Minneapolis, MN
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| Snow! |
A Walk in Unexpected Snow
It's Thanksgiving and Donna and I (mostly Donna) made all of the turkey and fixings on Tuesday. We have been eating turkey for 2 days so we decided to do what any pinball fan would do, go to LITT Pinball Bar on Thanksgiving. Our walk there takes us through Loring Park. We arrived at LITT around noon and had a snack and a beer to support them for being open on Thanksgiving and then played pinball in a somewhat empty bar. I had made a list of my high scores and decided my goal today would be to beat as many of them as I could. Having pinball tables at home is starting to make me a better player.
I ended up overachieving. My Godzilla score blew my high score out of the water. I was also happy with my X-Men score and my Pirates score (it's a pretty low scoring game unless you know exactly what to do). My Elvira score was a top score but I still need to figure out ball control on that table. I will continue to track my high scores when it makes sense. It is a lot easier now that I am only playing 50 or so tables. When I was traveling the country we were playing on new tables every day and I ended up tracking every play which became a chore.
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| LITT was running 2 for 1 Tang Shots for Tangsgiving so we had intended on getting one each but we found out it has Red Bull in it and that isn't really our jam so we stuck with beer. |
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| It was fantastically empty. Don't worry, it is packed most every other day. LITT is becoming like Cheers for us. When we showed up a couple people we knew said hello to us. We can't go there without seeing people we know now. |
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| Tesla Strike Champion! |
Normally that would be the story, We Played Pinball on Thanksgiving, but the real story is the unexpected snow.
When we exited LITT the city was covered in a light dusting of snow. Since early November it has always been cold enough to snow but we just haven't gotten much moisture coming through. There was no snow predicted as far as we knew so it was quite a surprise. We walked home enjoying making fresh footprints and smiling to others out walking. We stopped and took photos along the way. Snow is still fun for us. I grew up in SoCal so I never saw it without a twisty mountain drive. When we moved to Seattle we saw snow a few times a season and it was a pain in the butt because we usually had to go to work. Now when it snows we can just enjoy it. The next day we found out the snow was actually created by a Glass Factory just across the border in Wisconsin. The conditions where just right for water in the air to adhere to particles coming from their chimney creating snow reaching about 100 miles.
This morning, as I write this, we are getting a bit of snow again. I will probably go for a walk, but I am happy I don't need to drive.
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| Yesterday ,on my walk, I noticed the ice on the lake at Loring Park is getting thicker. |
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| Here is a fire hydrant with some sort of leaker installed to prevent freezing. |
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| This is this mornings snow taken from the elevator lobby on our floor. |
That's it for today. If you missed, Record Listening at Our Local Library, check it out. We listened to our records at the library.
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