Five on Friday

• I am disappointed to learn that the Inuit do not have hundreds of words for snow.  Linguists no longer believe that, and I found that a charming idea.  Snow is varied in the way that it presents and the way it ages, and we could use a great many more nouns to cover it.  For instancce we received several inches yesterday out of precipitation that was no prettier than a misting rain.  It's light an fluffy on the ground, but wasn't that way while it arrived.
• When I went to check out at my Amazon account, I had an extra item in my cart which raised my total by $500.  (It was a flat screen TV set.)  Good Guy was only doing a price comparison, he said.  Man, I've got to watch him like a hawk!
• Last year at this time we were driving the day after the worst snowstorm of the winter in order to catch a flight from O'Hare to Cancun.  Thankfully, the sensible folk were all at home out of the weather.
• It's time to clear off some surfaces of their usual mess, uh, decor-----and make a stab at Christmas decorations.  We don't really have that much room but if all the surfaces were cleared, maybe that would be pleasant enough!
• We also need to burn candles very judiciously in containers to avoid accidents with our cats. Enough said about that.
• Well, OK, six things instead of five.  The T-shirt saying that makes me laugh the hardest is this one:  Here I Am,  what are your other two wishes?         No self esteem problems there!  (Have a great weekend.  I'm celebrating my Older Than Dirt birthday.)