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That sound you hear is my teeth chattering, and all the typos in the forthcoming post are a result of my hands shaking. It’s c-c-cold!!! And it isn’t even winter yet! I am ready for spring … perhaps I’ll plant some flowers here …I presume you are all surviving this harrowing season? I have given up on trying to convince the girls that we ought to skip it this year, and am rather just going with the flow, trying to keep up with baking, shopping, decorating, wrapping and so forth while carving out a bit of time to breathe. It’s about the best I can hope for at the moment.

Grab a warm drink & a Christmas cookie (I baked them just for you guys!) and let’s go find something to start the week out with a smile, or possibly even a chuckle, shall we?

Gem’s cream

It has been cold here, with temps in the teens the past several days, but not nearly as cold as it is for our friend Hugh out in Minnesota! Last Wednesday in southern Minnesota, a tractor-trailer got stuck on an icy hill. Luckily for driver Craig Helgeson, Lizzie and Jacob Hershberger enlisted the help of their team of 13-year-old Belgian draft horses, Molly and Prince, to give the stuck truck a hand. I was actually amazed that only two horses were able to pull that much weight on an icy slope, but they did it. See for yourself!

Remember a few weeks ago when I told you about some ugly food-themed sweaters out for Christmas … I think one was Taco Bell and I don’t recall the other. Today I have found yet another, but frankly, I kind of like this one.After all, who doesn’t love the Dough Boy? General Mills said the sweaters are available in two designs that each feature the Pillsbury Doughboy enjoying the Christmas season. The first sweater (pictured above), titled “Let it Dough,” features the Doughboy and Pillsbury crescent rolls, while the other, dubbed “It’s Lit,” features the mascot with a decorated Christmas tree.

You can get on on Pillsbury’s website for a mere … well, scratch that, for both sweaters are temporarily unavailable, but you can sign up to be notified when they become available.

From the annals of really, really bad ideas comes this …
Yep, folks, it is exactly what it looks like … a bacon vending machine. Now, I know at least one person who I shall not name here who would likely think this is a great idea and that there should be one on every street corner.

The Ohio Pork Council, a trade group for Ohio pork producers, installed a vending machine at Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences that dispenses cooked, ready-to-eat Smithfield, Hormel and Sugardale bacon. For just $1, you can get either a slice of fully cooked bacon or a handful of fully cooked bacon bits. Now, I dug out the ol’ calculator and concluded that at that rate, it brings the cost of a pound of bacon, for which I typically pay $4, to somewhere around $16. That’s some markup just for the convenience of clogging your arteries with the push of a button!

There is a bright side … proceeds will be donated to Ohio State’s meat science program.

I always enjoy some of the strange, yet humorous signs that are out there … here are a few that are guaranteed to make you either shake your head and roll your eyes, or chuckle.