Came across this trivia: the etymology for Orchid is from Orchis, which in Greek means testicle, so named because of the shape of the plant's roots. Roots? Dude these are orchids? Plants with the most exotic flowers? You couldn't see them? Oh well, it was Carl Linnaeus who named them so, and we all (at least all of us who have read Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson) know that he almost entirely named things with explicit genital names. Ok, now that I have made a sexual reference to catch your attention, let me move on to the main message. Mercury rose steadily through the week - from low 8 - 10 degrees last weekend, it burgeoned to up to 17 degrees and even touched mid 20s a couple of times. Viva el sol! Weather Channel was sensationalizing a storm system caused by Jet Stream that was going to sweep across the south west and come up to Chicago with tornadoes and hail the size of golf balls, but it all came to bupkis. Now that they have got the