Happy Birthday Charlie Chaplin

Thanks to Google and their desire to celebrate holidays and birthdays I found out today is Charlie Chaplin's birthday.  Well know for slapstick humor amongst the silent film world, I have an appreciation for this actor thanks to Max's 8mm film movie camera and projector he received when he was 12 or 13 for his birthday.  I have seen many clips and films of Charlie Chaplin, and never heard his voice until today.  Part of the search on him brought up this youtube, which in my mind speaks volumes.  The statements he makes here still stand true today and remind me that if we choose to ignore his words we are headed down a road to destruction.  For a man known for being silent, the power in his words are amazing.

Of all the places in the world.

I'm living in Utah, a pretty great state.  Yes this was our motto for a while some years ago.  Living in Salt Lake City in the spring can be interesting.  I have told people if I wanted some days in the spring I could go skiing in the morning and golfing in the afternoon.  I have not actually done this ever, but I know people who have.  The other thing I have heard is if you don't like the weather then wait ten minutes.  That has been today.  Yesterday I spent a good part of the day working on my car putting the transmission in.  I looked up yesterdays weather information, the high was 74 degrees F, or 23 degrees C.  This morning I woke up to snow on the ground, and today's high is somewhere around 35 F or 2 C.  It will snow, then clear up and be sunny, then snow again.  What makes this interesting is when you are up on the mountain benches you can see the valley and you will see these snow squalls going through the valley.  The great thing about this, no matter how many inches it snows on the driveway I won't shovel because it will all melt.  Our forecast for the next few days.
MON - Mostly Sunny with a high of 54 F or 12 C
TUE - Partly  Sunny with a high of 68 F or 20 C
WED - 30 percent chance of rain with a high of 57 F or 14 C
THU - Cloudy with a chance of snow and a high of 50 F or 10 C.

Yeah, if you don't like the weather today, just wait till tomorrow.


Here are pictures of the snow today.