What we do for fun in the winter

Winter is coming so here is a fun thing to do in your down, name the plow. It has been done before so see if you can be more original than the lists below.

In Salt Lake City the city's divisions of Transportation, Engineering & Streets announced the winners of the contest to name the snowplows. The names chosen were:

·         Sled Zeppelin (the overall winner)

·         Flake Effect

·         Snowy McSnowface

·         Rudy Snowbert

·         Jon Bon Snowvi

·         The Notorious P.L.O.W.

·         Ice Eccles

·         Snowbi Wan Kenobi

·         No More Mr. Ice Guy

·         Sugar Plows

Calgary did the same:

A partial list of winning names can be found below:

·         Abominable Snow Plow

·         Beluga

·         Big Friendly Plow

·         Blizzard Blaster

·         Blizzard of Oz

·         Blizzard Wizard

·         Bob

·         Bonhomme Déneige

·         Brinestone Plowboy

·         Calgary Plower

·         Calgary Snowflames

·         Chinook

·         Chippy

·         Darth Blader

·         Double Trouble Shovel

·         For Your Ice Only

·         Frostbite

·         Kóónsskoyi (snow covered)

·         La Charrue (plow/blade)

·         L'échasse-neige (snow chaser)

·         Let It Snow

·         Lizard Snow Grabber

·         Marda Scoop

·         You Didn't!

·         Pickle

·         Plow Patrol

·         Polar Patroller

·         Princess Sleighia

·         Road Zamboni

·         Rocky Mountain Snow Plow

·         altbertasaurus Rex

·         Schneepflug (snow plow)

·         si’kssopo (Chinook)

·         Sir Snows-a-Lot

·         Sled Zepplin

·         Slushie

·         'no Problem

·         Snow Angel

·         Snow Buster

·         Snowcone

·         Snow Destroyer

·         Snowy McSnow Face

·         Sparkles

·         Sprinkles

·         Supertruck

·         Susie Snow Plow

·         Plow

·         You're a Blizzard, Harry!

·         YYC Plowers

As did Vermont and here is a partial list of names;

·         Astro

·         Wolf Tracks

·         Salty

·         Snowpez

·         Barnet Storm Breaker

·         Snow Destroyer

·         Eye of the Tiger

·         Snowy the Plow

·         No Snow

·         Yogi

·         Frosty's Demise

·         Stardust

·         The Maple Machine

·         The Snowlebrator

·         Blizzard

·         Snow Day Crusher

·         Midnight Monster

·         Scrapes the Snowplow

·         Homeschooling Students        Ripton William Scrape-speare

·         Hyde Park Elementary School            Hyde Park       Snow Hawk

·         Ice Will Pay the Price

·         Maple Snow Racer

·         Hot Cocoa

·         PAWS

·         Bob the Plower

·         Luke Snow Walker

·         Wildcat Winter

 

What do you do at school?

The twins have started pre-school and have been going for a while. We were visiting and so I asked full of curiosity, "What do you do at school?" My follow-up was going to be "How do you like it so far?".

The twins are two rambunctious little boys who love to tear around and they never seem to sit down. However, I was surprised by their answer, which was, " We sit." Their mom reacted very quickly and showed us all of the stuff they were doing. And she talked about how they really like school. The boys did say they liked what they were doing, and they enjoyed playing with their new friends.

I found it interesting that when asked about school, they both responded with the same idea. "We sit." Part of the reason for young children to attend pre-school is to help them socialize and learn skills that they will need in Kindergarten, through to grade 12. One of the first rules is that you cannot run around as much as you want to, you have to sit.

They have learned the first lesson, I wonder if the teachers realize that is what the twins understand about school. School is important and we there is evidence that pre-school is important for the preparation of students when entering grade 1. Socialization is important because in pre-school and kindergarten we learn the rules of life and how to get along with people outside of our immediate family. We also begin to expand our worldview as we see others behaving in ways we may not have been aware. 

A few years ago there was a book called “All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum. Here is an excerpt from the book, All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten

ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile

at Sunday School. These are the things I learned:

·       Share everything.

·       Play fair.

·       Don't hit people.

·       Put things back where you found them.

·       Clean up your own mess.

·       Don't take things that aren't yours.

·       Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

·       Wash your hands before you eat.

·       Flush.

·       Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.

·       Live a balanced life - learn some and think some

·       and draw and paint and sing and dance and play

·       and work every day some.

·       Take a nap every afternoon.

·       When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic,

·       hold hands, and stick together.

·       Be aware of wonder.

·       Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup:

o  The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

o  Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die.

o  So do we.

·       And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK. 

·       Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.

·       The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation.

·       Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

·       Take any of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or

your world and it holds true and clear and firm.

·       Think what a better world it would be if all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had a basic policy to always put thing back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

·       And it is still true, no matter how old you are - when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

Quotes about golf

Here are 25 of the best ones said by some pretty well known names: Thanks to Swing by Swing golf for these

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. — Grantland Rice

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. — John Updike

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. — Robert Lynd

If profanity had any influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is. — Horace G. Hutchinson

They say golf is like life, but don’t believe them. Golf is more complicated than that. — Gardner Dickinson

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork as poorly as they do a golf club, they’d starve to death. — Sam Snead

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. — William Wordsworth

If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt. — Dean Martin

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don’t have to waste energy going back to pick it up. — Tommy Bolt

Man blames fate for all other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole-in-one. — Bishop Sheen

I don’t say my golf game is bad, but if I grew tomatoes they’d come up sliced. — Arnold Palmer

My handicap? Woods and irons. — Chris Codiroli

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flag stick on top. — Pete Dye

I’m hitting the woods just great; but having a terrible time getting out of them! — Buddy Hackett

The only time my prayers are never answered is playing golf. — Billy Graham

If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. — Jack Lemmon

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. — Mark Twain

Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. — Harry Vardon

Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at either of them. — Jimmy DeMaret

May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters. — Ben Hogan

If I hit it right, it’s a slice. If I hit it left, it’s a hook. If I hit it straight, it’s a miracle. — Anon

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie. — George Deukmejian

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe. — Lee Trevino

Reason they call it golf is because all the other four-letter words were taken. — Woody Woodbury

The #1 Golf rule you MUST follow: take the car keys out of your golf bag before you throw it into the creek. — St. Titleist