Monday the Gift
What a great Monday. There is so much ice that is being cleared from doorways and ours is one of them.
As soon as a bit of thawed snow turns liquid and gets a chance to find its way under the thickest of ice, there is a chance that the battle can begin. An ice cream pail of salt from the softener brine tank helped as well. Salt is not kind to concrete and I know decades ago we made dang sure to have a brand of ice melt called Zero. Dennis had gotten a product from Fleet and farm that was to be kind to concrete and it had ground corn cobs in it. Man did that drag into the house under the feet. For this one time, the salt did the trick.
One of my favorite television shows in days of old was Columbo. An ace detective with a bit of humor. Last weekend I was surfing what was on Samsung television. British shows on PBS included one “Jack Frost.” Much like Columbo, including multiple pockets full of notes for crime solutions. Variety in the shows is good. Dennis’ favorite is Kriminal, with a “K”, that he catches on the Godahl tower offerings.
Last night we reminisced about the year when KEYC, channel 12, from Mankato was all that there was, complete with the Band Wagon. The old time bands had quite a few toes tapping in their living rooms as they watched.
We are doing a meal in a pan this evening. I have a bag of refrigerated hash browns from Christmas that needs to be used. My plan is to chop up four precooked Jimmy Dean Sausages as the potatoes are toward being finished. Stir them up, mix them up and sprinkle some shredded cheese on top as it goes to the table. Meal planning 101.
With this day being such a gift, I hope the remainder of the week is kind to us as well.