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There are a few things in life that I just don't like, and one of them is heavy snowfall in the middle of April.  Most of it fell on Sunday, the 14th, and on Monday we spent most of the morning clearing it out.  Lots of work was put into wrestling the snowblower around, but then here comes a snowplow and completely plugs the driveway.  It took another hour working to clear it away.  That's only half of it.  Mary got stalled at her Dad's place and her car still sits there.  I need to go clear snow there now so as to get it home.  Maybe we get these things happening to us so that we appreciate more the good things.

 The storm pretty well paralyzed both Bismarck and Mandan on Sunday and Monday.  Many establishments closed for the day.  I was looking for something in Sheldon's 125th anniversary book and saw a picture of an early memory.  Vern Loomer and his Caterpiller were the only way to clear roads in the latter 1940's.  I still remember riding to school and looking out the window at the high walls of snow canyon that his rig gouged.  (Rotary snowblowers were an awfully great invention.) 

The neighbors were out clearing snow at the same time.  Twin sons in the 7th grade live next door.  I hadn't seen them much this winter, and it was quite a surprise to see how they've grown.  They're on a basketball team that's really winning a lot of games, some kind of a league that will play much of the summer. One plays center (he's some taller) and the other plays forward.  I think I will have to start following the team when they reach high school.  I think that group will be one we'll be hearing from.

I wonder if the old moniker of "Imperial Cass" still sticks in the minds of our legislators.  Fargo wants state money to fund their flood diversion dreams.  Yesterday the state senate took it up and it looks to me that anti-Fargo forces hid behind waiting for federal funds.  Maybe everyone in the state wants that piece of state money pie and are glad to  see Fargo not getting it. 
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Who has the answer to stop terror attacks?  Sure, culprits are caught and punished after the act, but that doesn't ever deter future attacks.  Hate and revenge keep recurring.  So much for our open society for it will become more and more closed.  People, old and young alike, out for a good time, are targets.  Will the Boston Marathon ever be the same?  Organizers are saying it will be bigger and better, but that's false bravado.

The parents of the twenty slaughtered students in Connecticut were on a roll in Washington as they'd started bending some ears to listen to their point of view.  Then something like Boston happens and completely smothers the national media's attention.  It happens time and again.  Some had started calling it the Gunfight at the DC Corral.

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When it comes to snow, we know Ole and Lena are close by:  Ole and Lena are sitting at their dining room table, listening to the radio and watching it snow out. All of a sudden there is a big message on the radio, "There is a snow emergency, please park your car on the odd side of the street." So Ole puts on his clothes and goes out to move his car. The next day the same thing, another snow emergency and the radio says, "Please park your car on the even side of the street." So Ole goes and parks his car on the even side of the street. A few days later there's a really bad snow storm and the radio says, "There's been a snow emergency please move your car to the ..." and the radio goes out. And Lena says to Ole, "Oh, forget it. Just leave your car in the garage this time.
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A car that sat up the street from us stood almost buried.  The snowfall did a big number on it, but then the snowplow pushed up a huge wall against it.  The owner will have to do a lot of shoveling.

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