Once More, With Feeling!
This entry was posted on 1/6/2012 10:58 AM and is filed under blather.
After my sojourn through Middle Earth and by that I mean my laying in a recliner for thirteen hours watching others sojourn through Middle Earth, I felt the need for some fresh air.
Especially since I went up to the Picket Fence to pick up my check and discovered that it was a balmy 25 degrees outside!
I love El Nino winters! I wish global warming was happening.
When I got home from the bank, I called my folks and they came into town and we walked around the lake. It was great; sunny, no wind and warm enough to break a sweat in my winter coat. There were a lot of fellow Minneapolitans out there, enjoying the warm weather.
That's why Minnesota weather is so great; we actually consider a January day in the high twenties to be great weather.
Except for the ice fishermen. They're all grumpy because the high afternoon temperatures are keeping the ice on the lakes too thin for walking on. Since, as a breed, ice fishermen are insane, I'm sure we'll lose one or two through the thin ice before March.
Which is just around the corner!
The days have been getting longer for two weeks already. I feel like spring is almost here. I know we're in for some severe cold and I hope we get some serious snow; we're still in draught conditions, after all, but I feel like spring is so close I can almost touch it.
The ice rink across the street is funny. They've been watering it since late in October but the afternoon sun keeps melting the top layer. The result is ice as smooth as silk for the skaters who show up around sun down. We didn't know if they were even going to put up the hockey boards this year but they did it yesterday afternoon. The ice was pretty watery by the time I got home from my walk.
Then, around 4:30, MJ called. She'd had a house full of kids all day and wanted some fresh air so she popped the babies in the car, picked me up and we walked around the lake again.
The sun set while we were down there and it was a spectacular, pink, blue, yellow, gold, red, magenta and violet sky we walked beneath. The sky was cloudy, which always leads to the best sun sets. The downtown skyline was lit up by the setting sun, with a dark, slate blue cloud bank behind it. It looked like it was made of polished gold. El Dorado never looked so gilded in the fevered imagination of the explorers. I could barely take my eyes off of it. It stayed lit up long after the sun had sunk too low for us to see it, reflecting off the upper stories of the glass towers downtown. The moon was out, too. It's like everything and everyone wanted to enjoy the glorious evening.
Then I got home to find my darling husband cooking up steak and lobster for dinner.
So far, 2012 is awesome!
