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Minus 18 degrees.  Yuk!   It reminds me of my childhood.  Strange how we have those very early memories.  One of my earliest is from when I was four years old.   We lived in a rented farm house between Clear Lake and St. Cloud near Highway 10.  I have this memory of being carried into the kitchen from the car on a very cold evening.  I remember opening the refrigerator and seeing a carrot stick in a glass of frozen water.  It seems to me that the refrigerator was very nearly empty.  For some reason a visit to a chinchilla farm was somehow connected to this memory.

Another memory of that farm is when I stepped on rotten boards over an open well and I started to fall but my sister Kathie grabbed my arm and held on until help could come.  It was either my mother or the farm hand that pulled me up.  I do believe that the house is still standing.  Hopefully the well is gone.

Tomorrow night I will be on Otter Tail Lake at the second annual OTC-On Ice. It opens tonight.  The entertainment is inside a tent with heaters.  I will give you a full report next week.  Details at  OTConice.com  

Live from Here this week is another rebroadcast.  Enjoy the show and stay warm.

“If I shoot at the sun I may hit a star.”  P.T. Barnum   American Showman