Even more ways of having snow days in MHC-Patrick | Columnists

TUESDAY’S WORD was Sardoodledom. It means mechanically contrived plot construction and stereotyped or unrealistic characterization in drama. Instance: “The authors of the world’s nice performs will not be mere tricksters in Sardoodledom.”—John Mason Brown (Supply: Merriam-Webster, which listed the phrase as its most looked-up phrase of Monday.)

If on Tuesday you missed the climate report that is often on Web page A2 of the Bulletin — nicely, the explanation it was lacking is ironic: the climate! As a result of roads have been anticipated to ice over on Monday evening, deadlines for the Bulletin have been sooner than regular that day. That allowed for the newspaper to be printed and distributed by the carriers earlier than the roads have been too harmful for journey. Nonetheless, the graphics staff that places collectively the climate chart had not completed with it by the early deadline, so the newspaper needed to roll with out it.

To make up for that shortcoming, the Bulletin posted an article on its web site giving the week’s climate forecast. We all know that’s no assist in any respect for the oldsters who solely learn the newspaper in print, and never on-line, and we’re sorry about that. It was simply one of the best we might do given the situations. Security first.

In Tuesday’s Stroller we talked in regards to the methods individuals put together for snow, and the dialog continues (and the snow, perhaps, too — with a 70% probability of it on Thursday).

• Melody Cartwright of Martinsville costs the cellphone, fills up the chicken feeders, shares up on non-perishable meals and wine, then hunkers all the way down to cuddle with the kitties.
• Robin Summerlin will get the blankets out, hearth on and meals cooking within the Crock Pot.
• It is “chips, sweets and Lifetime motion pictures” for Lisa Smith Parham.
• Laura and Rick Steere of Infinity Acres hold loads of gasoline within the turbines to maintain the animals heat.
• Stephanie Mills stated, “I simply chill. Rely heads and thank God everyone seems to be secure.”
• Missy Lannom stated when her son was small she used to have a babysitter on standby and was fortunate sufficient to have each grandmothers within the space for snow days — however “what do dad and mom do when no family members” are round?

TUESDAY’S TRIVIA ANSWER: The Ranunculaceae (buttercup) household of flowering crops has about 2,250 species in 62 genera. The showy flowers often have 5 or extra petals with quite a few pistils and stamens. They embody anemone, bugbane, buttercup, clematis, columbine, goldenseal, hellebore, larkspur, love-in-a-mist, meadow rue and monkshood.

TODAY’S TRIVIA QUESTION:  We should always have requested this earlier, however higher late than by no means. Within the conventional New 12 months’s meal of cornbread, greens, hog jowls and black-eyed peas, which do every of these meals characterize?