Odds and Ends

It started to snow here about 3 yesterday afternoon - there's about 6 inches on the ground here at the apartment. Bea and I are going to have brunch at Turley's this morning, then go over to "the big house" and watch movies and talk today... I've got a nice, plump roasting hen for the oven, as well as potatoes and carrots (and I'll make gravy), I'm cooking buttery, peppered green beans, and I'll make brownies. We also have a white-almond cake with chocolate butter cream icing from Lucky's bakery that I picked up yesterday, just as it began to snow.

   Skippy slept with me again last night; Finn barked a couple of times from his room, but there was nothing visible outside - I think he wanted company, more than anything else, but he's not allowed to run free inside at night. Rosie and Remy had a blast out walking and playing yesterday, and I met Katie, who will be staying with them this week.

   The CSU Rams defeated Missouri in the March Madness tourney Thursday, and will play Louisville today. The CU Buffs lost to Illinois yesterday, Georgetown lost, and the Florida Gators won. .... There was another arson incident at an abandoned house in Modest Town on Metompkin Road in Accomack County, Virginia on Thursday night. This fire makes 72 confirmed arson incidents since 12 November of last year. .... The last big north-easter did a lot of damage to the beach on the Virginia end of Assateague Island, according to reports. .... The Mayor of Gainesville, Florida has made the news - he was found asleep at the wheel of his crashed car about 12 miles outside of town. He was charged with DUI, having a blood alcohol level of .069 and with one count of property damage. The car was lodged in a ditch on the side of the road. Mayor Craig Lowe is scheduled to be in a run-off election for the Mayoralty next month. .... And, for some reason, folks are raising their brows over the fact that Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is a good friend of the father of a man accused of two murders in Texas and a deadly shoot-out in Texas. John has been a good friend of Evan Ebel's father for over 30 years, and is extremely sorrowful that his friend's son has turned out to be such a bad apple. The young man is believed to have killed a Denver-area pizza delivery driver and then used that man's pizza work jacket and a delivery box to get the head of the Colorado Prison system to open the door to his house. Tom Clements, the prison director, was shot and killed in his doorway. The young man ended up in a shoot out with police and sheriff's officers in Texas. Evan Ebel had been in prison here in Colorado for murder, and had joined a white supremacy gang while serving time. It is currently thought that Mr. Clements was killed in "a gang hit" and that Governor Hickenlooper's and Mr. Eben's friendship have absolutely no ties to the killing. (Talk about strange twists and turns of fate!)