The Creation Museum is located just south of Cincinnati and I remember some talk about it being built before we left the area. A few years ago, people in Ligonier, Indiana tried to turn an old factory into another Creation Museum and because I was writing for a small paper at the time, I was asked to research it and write an article. In doing that, I checked back with the website for the museum in Cincinnati.

Now, there have been headlines about a debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham. In renewed curiosity about the Creation Museum, I went back to their website and while reading through one description, came upon this sentence:

Several parts of the museum, including the stunning forty-foot high portico with its cliff wall and floor-to-ceiling glass windows, flaunt open spaces and remarkable designs.

Flaunt?

Flaunt seems off-key to me, so I typed it in Google search and this is the first thing that came up:

Wouldn’t “highlight” or “spotlight” be a better choice than flaunt?

I know it’s a small thing, a really small thing, but what is it they say? Oh, The devil is in the details.

We are in the negative temperature digits and we have a wind chill somewhere in the negative 20’s. Most schools are on a two hour delay, although Fort Wayne Community Schools have closed. I think the kids may have gone two days this week, but maybe only once. So the question is this: Will the area schools stay with the delay or close?

The plows have been working constantly, but there are a lot of rural roads that buses must use and every intersection corner is piled high with snow towers.  They have missed so many days, everything is totally our of whack with schedules for graduation  and summer jobs for kids already. Finally, it is Friday and the physical plants at the school have not been revved up for heat for a couple of days.

So, will they call a closing? I’m thinking not. I think they are going to go, which means I am going to have to thread a needle getting the car out of the driveway and I am going to have to listen to Summer “make remarks” all the way to the high school. (Which some of you will realize I am happy to be experiencing.)

UPDATE: I hear stomping around  – we are still a GO. If the decision to close because of weather is not clear cut, the procedure is to go to a 2 hour delay at 6 am and by 8 am, make the call if they are going to close. It is 7:43 am and in the next quarter hour, they will start to fall like dominoes or NOT. And then it will get grumpy like you wouldn’t believe.

UPDATE: CLOSED, CLOSED, CLOSED.

I was not looking for anything on Amazon.com at all; I was just there because it was fate. Der Bingle is a pocket knife aficionado and has had a couple of experiences where he forgot and had to forfeit one at the airport.

If he had this one, he would simply not take the flight. No. Maybe if he could mail it to himself, he’d go, but that’s assuming he had time to do so. I am in awe of this knife – not so much that I am going to commit this amount of money to it. But if he does, I will totally understand.