Lopstick in the sticks.

While checking the weather online (coldest Thanksgiving in New England in over a century!), I decided to look up the origin of the name "Lopstick"...

Turns out "lopstick" is an alternate spelling of "lobstick." And "lobstick" is a tree with its middle or lower branches removed, used to signal people (mostly in Canada).

I've not seen a lobstick since I moved to Lopstick, but lobsticking in Lopstick may be a good idea, as we're in for an even colder and snowier winter in New Hampshire...