Closer to Holabird, Nick Nemec was watching the blizzard coverage on Keloland praying that they'd get over in time for "The Price Is Right". God (and Shawn Cable) answered his prayer in the affirmative.

E.E. Hinkle's sliding glass door is frozen shut, making his family wonder what he will do for exercise since he won't be able to open and shut it 30 times in the night. Harold Hinkle disguised his voice as Santa Claus and talked to his granddaughter, Shelby Hinkle, to see if she's been naughty or nice. Justin Hinkle was too scared to go to the phone, however.

Jerry Hinkle risked life and limb in the elements to keep the cattle fed and watered. He also make some pudding for his grandfather. Mary Hinkle only left the house as far as her father-in-law's place, to make sure he was fed and watered. Vegetable soup and hot chocolate were the order of the day. Nothing quite like it to takethe chill out of your bones.

Ron LaFourtune went to feed his cattle and they were nowhere to be found. He later discovered that they were just relaxing in a snow drift. As the kids would say, "They were chillin'!". Ron has his calves consigned for auction, but he is rethinking this possibility in case the buyers don't show up at the sale barn.

The Holabird Advocate Circulation Department reports that pheasant hunting web sites from Iowa have been checking out our little Newsblog. All of us here at the Holabird Advocate were shocked to find out that one could shoot a pheasant in Iowa. Don't those Hawkeyes have their own state bird to shoot at? Let's hope that those Iowans are still able to cross the border in October, and they bring their money with them.

It has come to my attention that some people (and ya'll know who ya are) have been giving my dad a hard time about his afternoon nap. They call him lazy. Now let me just say this, my dad is not lazy, far from it. He works darn hard for that afternoon nap. He doesn't always get it either. Those are the days when some would like to put him to sleep, but that's neither here nor there.

No less a man than Red Green recommends an afternoon nap for middle aged men. "If you have a prayer of staying up past 8:30," Red quips, "You're going to have to take a nap." According to Red, men need that nap to catch up on all the sleep they needed but didn't get when they were younger. And besides, If my dad, at 71, is middle aged, so much the better. I pity the nursing home that deals with him at age 142, but other than that...

I should mention that even I, on the odd occasion, avail myself of a nap. The difference for me, of course, is that I really am lazy.