Winter - but for how long?

A second in a row winter! Starts early, stays cold, fair amount of snow. This year, you can't even escape by flying to Florida since they are having record low temps, too. We're supposed to get above freezing by the end of the week, so I'll likely go to the driving range that has heated tees. I'm tired of swinging my clubs in the living room, but my wife is thankful that our vaulted ceiling allows me to at least do that with no danger to her knick knacks.

A good number of ugly early morning commutes so far this year. I hope at least the snow removal guys are making some money after many years of spotty snowfall and too warm winter temperatures. Every cloud has a silver lining for somebody!

Speaking of silver linings, Livingston County is getting a battery recycling company, Recupyl Battery Solutions, which will start with 10-12 machinists in a 14,000 sq ft facility in Brighton Township. Every little bit helps with getting people back to work.

Hooray for the students at Maltby Intermediate School in Brighton. They collected 7600 lns of food in a two week period for the Gleaners Food Bank! What an outstanding effort. I know that the food pantry struggles with keeping enough food on the shelf at times, so this is a great accomplishment. We should all follow their lead and pick up something for Gleaners the next time we're shopping.

Support Gleaners Food Bank

Here's a group that really does a lot, especially in Livingston County. We don't take in enough donations to send food out, so food comes into the County from other Gleaners sites.

If you golf, Nov 22nd gives you an opportunity to play for the donation of a 15 lb or larger frozen turkey. You can golf at some of the area's nicest courses, Mystic Creek, Majestic, Timber Trace, Whispering Pines, or Hartland Glens - just bring a turkey (no, not your golfing buddy type of turkey). If you don't have time to shop, pay $25 and have at it on the links.

For more info see: http://www.gcfb.org/site/PageServer?pagename=pg_birdieday&AddInterest=1063