"You're a Mainiac"

proclaimed Kemmer after I told her Monday that I'd gotten both my Maine driver's license and my Maine license plates. Of course, people who actually live in Maine prefer the term Mainer. Something I learned after I'd used the term Mainiac a couple of times.

As I was registering my car at the DMV, the clerk picked up the next plate from the pile and said "121 QC. That'll be easy to remember." I remarked that the second customer after me would have an even easier one to remember and she paused for a moment before exclaiming "Oh, 123! You want that one?"


I put the plates on today because today I brought my car in for the State Inspection. I needed a bulb in a tail light and the hardly tinted by Arizona standards windshield was pretty dark by Maine standards and needed a special test to make certain it wasn't too dark. I now have a certificate to that effect and can show it every year when I get my car inspected and they won't have to do the special test again.

Between these two days, we had another interesting frost on our vehicles. This time the pattern on the roof of my car was more interesting than the one on the windshield.

As always, you can click on a picture to get a bigger version.

Nipping At Your Nose

Carrie suggested I take close up pictures of the frost on our windshields in the morning since I can no longer take close up pictures of cactus flowers.

Click on the photo for a larger view. Something you can do for any of the pictures we post here, but this one needs it more.

Time of the Season

Frosty mornings are something we didn't have to deal with back in the desert. Carrie bought an ice scraper while still in Arizona in anticipation of her need. I still have mine from a couple of decades ago when I was living in Massachusetts.

Another thing to get used to again is Daylight Savings Time. Arizona didn't do it and I very much agree with that. I think it's an outdated concept from the days of regimented factories when they needed sunlight to illuminate the work areas. We are moving more and more to a 24 hour global economy and would be served just as well with a standardized single world time zone. But I don't see that happening any time soon. So to speak...