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Little M pulled these letters out of a bowl and put them all up on the little fridge all by herself, undeterred by the two missing letters or the lack of space.

Ha, I suppose the title ought to have been Alphabe!

HAIL! We’ve had hail a bunch of times this week and last week. I love it! And I love the sunny then pouring then sunny then hailing then sunny then windy days we’ve been getting. If only it were warmer, it would be like spring! I can’t wait for spring!

Then there was the snow last weekend up in the mountains. It was really fun to get up there and play out in the snow.

Our place butts up against National Forest land. Seems like the neighborhood is less likely to get logged? Maybe? Anyway, neat sign.

PROPERTY BOUNDARY National Forest Land behind this sign

After our walk, Big M and Little M built a snowman family. No pictures of the finished project, alas. They had carrot noses, and excellent stick arms. The snow mommy had a pretty nice rack (or as the, ahem, bra area is known in our family, milkies).

Meanwhile, inside the cabin, little C was trying on daddy’s mittens.

And walking around all cute like.

Next time: Escape from Snowy Mudhole!

Holy chestnut-backed chickadees, Batman, it’s March! And it’s about danged time I got back into the palindrome habit. So, a bonus entry to take care of that item of business.

This month’s palindrome will be in honor of my sister and especially in honor of our friend Jeff Allen, who taught her this palindrome when we were kids:

RACE CAR

Thanks, Emily! And thanks, Jeff! It’s good to be back in touch!

One day recently I ran across a couple of interesting bumpers. This first one is a bit blurry, I just barely managed to get the picture before it got away. But I could not resist trying to get a picture. In addition to the Darwin fish, they have one sticker that says I’M KILLING THE EARTH! and one that says RESPECT CERTAIN ELDERS and I just thought both of those were great. (As always, click to embiggen.)

Then there’s the sign in the background that says 15TH AVE BRIDGE PROJECT BRIDGE CLOSED. This sign is in our neighborhood. The closed bridge is in our neighborhood. The bridge was closed last May for some kind of super complicated safety upgrade. We wish the bridge would be closed forever! Even though it’s not very convenient to have to find an alternate route if we’re going north. See, the street we live on used to be a busy thoroughfare , and now it’s more like a cul de sac. We’ve been joking about hiring a saboteur so we can keep our peaceful street. But the sign, oh, the sign. Who did up this sign? It would have been so simple to make it make sense. 15TH AVE BRIDGE CLOSED. Simple as that.

Ah well, too late anyway. The bridge is supposed to open up again in April, which is [gasp!] next month. So sad for us. (Pssssst! Know any reliable saboteurs?)
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Next! This one was parked in my neighborhood the same day. I actually drove around the block to come back and take a picture of this one, because, wtf?

I even googled “jesus fish elephant” and did not get any significant results. Maybe my google fu needs work, or maybe my imagination needs censoring. Whatever. I’ve been drinking.