Are you celebrating? Here in the office it has been declared tater tot Thursday. During the winter everyone from the office has lunch together on Fridays and has cheeseburgers and tator tots at Eddies. But tomorrow is a holiday so we are celebrating it today. This is the first week of this yearly tradition. I have been told it is one of the ways to beat the winter blues. I haven't felt blue about winter because one I love winter and two we hardly have snow on the ground. Everyone was complaining about how awful the weather was yesterday but I thought it was great.
Walking to work the ground was icy but there is wonder in the stillness of the dark. I did wear my ice grippers yesterday but I don't think I really needed them. I had a traveling companion for a little while, a small fox quietly exited the trail ahead of me, stopped and stared then continued on in the same traveling direction as me. He was no more concerned about me as I was of him. Just two beings enjoying a walk in the quiet of the morning.
It is amazing how you don't realize how long it stays dark, Every day we lose about four minutes of daylight but I hadn't really been paying attention until yesterday. The sky was dark until about 9:30 and by 5:30 we were back in the dark. We still have 41 days of increasing darkness and the thing about so much nighttime is that you want to go to bed a lot earlier than normal. I guess that makes up for wanting to stay awake past normal bedtimes in the summer months.
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