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Looking forward to the Olympics!

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Don't forget the Kitten Bowl...

The smell of chocolate chip cookies and the warmth of the oven, providing our winter weigh gain. The white snow cocoon forcing us to stay inside, and inactive.  The dry air from constant temperature battles. All are symptoms of our Minnesota winter.

Like flu season, it started off slowly with a few drips and dips in temperature. Swelling at the Holidays. But now lingering on into February, it’s epidemic.

So we eat and sleep and look outside. And dream…

Of warm sun unfiltered through thick window panes

Of life dotting the landscape- squirrels lounging, plants planning, children playing

Of yellow, the sun colored air of summer,

Of blue, in an unclouded sky,

Of fresh green not tinted white

Of rainbows, the promise of freshness

Of throwing back the woolen white blanket of winter

Recovering from the Flu

And bursting into Hay fever season.

Beautiful day visiting the Trumpeter Swans at Monticello

Then lunch at Psycho Suzy's!

Why when January is less busy
Do I have more trouble finding time
Do the cold days stall our muscles
Or the wind chills freeze our brains
Is it just too cold
To do much of anything
Except escape from reality
In front of the TV?

You'd think this long dreary time
Would be perfect for writing
But all I can conjure
Are fantasies of warm weather-
Visions of walking outside
Without bundling up
Feeling the soft grass under my feet
Instead of sliding down the sidewalk
Hearing the sweet song of birds
Instead of the whistling of the wind.

I guess I'll just have to be content
With sitting by my window
And imagining the cold world going by
Is a Documentary on the History Channel
Either Global Warming aftermath
A study in Antarctica
Or the Apocalypse
I think it's time to change the channel!

Excited about a new Book Club Year of Reading;

Rez Life; Dave Truer
Canada; Richard Ford
Major Pettigew's Last Stand; Helen Simonson
Zeitan; Dave Eggers
Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao; Junot Diaz

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