This Week, Or, How To Survive Some Serious COLD!-- Part 1

Well, this new year has certainly started off cold here in the Midwest. But, it is even cold in the South and the poor Northeast really got pounded with that storm.

JANUARY 1, MONDAY--  We celebrated an early New Year's Eve at the Fox Lake, Illinois, American Legion yesterday with toasts at 4 p.m., our kind of celebraton anymore.

Today we met Kevin and Kelly at J's in Ingleside for half price pizza, $1.50 pints and NTN.  We did quite well at NTN/Buzztime with five Top Twenties.  Watched that great Georgia-Oklahoma game there and at home in Margaritaville.

JANUARY 2, TUESDAY--  Stayed home because of the cold and we're both recovering from the flu thing going around.  Met Kora at Sunnyside for a few.

JANUARY 3, WEDNESDAY--

Went to Donovan's Reef in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin,  and met Kevin and Kelly for drinks and 50 cent jumbo wings.

On the way home, we stopped at a new place that opened yesterday in Spring Grove, Illinois, (where we live) called Bricks & Ivy (a take on Wrigley Field).  The building has been about four different places over the last years, MVPs, Dill Pickle, 21st Amendment and Spring Grove Tavern.  Let's hope this one takes.

We saw that Tommy's, right down US-12, had reopened and stopped for a couple more.  They just opened today.  So, we were first-nighters.

Here's Hoping the Two New Bar/Restaurants Make It.  --RoadDog

ACCIDENT REPORTS:  "I had been shopping for plants all day and was on my way home.  As I reached the intersection, a hedge sprung up, obscuring my vision."