A Pennsylavania Blizzard

Yesterday we went through an absolute nightmare trying to get my car out of the pile of snow it was stuck in. The local roads & bridges around here are all in very bad shape. KrissyKrissyKrissy just got home & said they're nowhere near as good as they're supposed to be. I'm not looking forward to driving to Wilkes_Barre tomorrow. Fortunately, spring is only a little over a month away but it can't possibly come soon enough for me. I can't go to the library & my e_mail accounts are overflowing. I've been reading that Dickens book like the Dickens. I suppose I should get a haircut but I'm in no big hurry.

All White Now

As far as the eye can see, there's snow & ice. Everything's closed down. Even by Pa. standards, it's really bad out. Kingston's library's roof caved in. The lunatic next door was out with a shovel all night. I wonder what will happen with the Carmelite meeting on Saturday. KrissyKrissyKrissy is stranded, last I heard anyway, over in N.Y. where it's all ice. It's safe around here but all very seriously annoying. The great St. Valentine's Day blizzard will go down in history as a real winner. I most certainly don't even kind of envy anybody who lives in a really mountainous region.

Happy Snowy Icy Valentine's Day

The calendar says it's the Feast of St. Cyril & Methodius. The weatherman says it's a day for rain, ice sleet & hail. If somebody doesn't have to go someplace, he shouldn't. I feel sorry for anyone who's unavoidably forced to travel in this weather. So far, I reckon we must have at least around 8" of snow & ice. Hang around, read, work around the house. Lindenhurst's KofC bingo people, who play each Wednesday, must be having quite a veritable cow right about now. Maybe they'll at least get a break in time for tomorrow night.

Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow

I haven't seen a for really and for truly blizzard over here since I first officially got here but alas, today's supposed to be my big moment of truth. I keep hearing that we're in for a bit of a doozy. In the famous Citizen's Voice, they even said that at least one KofC(Wilkes_Barre) council has officially cancelled tonight's meeting. I'm most certainly not looking forward to Saturday's Carmelite meeting in this weather because that roly poly South Street must be quite a doozy in very bad weather. I see they're coming out with a new $1 coin on Thursday. I've never been able to understand why people have always complained about the Susan B. Anthony & famous Indian Woman coin. I've always really liked them. They've never been the least bit popular though, unfortunately.

Party & meeting

As I said last night, yesterday's birthday party & last night's Holy Name Society were both quite groovy. Most of the kinfolk made the party & only Fr. Walsh & a few other regulars were absent from the meeting. I can't handle all that eating though. There was no hooch I knew of at the party but at the meeting there was the inevitable beer, wine & whisky. The meeting was, as usual, fairly short so I got home in time to go to bed at a civil hour. Howard wanted to know why my parents insisted on joining St. Joseph's & there was the inevitable whining about ushers. We're planning a nice party for St. Patrick's Day too. I don't suppose their parades over here can possibly compete with Manhattan's but it should be quite a very nice time. I hope by then the weather will at least be a smidge nicer.

Benjamin's Birthday Party

Today we spent most of the day at Benjamin's birthday party. His third birthday's really on Valentine's Day. He's Aunt Lauren's grandson & Michelle's son. Noreen & all the gang were there, including many friends & kinfolk of theirs whom I hadn't ever even met before. They live in a really nice mountainous neighborhood in Dallas. The food was groovy. A splendid time was had by all. In a little while I shall be going to the Holy Name Society meeting at O.L.Sorrows. There will be even more food to pig out on. I found out today at Mass that the Society of St. Pius X has organized a Million Rosaries Crusade as a spiritual bouquet for Pope Benedict XVI. I shall have more to say about this later. The weather is still cold but at least it's nowhere near as ugly as upstate New York.