WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23RD 2013

OMG IT'S A record setting BONE CHILLING MORNIN in Orr Lake...PLUMMETING TO a - 32.. and more new snow on the ground from yesterday afternoon and overnight. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME since we hit -32...in 1985 we had a Lolopoluzza with about 24 inches in 24 hours...especially in Waverly and here at Orr Lake...we were starting to dig out...or as the Hurons did many years before...THEY DUG OUT the DUG-OUT. I have used the snow-blower more than the car this week and I am thinking what a great idea the heated handles would have been...It's been so cold even the chicken fingers at the KFC have Gloves on. A couple of big movie stars were born on this date way back...Humphrey Bogart was born in 1899. My favourite movie quote of all time was said to Humphrey by his wife-to-be at the time...Lauren Bacal....when she said " You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow. That was from "To Have and To Have Not" in 1944. Also born on this date in 1898 was Randolph Scott...my favourite movie cowboy. I spent a lot of Happy hours trying to hear Randolph over the cinema din of a Saturday movie..dodging flying popcorn and making sure I didn't sit on any gum or get flashlighted out of the theatre. Randolph was THE MAN....He was great friends with Cary Grant. Scott is the subject of the 1974 Statler Brothers song "Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott?", lamenting the passing of Oaters. He is mentioned in the film Blazing Saddles when Sheriff Bart tries to convince the reluctant citizens of Rock Ridge to support his plan to save the town. He says that they "would do it for Randolph Scott" and they rise, putting their hands to their hearts and saying reverently "Randolph Scott", echoed by an off-screen chorus and agree to help the Sheriff. I was thinking about the lack of luck for the Maple Leafs having not won the Stanley Cup since 1967...which incidently reminds me the Leafs TRADED Tim Horton. Maybe that's the CURSE..no Timmy..maybe it's all about the "Tim Bits" and the chocolate one...and for the Leafs...The Dark one has been a BLACK HOLE"