Tuesday, 8:30 AM. -14 degrees F, wind SW, calm to light with occasional gusts. The sky is clearing, and mostly brightly sunny. The humidity is down, at 79%, and the barometer is trending high, currently at 30.45". Buddy (with his jacket on) and I took our usual walk and it was quite pleasant without any appreciable wind, but I need a better thermometer, as the cheap instrument I have only registers down to -10 degrees F.
It's below zero with plenty of snow in the Northland; great conditions for dog sled races! The 374 mile annual Bear Grease Race starts Sunday in Duluth, and the Apostle Islands races will soon follow, on January 31st through February 2nd. The Bayfield races are very friendly for both viewing and volunteering and are a lot of fun. Click on the Bayfield Chamber site above for more information. Come if you can!
New Jersey Republican Governor Christy is getting really beat up over Bridgegate and other related supposed political bullying. I am not a great Christy fan, but frankly it sounds like typical big city politics to me, with the pot calling the kettle black and vice-versa. It is becoming increasingly nasty all the way around.
As New York City's Tammany Hall Boss Tweed famously said over a century ago, "Politics ain't bean bag." But neither should it be character assassination and perjury. As the dying Mercutio said in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, "A plague on both your houses!"
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