ok Happy February everyone. Go.

Happy February to you too.

Thanks, Dr. Who. Groundhog Day tomorrow, so get the snowshovel ready

Not here. At least not in the next few days.

You're in Florida?

No, Minnesota. It is starting to warm up, so maybe there will be snow soon.

So the groundhog won't see his shadow.

Ours won't, if the're smart they will stay in the burrow.

Wow, got it. Done. Am I the first on the first (of February)?

Groundhogs are smarter than some animals, I think.

smarter than some politicians, anyway.

You have lowered the bar sufficiently.

In fact, you may have insulted all ground hogs.

Jeepers. I wonder if the SPCG will be after me now...

You mean the SPCGH?

Done

Oh, they changed their name, did they? I've not been an avid groundhog proponent lately

Well, maybe I can't spell :)

You're doing ok... Well, I'll get some more shuteye now. Don't stay up too late.

Thanks and good night.

gogogo

Difficulty score 24.

done. no greens

start

done

done, easy easy

go

go

done, pretty easy

Let us bathe in the Blood of the Lamb.

Sticky.

go

start

hmmm...i feel a bit stuck (and a bit embarassed for feeling a bit stuck)

i think that means it must be too early for sudoku

don't feel bad, It's not quite straightforward

or yeah... lol maybe too early

Well, I'm celebrating by getting caught up because we have a snow day!

:D

we do too artlady!

nice artlady! that storm passed south of us... but wednesday we had a cold day. lol

i'm also kind of blaming my not-awakedness on the person who was loudly using a snow-blower outside our bedroom window at 6 a.m.

Oh it was cold here too. I can never go back to sleep once I'm up...unfortunately the only puzzles this week I missed were easy's!

done. no green. no snow day.

LOL brittlefish

well done, brittlefish

:) well, off to work.

thanks pappa

ciao!

a domani!

freaken finally done

bye everyone... enjoy the snow!

nicely done pappa

Fortunately...from inside the house!

artlady, may i ask where in chicagoland you are at?

my husband is from the wheaton area...

NW suburbs

ahhh...cool...

Ah, that's south and west of me...my husband's aunt and uncle live there.

Quite cool today...;-)

Although they predict rain for Monday

i'm sure!

we were there ... two weekends ago i think, when it was like 6 degrees

st. louis has really made me into a softy!

Lol! I had a friend from New Mexico in that weekend! What a welcome for her!

You get some nasty stuff down there...icy.

oh no! :D

you know, we just moved here in august from michigan, and so far we've only seen snow twice, both times it's basically shut down the city, and we haven't gotten too much of the ice that we were warned about...

maybe this is a fluke year

I'm originally from the northern part of Wisconsin, so this is not a huge change.

it's been really warm too

Funny...I thought St. Louis got more snow than that. I forget how far south it is, since it's only about 5 hours or so from here

Great art museum there!

(Everywhere I go, I visit the art...)

i was really expecting more too

although...i miss the snow, but not the cold!

I hear you about the cold!

we still need to explore...we got here about 2 weeks before classes started and it was alot of chaos, so i think that'll be our summer project - i've heard that the art museum is definitely worth checking out

My daughter and I went skiing after Christmas up near Lake Superior...FEET of snow! I'd forgotten what it was like.

Are you or hubby teachers?

oh wow...i saw pictures of lake superior areas on the news the other day...looked crazy!

no - we're actually both full time masters students - i wouldn't mind possibly being a teacher sometime, though...

Ah, I teach a night class at a small university here in Chicago...some master's students working on teaching certification. Always struggling to find time to study and work. Challenging!

with your snow day...are you a teacher?

yes--I teach...art. Seriously!

that's great! how fun to teach something you're passionate about!

Oh yes, IO

Ooops, sorry...Oh yes (I meant to say), it's been 30+ great years so far!

nice!

All caught up. Bye!

enjoy your day artlady!

done

oh noes! I fell from the heights! I missed yesterday's puzzle!

On the plus side, I have archives to do! Yay!

Ok, I'm going to use Jawilke's method for these two puzzles I have to do.

go

done on 1

and done on 2

have a great day all!

go

pause for station identification

and now back to our regularly scheduled program

done, no greens

Go.

Done, no greens.

go

pause.

ha

nailed that puppy

Rank me, baby

no green, red or checkpoints

cue theme muzak.

(snap) OUCH!!

{Broke my arm patting myself on the back}

resume, well done Limer.

done whilst trying to eat tea and fend off various request, and no greens.

commence

terminate... no greens.. slowed down mid fill though

no green

go

done

start

done