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Signs of summer sizzle
Don’t mean to go all sports columnist on you this morning, but I thought about it all weekend and the tips of my fingers are itching.
Let me say, I love this time of year. Don’t get me wrong, I also may be one of the only people in Ohio who actually loves snow. Seriously, I love it. I had more fun during the February snow storms (mostly because of news stories that followed and my work on Local12) than I’ve had in awhile. Hell, if it’s going to be winter, let it be winter … rather than that gray 40-degree rain we seem to get for weeks every six months in southwest Ohio.
Now, seasonal transitions are one of the reasons why I chose to stay in this part of the state (I grew up on Cincy’s west side), and the winter-to-spring version is tantalizing.
It’s also around this time NCAA basketball becomes significant: Win or go back to studying. Conference championships leading in to the tourney of (for now) 64, and it doesn’t get much better.
But it does.
I took off from here at around 2 p.m., Friday, March 5, radio already tuned to The Big One, eagerly awaiting those wonderful, magical words that instill (some) hope: “If you’re ready now, the starting line-ups…”
Just thinking about it now gets me going.
When I got home, the first thing I saw was my faithful Weber on the deck, dirty cover and still surrounded by snow that had to be piled up after the second storm just so my dog could make it out the back door.
I couldn’t help it. It was silly, really. Snow still littered my yard, and the temps were only into the upper 40s (much warmer by the coals, though). I have to say, I do grill in the winter, but mostly use the other Weber potbelly for smoking ribs and shoulders.
But, full-on, steaks, brats and sides are pretty rare this time of year (at least at my house).
Either way, the next month will be spent splitting time between The Famer and The Cowboy and The Blue Devils … That’s right, I’m a Duke fan.
Anybody else?
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