What Up, Weekend / 6 more weeks

6 more weeks of winter, that's what!

Michigan's own Woody the Woodchuck from the Howell Nature Center predicts 6 more weeks of winter.   

She actually has a better track record than Punxsutawney Phil.  He's been correct about 39% of the time and Woody's 79% (we'll just ignore that he's been around over 100 years and Woody only 19)  I mean, come on!  They drag Phil out of his burrow before dawn and of course he will see his shadow because there are spotlights on him!!  If Woody comes out of her house and stays out for at least 30 seconds, that means an early spring.  If she doesn't come out (like today) or runs back in before the 30 seconds are up - 6 more weeks. 

Why not get weather reports from rodents??

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As usual, I'm linking up with Lindsay and all the rest of the awesome peeps of the Peaceful Posse with our collection of  happy / grateful / positive posts.

***I went with my sister last night to an "informational" recruitment meeting for the County Sheriff Mounted Division Search & Rescue Team.  I just went as moral support since I don't live in that county.  Well, we learned that it's open to people in neighboring counties - which would include mine.  So I applied!  It's a new program for the mounted division, but they were looking for people for equine / canine / ATV and ground units.  

It was a 3 page application and it even had a section about the horse!  We had a discussion about which of Laurie's horses would be "mine", altho we already have a pretty big black mark against us because we don't have a horse trailer or even a truck to pull one with, but we could still do ground work.  I think the training sessions would be SO interesting (especially the horse desensitizing)!  They said they do a very thorough background check, so I guess we wait to see what they decide.   

***The first competition of the season is next weekend!  It's gonna be a long day, since it's all on Saturday.  It starts at 8:30 am and Angel doesn't compete until 6pm-ish and awards after 10pm.  She's pretty excited since she's going to be competing as an adult (as she should.)  I'm almost 99.98% positive that the only adult routines we've *ever* seen have been maybe 2 different groups of what looked like parents who threw together a routine in the parking lot that morning and took it on stage.  Hilariously bad routines.  So this'll be awesome. 

***Miss Angela's 2 costumes that needed alterations are safely with the seamstress.  She said she'll have them done Monday.  That'll give us plenty of time to make sure everything is together & ready to go before dress rehearsal next Thursday. 

  

***I can be positive about this now, but I wasn't at the time - lots of overtime this week!  The only other person in my department went home sick early Monday and was out Tuesday - which meant close to an extra 2 hours each day.  I'm OK with it, since both she and one of the supervisors sounded horrible and we really didn't want them there anyway.  Then things popped up at the last minute on Wednesday & Thursday, so tack on an extra 20-30 minutes then.  Fingers crossed I can leave on time today!  

***  Angel took Jack to the groomers for me yesterday to get his nails did.  Hooray!!  Wood floors + long doggie nails + pacing = make me crazy.

*** Bowling last weekend was a hoot!  It was the fundraiser for the studio and there was a great turnout.  I haven't heard any $$ yet, but the 50/50 winner went home with $450.  Not too shabby!  I didn't win anything from the raffle, but Laurie won an aerial drone photo of her choice.  One of the studio dads is an FAA certified drone pilot (I didn't even know this was a thing).  This is perfect for her, since the prior owner of her farm had an aerial photo done and she's got it framed in her hall.  So she can have then & now photos!   

We consider it a successful game if we break 100 - which I did both games! 

*** It was so nice outside last weekend (like upper 40s / low 50s nice) so I got the front yard and a small part of the back raked.  I got a nasty blister (even with gloves!) on my right hand that's still not healed, but it was worth it.  It looked so nice.....and then it snowed again.  But I'm OK with that.  I know it was done!

***I ordered our tickets to go see the Monster trucks next month.  The first show of the year is tomorrow night, but the later one always seems to work better for us.  There has only been 1 year we've missed since I got out of the Navy (2000) and that was due to an ice storm.  

***Girl Scout cookies by mail!  I was able to order from the little girl's (from the studio, of course) personal link so she gets credit for the sale. 

No really exciting plans for this weekend.  Randy's looking forward to playing on the radio, doing a contest so that'll keep him busy all Saturday.  It's over at 7pm, and he's already told me he wants to go to Bad Brad's BBQ for dinner.  Who am I to argue with that???  I really need to scrub out the fridge where a pop can exploded.  That's almost as exciting as my deep cleaning the bathrooms last weekend!   

We really don't care about the Super Bowl.  But, yes, we will watch it.  I bought squares from work so I want to see if I get some $$.  And the commercials. And Justin Timberlake.  Oh yeah! 

Anything fun going on with you?