Trivia Night at The Spotty Dog – The Turkeys Don’t Win

In a warm up for Thanksgiving we went off to Trivia Night at The Spotty Dog. Between Karen’s teaching and other intrusions we have not made it to very many Trivia Nights this Fall. We gathered up Judy Garvey and sallied forth. Once at the The Spotty we found lots of people milling around as usual. We teamed up with Enid Advocate for our fourth.

We named our team The Turkeys. This proved prescient. Despite much heckling on our part, Karen’s dispatch of a glass of wine to the floor, and much more laughter than justified by our performance, we squeaked out a place somewhat above last. But, as the saying goes, much fun was had all around.
Trivia Night at The Spotty Dog

Trivia Night at The Spotty Dog - Enid doing the work

Trivia Night at The Spotty Dog - Enid doing the work while we goofed.

Road Trip 2011

In case you missed our trip in February, we travelled, in our 2002 Corolla, to Boston, Washington DC, Knoxville, Chattanooga, TN, Birmingham AL, Moundsville, AL, New Orleans LA, Galveston TX, Houston TX, Austin TX, Johnson City TX, Seminole Canyon Archeological Park TX, Carlsbad NM, Santa Fe NM, Amarillo TX, Canyon TX, Oklahoma City OK, Memphis, TN and Berkeley Heights NJ before returning to Hudson at the end of the month. We took our camping gear with us, but the much colder than usual wether only allowed for three nights in our tent.

We had plans to reach the California and visit various family and friends. This turned out to be unobtainable while still allowing for some sight seeing and side trips along the way.

We set up a separate website for this event: OldDodgVan.com. Lots of pictures, stories and a map there.

Post Christmas Snow

While we were resting up from the day’s excess at Ed and Meredith’s in Berkeley Heights, we kept and eye on the weather reports. Blizzard conditions were forecast for NJ and metro NYC on Sunday 12/26. So we decamped promptly and drove back to Hudson where identical snow falls and predicted wind levels were just treated as “severe winter weather”. Right on schedule yesterday afternoon, the winds picked up and the snow came.

We entertained ourselves as we usually do on Sunday evenings with a visit to our favorite watering hole, Swoon, where Dave knows to set up two Dewars on the rocks when we walk in the door. Much to our surprise, given the rages outside, the place was jumping.

When we walked home at about 8 pm there was already 5 or more inches on the ground or blowing around in the air.

Here is what things looked like this morning:

View out the back door

View out the back door

Fortunately for me, my timing was just right. Two neighbors came to my rescue with their snow blowers. So I had a relatively  easy time with the fluffy stuff.

Down Warren St. before snow clearing

Up Warren St.

Down Warren St. before snow clearing

Steve progressing up the street with his snow blower

Steve progressing up the street with his snow blower

Overhanging snow

Then, I noticed the overhang.