This column is an all running of the words column.
April is a very busy month. For example: April 1, April Fools Day. April 2, Good Friday, April 3, son Dan’s birthday. April 4, Easter Sunday. April 22, Earth Day. April 26, Full Moon. April 30, Arbor Day. April 31, deadline to claim ice out prize from the Albert Lea Tribune.
Something to think about: The virus pandemic started during and it’s still here in Lent. The problem is two Lents a year apart.
Two 70 plus senior men were talking as one said, “It’s a beautiful spring day,” to which the other replied, “’til it snows.” (They both were right as later it snowed 8 inches.)
In a week’s time, I went from sunning in a lawn chair outside to ice fishing to shoveling snow. This all occurred during the Minnesota State Boys’ Basketball Tournament! As a Minnesotan, you know there is a weather problem every year during the boys’ tourney.
In a local survey of people late for church, the Sunday of the time change, only three families qualified.
The Fountain Lake ice fishermen were truly sportsmen as very little garbage was left on the ice this year.
March was not the traditional March that came in the opposite of how it went out.
Where is the smallest roundabout in the world? In the city of Owatonna, that’s where.
Have you seen the new style coat-jacket the youth are wearing? The zipper is in the back!
The classic example of a college professor: He used the light from his cell phone to try and find his lost cell phone in his car.
You must give credit to the Minnesota DNR for solving the cormorants eating so many walleyes in Leech Lake. When the ice goes out this spring, they will be releasing skunks on any island inhabited by only cormorants. The skinks will eat the cormorant egg thus, not as many cormorants to eat the walleyes. The skunks will be replenished each ice out if necessary.
Holly and Jim were the recipients of the smartest Steele County Farm Family this year. They went to Florida just before the last spring blizzard and came home after the blizzard. Rumor has it that the free nitrogen in the snowstorm more than paid for their expenses to Florida.
This has been an unusual spring for the birds. Most of the feathered snowbirds were here before the last spring blizzard, while the human snowbirds came after the last spring blizzard.
Congrats to Mary Jo Jensen for being the recipient of the 2012 Freeborn County Advocacy Award. She founded “The Attic,” a community donation program to assist families in need. (Husband Denny has been known to help pick up and deliver heavy items.)
If you like takeout dinners, the American Legion in Albert Lea can fill your tummy. The takeout meals are Tuesday and Friday evening. Call 373-7993 by 4 p.m. to order. Genie and I like the shrimp or fish the best. (You don’t have to be a legion member to order. I am a legion member.)
As of April 1st, blizzards are a thing of the past this year in Southern Minnesota.
Mr. Blue Truck with Blade, whoever you are – thanks for anonymously doing our 8-inch wet snow-covered driveway after the mid-March blizzard.
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Bob is a retired AAL (Aid Association for Lutherans) agent, currently working on his master’s degree in Volunteering. His wife, Genie, is a retired RN, currently working on her doctor’s degree in Volunteering. They have two children, Deb in North Carolina, and Dan in New York. Bob says if you enjoy his column, let him know. If you don’t enjoy it, keep on reading, it can get worse. Words of wisdom: There is always room for God.