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The Mussetter Road project is complete. The new roadway is less sloped, I believe.

Groomed Dirt

This is the state of the construction on Mussetter Road. Groomed dirt. I think we might be looking at another week or two before it's open. The weather hasn't cooperated lately. It looks good most of next week, though.

Our Urban Dare

On April 18, The Rock Lobsters (myself and hubby) embarked on a grand adventure in DC called the Urban Dare. We had a great 3.5 hour fun-filled tour of miscellaneous statues.

Our Dare started at McFadden's near Washington Circle (Foggy Bottom Metro). Our race started fashionably late at about 12:15 p.m. or so with a list of 11 clues that sent us to various locations across the city. Thus began our worst mistake... we wasted a good 30 minutes at least using our laptop to google all the clues (which led to statues or circles) without moving. A better option would have been to just ride the Circulator over to Union Station, the first stop we figured out from the clues.

So after walking to Gandhi's statue near Dupont Circle and then over to Logan Circle to do a 3-legged race challenge, we were way behind the 8-ball. Once we got moving on the Circulator, our pace improved as we had mapped out every location and how to get there quickly.

We found our way to Gallatin's statue at the Treasury building and lucked into a bonus picture of Lafayette. We also got a bus to save us some walking over to the Art Museum where we photographed a bust of Longfellow... oh WAIT, the one they meant for us to find was way back at Dupont Circle!!!

The highlight of our day was smashing through the spelling challenge. It was a basic cipher where letters had numerical values. Nerd power!

So, we will use our lessons learned tomorrow when we compete on the Great Urban Race, a similar Amazing Race style adventure with cryptic clues and physical challenges.

The Mussetter Mess

Do you commute to Montgomery County or the Beltway from New Market by using Old National Pike (MD 144) and Mussetter Road which joins with Ijamsville Road? Well, you won't be able to do that beginning on or around April 6.

According to Frederick County Government, Mussetter Road will be closed 30 days for construction, pending weather conditions of course. Good luck to the local traffic between Hyatt Rd and Royal St. Andrews, which is the segment to be worked on according to the signs that are posted on the route.

Snow no Snow

I cannot believe that Frederick County cancelled school the other day, and yet there was hardly any snow whatsoever. There was way more snow in Montgomery County and they had school. A delay I could see (Carroll County, good job). A complete Snow Day? What is this... Alabama???

Frederick YMCA

There was a "fire drill" at the Y today. Not sure what was going on, but in the middle of racquetball, there was announcement to leave the building. On the way out, I saw a couple firemen. No alarms were going off at the time, but they did start later. I don't know if it was a drill or something else that needed to be looked at. There were two fire engines I saw. One was out front and the other on the side street near the alley.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Here's wishing everyone a happy new year 2009.

Where's the snow???

Well, I was really hoping for snow on Sunday, but it's looking like not much snow is going to fall. Blah.

Winter Weather Advisory

The first Winter Weather Advisory was issued this morning using the new "Commuter Impact" rule discussed here.

INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FREDERICK...WESTMINSTER
649 AM EST FRI NOV 21 2008

..WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EST TODAY

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON
EST TODAY.

AIDED BY COLD NORTHWEST WINDS BLOWING ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES...
SNOW SHOWERS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS OVER PORTIONS OF
NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND THIS MORNING. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 2
INCHES IS EXPECTED ALONG THE MASON DIXON LINE FROM FREDERICK COUNTY
EAST TO NORTHERN BALTIMORE COUNTY...WITH CLOSER TO 1 INCH FURTHER SOUTH.

A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE
TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED
VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING.

Snowy Pattern

It looks like there will be more opportunities to see the white stuff over the next couple of weeks, including Thanksgiving week. Tuesday? Friday? Stay tuned. High temp today was only 35 degrees, which is very winter-like. I'd like some snow, but I have a lot of garden work to get done!