It's not warm when she's away

Let me get back to flogging my humor blog and then, oh, who knows what I'll do. Run since the last advertising of this has been:

Here's some miscellaneous pictures, one pinball-adjacent and the rest weather-based.

Trophy mug for February's Lansing Lightning Flippers tournament, the women's tournament that bunny_hugger again squeaked out a win on.

Ice-covered branches from a freezing-rain storm that we worried might cause us to lose power. We were just fine after all.

Sparrow perched atop an ice-covered branch, way in front of our newly refrozen pond in back.

And here's birds gathered on our frozen feeder, trying to get something to make it through the night.

Here's what the layer of ice looked like on my car. I regretted not knowing exactly where my good scraper, the one with the metal blades, was, and found it before the next storm.

Trivia: In July 1913 Reuters opened the Reuter's Bank Limited, with a nominal capital of £ 1 million, half of which was issued in fully-paid £10 shares: 49,795 by the Reuter's Telegram Company, 50 each to the four main board directors of Reuter (the news service and the bank), and one each to five senior Reuters staff. Source: The Power of News: The History of Reuters, Donald Read.

Currently Reading: Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature, Stuart Kells.