Cold Snap

After setting a record warm period for the last two months we are experiencing a cold snap.  The low temperature is projected to be 52 degrees overnight. Temperature plus a strong wind kept a lot of people from going to the beach today.  Barbara and I however grabbed our sweatshirts and forged ahead.  With the blowing sand and high hollowing winds it reminded us of walking in a snowstorm when we lived up north in our youth.  Just then, out of the mist came a surreal sight.  It looked like dogs pulling a sled.  Could this be?  This is Florida, right.  Well almost right, as the aberration got closer it was clearly a dog team pulling a young lady on a large skateboard.  The dogs saw Barbara and came over for a chat.  The nice young lady from Gatorland was training the happy young dogs.  Great fun!

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The Tough Pretzel

School mascots are important components of school pride and spirit.  They usually are based on large predator animals that easily help your school team intimidate and alienate opposing teams in athletic or academic competitions.  First let us talk about Terry's mascots.   In High School we were the Galion Tigers.  Our tough tiger mascot at events was a cute young lady running around in a tiger costume.  It worked!  Undergrad we were the Ashland College Eagles.  Tough big predator birds with large talons.  The person in the Jake the Eagle suit had to be coordinated and tough just to navigate with the big Eagle costume with the large claw shoes.  Graduate school was at Ohio State and we all know the power of tough nut Brutes Buckeye and the current National Championship football team.

Now lets get to Barbara.  She grew up in Freeport, Illinois which is certainly in the Midwest.  My first trip to her home town we drove by the Freeport High School on a tour of the city.  Their was a large pretzel statue in front of the school.  I asked why and she said they were the Freeport Pretzels.  I asked if their teams got licked a lot and she said No, we tied the other teams into knots.  Now that's tough.  When she got to Beloit college in Wisconsin it got even tougher.  Their official school mascot is a Buccaneer.  A Pirate who got way off course and ended up in the Midwest.  Maybe that is why their popular unofficial mascot is the Turtle.  A lost pirate with a snapping turtle, now that is tough.  School rivalries are so much fun!

    

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