My Sweet Nectar...

Shannon recently surprised me with a special treat, Beer! My favorite beer is called Spotted Cow. It is brewed by the New Glarus Brewing Company in New Glarus, Wisconsin. This beer is huge in Madison and some areas of Wisconsin, but is pretty much unavailable in the Twin Cities. Shannon happen to have a friend traveling through Madison recently that agreed to pick up a 6-pack for me! I still haven't cracked one open yet...I'm waiting for a special occasion to savor every drop!

I figured since I shared a little about my favorite beer, I would do the same about my regular, every day beverage, Diet Mountain Dew! Ever since I can remember in high school I have enjoyed Mountain Dew, I was never a big fan of dark colas. When I played football in high school, our team made a pledge not to drink pop during the season, so each year I would quit Mountain Dew. Since I was working out more during football season and actually starting to watch calories, fat, and sugar in foods, when football season was over, I read the nutrition facts on the back of a can of Mountain Dew and was shocked. 170 calories! Now, considering at my peak, I would drink 6 - 8 cans of pop a day (which has been currently reduced by half) that was a lot of calories. So, I switched to Diet Mountain Dew and haven't looked back since. I can't drink any kind of regular pop anymore....it just doesn't taste right.

The Great Melt Down!

The only problem with a March snowfall, is that the snow doesn't stick around for very long once it falls. We had had temperatures above freezing for about a week now and the last three days they have been above 50, even hitting 65 on Monday!

Since I last wrote, we did make the trip up to Randy's house to drop off the other snowmobile. He was very happy with it and even had a chance to take it on a small test ride. I don't know if we will be getting any more snow this year or not, but I hope he gets another chance to ride it before spring. It's kinda like getting a bicycle for Christmas and having to wait 5 months to use it!

I also managed to work on getting another one of my projects from last year finished. I finally got the drywall up around the window I replaced in the basement. I can't say I was really looking for a drywalling project right now (since I hate drywalling) but my brother is finishing the basement in his house and needed his drywall square back! Now all I need to do is tape and mud it, then I can do the finish trim. Hopefully I will have this done before it gets nicer outside.

Another thing I managed to come up with is another possible license plate for the Trans Am. If you remember my post from last fall, I pretty much had it narrowed down to one choice (thanks to all that voted!), the black and white embossed license plate with the "80" in the lower right hand corner. I did manage to find another type of embossed license plate. This was the regular type license plate that was assigned to regular passenger cars from 1978-1985. The is the look I was going for! I found a guy online who lives right up the road in St. Louis Park, MN that deals in old license plates. He had a set of this style of plate in used, but very good condition, with brand new, "80" stickers! What a great find! You should have seen all the license plates this guy has! If you are ever looking for a license plate or tabs from any state, get a hold of me and I will pass his information on to you.

Now I just have to wait until September, when my one year taxation period is over with, bring these plate to the DMV and hopefully get approval!

Welcome to March!

Last Thursday we ended up getting a pretty decent snowfall:

As you can see, it managed to whiten things up a little bit. Bloomington had the most snow accumulation in the metro for the storm at 7 inches. It put me in a better mood having new fresh snow and it gave me the opportunity to get out the snowblower and shovel! I even had a little helper!

I'm thinking the snow won't be sticking around for too long however, since as I type it is 35 degrees out and they are predicting 45 degree for tomorrow. They are also predicting a couple more "precipitation events" over the next week or so, but who know if it will be rain, snow, ice, or a mix of all three. I guess with this last snowfall, I am finally OK if winter is over. Overall, it was a great winter, with a decent amount of snow, I just wish it would have spread the snow out over the entire season.

I also got what was probably my last snowmobile ride in for the season. I went out to a co-worker's cabin in Balsam Lake, WI and we hit the trails out there for a day. We ended up putting 120 miles on, and the trails were in OK shape considering the warm ups. The new track worked very well and it was fun snowmobiling in a new area.

This coming Friday, we are heading up to my friend Randy's house to have dinner and deliver his new snowmobile. I hope he has some snow left (or we get some more) so he had a change to try it out! Hopefully, if Randy gets into it, he will be able to come up north with us.