Perilous Perambulation
23 December 2018 | Guelph, Ontario
Sunday 23 December 2018
After screwing around yesterday as long as possible shirking any hint of productive activity, was inveigled by Jan into a walk outside in below freezing temperatures. Wind was blowing about ninety knots (slight hyperbole) making it particularly life threatening. She enticed me with Tim Horton doughnuts and a pocket full of looneys and twonies. For those unfamiliar with Canada except as a place where nice people come from to spend winters in Florida, Tim's is an iconic coffee shop and a loonie is the one dollar coin stamped with a loon (this is a bird and not to be confused with people who voluntarily spend winters in the north). Twonie is the two dollar version. At least there's no snow on the ground to make walking even more hazardous (snow is that white stuff formed by ice crystals that facilitates Alpine skiing and makes pretty Christmas card pictures, but is otherwise useful primarily as a warning that temperatures are far too cold - it is dangerous and to be avoided). Jan may find me more difficult to lure out a second time.
Jack