SNOW

[Mortblanc]

Being from the deep south I used to hang out with may of those strict fundamentalist lads and I learned something real quick.

You never take just one of them fishing, you always take two.

If you take just one he will drink up all your beer!

If you take two along they will not touch the stuff for fear the other one will rat them out to the Congregation!

I took a little road trip yesterday to do some shopping. 200 miles to Bardstown by way of Louisville. I passed three different distilleries on the journey. One being the oldest in the U.S.

It got me all historically emotional, thinking about all those pioneer mash boilers fighting off Indians and rushing home to tend the still, so I had to come home and finish off the last ounce of a bottle of Evan Williams I have been testing for possible stockpiling for the Apocalypse.

Now I will tie this all back to the thread by mentioning that I ran into a small blizzard about 25 miles outside of Louisville and drove in it for the remaining 75 miles home with the roads getting more dangerous by the minute. I arrived here at the house to find that it had only left about an inch on the ground but a bitter wind chill came with it.

We are not getting the big snows, just these little irritating covers that ice the roads and cause people to go insane behind the wheel.

Then the weather babe comes on TV and tells us that we have had 10"-12" total accumulation so far during the fall and winter, but it came 1/2" at a time and some of it melted before sunrise and we ever knew it was there!