
Everything from the weather--
to the Erie Times News Open Bowling Tournament
to how well Grandma's body will adjust
to the shock of a joint replacement surgery.
The space between anticipation and actual event
is the gap where faith lives.
I think all of us need a lesson in living comfortably
in that place of the unknown.
Preparedness helps.
Erie alerts issued this warning two days ago.
A major Winter Storm (HARPER)is on the way for Ohio and Pennsylvania. This storm could be the heaviest Winter Storm in a decade for our local area. Winter Storm Watches have been issued for the entire area through the weekend. Get errands and travel plans done Friday! Travel will be very difficult, if not impossible, Saturday through Sunday with heavy snow as well as blowing and drifting snow.Temps will be below zero sunday with blowing snow.
Erie could see 6-12" more in snow belts.Highs will be in the teens sunday.This is only a small draft for snow fall could be more or less.
Reading the comments under this posting was comical.
Erieites are calling crap on the so called
Heaviest Winter Storm of a Decade.
Have they forgotten Christmas Day of 2017?
Apparently so,
as we were stripped of our measure
of 200 inches for the season.
Will Hubby's back hold up?
Has the massage and cupping worked it's magic?
Will the pendulum of sports fashion ever swing back
to short basketball shorts?
While I wait things out,
I fill my time with things I enjoy.
I love looking around the county schools
as we are guests in their gymnasium's each week.
This weekend we will be out in Girard,
home of the Yellow Jackets.
Cool mascot.
I like mascots that have great literary potential.
Who wouldn't want to hang out at a place called
The Hive?
The trend as of late is to decorate school bathroom doors
with inspirational messages.
We have some at Clark school on the outsides of the stalls,
and the insides include reading material
appropriately named
The Toilet Papers.
I do believe Rice Avenue Middle School
may have been the first school to attempt to beautify
the school bathrooms.
I had a rare moment in an empty bathroom last night.
You can't exactly whip out a camera
in a school bathroom without an arrest nowadays.
Kids made some ceramic tiles
and used them as a decorative border.
Pictorial representations
of things to give your life a healthy balance
surrounded the stalls.
Brush your teeth.
Eat your broccoli,
and if you throw in a jalapeno pepper
and what looks to be a potato,
even better!
Some would argue this today.
If sewing machines looked like this at the time
of the art creations,
we can let it slide.
Learn your tools.
Exercise.
Play sports.
Sing a song.
Appreciate the arts.
And damn if I couldn't find what I was looking for.
Darn it.
It had to be there.
And sure enough--
after a thorough stall to stall search
I found it in #3.
That's the best one,
Young Yellow Jacket!
Capture those moments.
Here's my newest on-going project,
which the Young Bees also recognize as
an important life skill,
This is my weather blanket!
My friend Melissa gave me the idea!
You crochet one row a day according to the temperature.
New Year's Day was 47 degrees,
as another day a week later.
Light blue is the 30's,
variegated blue jean blues are 20's.
My late night store run included
new yarn colors for the teens and single digits!
Check back for yearly progress on my blanket.
Stay warm.
Eloise
