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Two important things I’ve realized in the last few days:
1. I’m not really into cold weather. Nothing against people who are, I’m just not. Became aware of it when my mom moved from Southern California to Northwest Colorado. My childhood friend Dan lived right near my mom in Steamboat Springs, married a girl from Steamboat. He loves it. Skiing, X-country, hunting, all kinds of outdoorsy stuff . . . he’s into all of it, and in all seasons.
I like warm weather, and don’t really discriminate among the various sub-genres of “warm”. Extreme heat, dry, humid, cloudy, you name it, I’m in. We have a divided walk schedule at our house because my wife will only walk in the morning or evening here in Asheville. It’s too hot/humid for her in the middle of the day. Makes no difference to me. I would kinda prefer that there be an ocean nearby — as it seems like having a swimable body of water does for heat tolerance what vicodin in the medicine cabinet does for pain tolerance — but in general I will choose any kind of heat over any kind of real cold (like snow cold) 100% of the time.
That’s the first thing . . . I like Summer. I grew up in Southern California. Didn’t like winters THERE. I would like to be able to surf without a wetsuit MOST of the year.
2. The second thing is that I am officially a zoo-only wild animals guy. Saw a black bear in the neighborhood across the lake the other day. Not particularly big. Didn’t charge me or even really notice me honestly. Doesn’t matter. Flagged down the first car that drove by, and got a ride a few blocks away. There’s a male wild turkey over there too who always chases me. Turkeys are protected here, so this guy acts like garribaldis do on the reefs around LJ. They KNOW they’re protected so they act like gangsters. All fine until they actually become aggressive. A note to any ill-mannered birds: I will choke the shit out of any turkey that chases me. I don’t care.
That’s all for now.
Posted on 6.29.09