Well, I bought a snowblower.

It will be delivered sometime in late February so expect sunny days and no snow at all during March and April.

In the meantime, with my luck being the way it is, I expect it will snow before the new one arrives.

I guess I'll just keep praying to the snowblower gods that The Beast keeps on rolling along.

⧫
I checked the Olympic medal count but I'm not entirely sure it's accurate. According to the talking heads on NBC, the US is in fourth place in the medal standings but the website says otherwise:

Maybe they only update the website at the end of the day.

⧫
I watched a little of the NESN "Spring Training" show today and captured this scene:

It's gonna be a great baseball season.

⧫
Time for an update on the latest addition to our family

She has started rolling over. My son says it was probably just an accident but once that starts, they usually quickly figure out how to do it. And that means she is close to becoming mobile.

That is when the fun will begin for her parents.

She is, of course, the perfect baby.

⧫
Here are some links:

• Damn. He was the perfect "consigliere" to Brando's Godfather but I loved him in Second Hand Lions and as far as I'm concerned, his reply to John Wayne in True Grit was one of the great line deliveries in movie history.



• Only in Florida.



• I realize that this might be considered "unAmerican" but I feel bad for the people of Cuba.



• That's a lot of crabs.