- We live in a small town. How small? Between 10pm and 6am, most of the traffic lights in town are turned "off". They blink yellow one way and red the other.
- It's cold here. The lowest we've seen thus far is -4, I think. The wind chill at that point was something like -11. It's snowing right now, and Julia and Shannon have just come inside from playing in it.
- The butter is a different shape here. It has a smaller cross section, and is longer. Why? I have no idea what the purpose is. But it does mean that our butter tupperware doesn't work now, unless you've used at least 2 tablespoons.
- Back to traffic, they've got blinking left turn lights here. Blinking yellow means yield.
- Back to weather, it's cloudy here. Every day. We've been told that there are as many cloudy days here each year as there are in Seattle.
- Lots of houses and apartments don't have overhead lights inside, particularly in the bedrooms. We now own a lot more lamps than when we used to.
Now, back to watching the BYU football game, where UTEP has -40 yards rushing so far. (Their QB apparently doesn't know how to take a 5 yard sack. He avoids those so he can run back and lose 12 yards. I like this guy.)
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Yes! All those things! The butter is shaped different. When I moved back to Colorado I had to get used to the other shape again. Our left turn lights blink yellow arrows, but that's new just in the last year. In Ohio everyone said it was always cloudy and you never saw the sun in the winter, but I didn't really notice it.
We have yellow left-turn blinkers now, too. Right in front of East High and in that general vicinity. I haven't seen them spread elsewhere, yet.
I also find it fascinating to be in the land of Hellmann's and Edy's instead of Best Foods and Dreyer's.
And apparently people here aren't thankful for the snow in their prayers at church. So when you are, it's a dead give away that you are from Utah.
In Nebraska I grew up with the butter like your butter now. Maybe the line is Nebraska/Colorado. Maybe there was a civil war over the shape of the butter but someone forgot to record it in the history books??
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