It got up to a whopping 8 degrees yesterday afternoon here in Denver, but the heat wave is now over, and as of this morning, it is a rather cool six below zero. And naturally, I have to have drop off my car to have some work done by 8:00 A.M. so that I can catch the bus home without having to wait an hour or so. Nothing like waiting for a bus in below zero temperatures, especially with a wind chill of around -15. It would definitely be time to head to Stuart, Florida and those nice 70 degree temperatures, if only my sister Susan and I weren't renting our condo out down there to help pay expenses. And I am pretty sure our tenants would not want us to show up with our suitcases and "crash" there for a few days - or even better, a few weeks. Still, the snow does make it very pretty, especially in Denver's Washington Park, where I took the photograph on the left the other day, with Monkey Island in the background.
We've told our tenants down in Florida we will extend their lease for one more year, and so we will have to wait 18 month to start living the good life, commuting between Denver and Stuart at our leisure. In the meantime, we will just have to grin and bear it. Of course, the geese in the photograph on the right have the option of heading south any time they want, but instead choose to hang out here in Denver all year round, just like those damn Californians. And why do the geese put up with below zero temperatures instead of simply flying south? There is a reason why the word "birdbrain" was invented.
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