Smoked Turkey Soup vs Blizzard!

January is National Soup Month and Sena made a smoked turkey soup in honor of the occasion. This is the counterbalance to the winter storm and blizzard warnings this month.

This morning we shoveled—and shoveled—and shoveled. It was the Sisyphean labor all over again, only this time with Winter Storm Gerri.

And then we went back out in the afternoon into the arctic dimension and shoveled some more. We could have just stayed out there until the blizzard warning took effect. As it was, we were out for an hour and a half, about to quit—and the city plow roared by and scraped a wall of snow boulders plug in our driveway. We had to stay out for an extra half hour. Thank you.

Anyway, during our morning break from shoveling, we got “near genius” level on a quiz about soups. Our answers were lucky guesses. How about a couple of turkey jokes?

Q: What’s the most musical part of a turkey? A: The drumstick.

Q: Why did the turkey refuse dessert? A: He was stuffed.

Soup wins! We were not so stuffed we couldn’t have cherry cobbler for dessert.

Soup’s on!

Iowa Winter Storms One Two Punch January 2024!

I just got the update on what I think is Winter Storm Gerri. The National Weather Service has now upgraded this catastrophe in our area to a Blizzard Warning.

Iowa is getting a one, two punch from winter storms Finn and Gerri.  We hardly got a break from Finn’s left hook before Gerri’s right cross connected.

This morning we scraped off less than an inch of new snow that fell last night. We might get from 8-12 inches of new snow. Wind gusts could be up to 50 mph with dangerous wind chills over the next several days. The party gets started late tonight.

If you want to drive anywhere, I suggest a Big Wheel race around your living room.