Not much else to report! I’ve heard people say that all the trends hit the coasts first and then trickle down to the Midwest. I’ve just experienced a trend that I hope stays on this East coast. Apparently, in keeping with moving daylight savings time earlier, New York has moved April Fools’ Day up a couple of weeks, too. That is the only logical explanation for the icy, snowy, rainy, cold, windy, sleety day we had Friday, the frigid blast on Saturday, and the contest today of wind versus sun—wind won—no contest really!

Continuing with this logic, if Friday was April 1 in the new and improved   calendar, then my birthday, April 9th, is really the former March 24th! So, it’s my duty to inform you that this coming Saturday will be National Let’s Eat White Cake with White Icing Day. It’s been a long tradition that I eat white cake with white icing (preferably baked by Hen House bakeries) on my birthday. Thanks to the new abbreviated March as mandated by New York, we get to eat white cake in 6 more days. Are you with me on this? For those of you a little slow on math, let’s review: If the 16th day of the 3rd month of this year, oh let’s call it, say, 2007, has been changed to the first day of the fourth month, same year (makes the math easier, don’t you think?), then today, what used to be the 18th day of the 3rd month, is really the 3rd day of the fourth month of 2007 (remember, we agreed to keep the year the same), then the 9th day of the fourth month will be the former 24th day of the third month of the year 2007. The importance of this date change should be immediately noted by all Hen House bakeries as the annual April 9th raid of white cakes with white icing will take place earlier than originally planned. Okay, students, did we all get the correct answer??? Are we ready to eat cake in 6 days and counting? (For those of you who dot your I’s and cross your T’s, please note that today is really 3/18/07 even though the date on the blog is 3/19/07–the time is set to Greenwich Mean Time on my blog even though it’s EDT here, and CDT at home—what’s a woman to do???)

 Amazing what happens to one’s brain when frozen in New York…and YES THE RAMS WON! GO RAMS!