It's going to be 90 F today in the desert and hard to imagine all the woe many parts of the US and Canada are going through. I do hope winter eases up.
We saw this on the news yesterday and it gave us quite a laugh:
“The Oconee County Sheriff's Office announces that Valentine’s Day has been CANCELLED from a line North of I-16 to the Georgia/Tennessee border,” the post read. “Men who live in the designated 'NO VALENTINES DAY ZONE' are exempt from having to run out and buy lottery scratchers and Hershey bars from the corner stores until February 18, 2014, due to ice, snow, freezing rain."
http://www.today.com/news/midst-storm-georgia-sheriffs-office-cancels-valentines-day-2D12107750
I wouldn't mind if Valentine's Day was permanently cancelled. If you're fortunate enough to have a "Valentine" then I hope you don't need a day to appreciate that. And if you don't, then the day of "love' becomes the cruelest day of the year.
How about a new tradition for Valentine's Day? How about giving flowers to someone who won't be receiving flowers that day instead of your sweetie? There was a great story on the news yesterday about a fellow in the Coachella Valley who has a non-profit delivering loads of bouquets of flowers donated by businesses to hospitals and retirement homes to people who don't usually get flowers. What a super idea!
Update: Just as I posted this I saw a story about him in the Desert Sun. A wonderful story…do read!
http://www.mydesert.com/article/20140213/LIFESTYLES/302130010/
