Do ants use baby carrots for their snowmen’s noses?
Okay, it’s cold now. I know last week I said it was relatively warm. It’s not anymore. It’s cold. Not as cold as it could be, but getting pret-ty cold.
Thus, in true wuss fashion, I layered up for my run. Top layer: my new luminous green Rare Species fleece. Very nice! Money well spent, I can tell already. (And a bargain!) Soft, warm and visible. My neck is cozy and warm in the shirt’s insulating collar. Ahhh. Nice!
Today’s plan called for a short run, so I headed out to do my loop through the village. As soon as I got to the bottom of the hill and started along Foxborough Road, the sky started shooting down tiny pellets of snow. Rock on! They didn’t stick. They didn’t even last. They have salted the white cliffs of Dover and are forging on toward the northern part of France at this point, considering how fast the clouds are moving today. But, all the same I got excited at the thought of snow. My head immediately filled with the image of white powder dusting the fields behind my house. It’s too close to Christmas and all the cards depicting sleigh rides through the woods not to romanticize about snow.
But, I don’t like to be cold. I don’t like to be cold and wet. (Unless I am swimming in the ocean and it’s 90 degrees on the beach.) I would have some major adjusting to do if I lived anywhere it snowed. It is possible I only get excited at the hint of snow because I am never in it. There is an extremely good chance I just like the idea of snow. So, it is probably best the ‘snowfall’ I witnessed today ended at the few stones that dropped in the time span of about thirty seconds.
No, an ant would not have had enough snow to build a snowman with what precipitated today. But, it made me smile. Let’s face it, if it had really snowed, I would have been freezing!
Today’s run
Distance: 3.2 miles
Time: 30:58
Pace: 9:40 min/mile
Wednesday, 24th January 2007 at 14:14
No they don’t use baby carrots ….they use nano-nanas! …ha ! ha!