Slight Detour: Bring Us Some ZAGS!

----Seen on Twitter this morning

From a Facebook Messenger note . . .

"Now work your magic on calming down Covid so that we can watch the Zags."

---Ernie Schoeffel

Ernie's my Facebook friend, but he's been a friend for a long time.

Ernie always supplied our vending machines which helped fund the Cedar Post newspaper at Sandpoint High School.

These days, as retirees, we enjoy sending messages back and forth to each other.

I didn't really know how to respond to his request for me to work some magic, except maybe to say, "AMEN."

We do need some ZAGS therapy. Bill and I were so desperate to watch ZAGS last night we watched the Creighton-Villanova game so we could at least see a player who LOOKS like Andrew Nemhard: his brother Ryan.

So, for Ernie, all other ZAGS fans and ourselves, we suggest that whoever's afflicted needs to get over that Covid AND SOON for the mental health of Inland Northwest inhabitants, et. al.

Moving on down the collection of photos, the one below also came from Twitter.

Its caption said something to the effect that whoever the photographer was that arranged this group and persuaded them to all sit still in their assigned spot is truly a genius.

There's got to be a gimmick. I can't believe this happened.

Could Photoshop have played a part?

The photo below was taken this morning when I walked out to get the paper.

The paper was there, albeit just a tiny portion of its blue plastic bag showing up in the snowbank.

The photo allowed me to convey the message that we're getting more snow without really saying so.

Let the photo talk.

We used to have a clear walkway to the deck.

Then, a bunch of snow slid from the garage roof.

In the next 48 hours we'll probably have an idea of just how serious and destructive this snow will be and just how much weight our roofs can hold.

After the snow, which is supposed to fall all day, forecasters say it will rain. That could be devastating.

I'm betting on the roofs with fingers crossed.

One headache we haven't encountered at all this year is having to go out and sweep off the satellite Internet dish several times a day.

We switched providers last spring, and, happily, the Intermax dish is much smaller and located under the eaves far enough that even snow sliding off the roof hasn't affected it.

The TV dish: that's a different story, but even this morning, with the snow, the TV is working.

We don't usually have it on in the morning, but Bill wanted to watch the activities and thoughts associated with this first anniversary of last year's debacle at the U.S. Capitol.

Fingers crossed that the day goes by peacefully and that eventually the elements which stirred up the mess will go back to their holes.

And, so, like Bill, I'm anxious to see what today brings.

And, then: more shoveling.

Happy Thursday.