When I was writing yesterday’s blog in which I explained that I do not pay attention to weather forecasts, I managed to peek outside. The sun was out and it looked gorgeous. I didn’t exactly make plans to go bike riding, but the aspiration was definitely there.
Then I noticed one of my neighbours walking down the street. She was wearing her winter coat and a toque (that’s a winter hat in case you didn’t know). I found it hard to reconcile these things, but not impossible. There are lots of times when I just don’t understand the weather. I doubt that it is a Canadian thing, but my students so often wax lyrical about how predictable and/or consistent the weather in their country that they have me convinced it is a Canadian thing.
I had to go out and find a mailbox to return something to Amazon. There is a mailbox across the street from me incorporated into the super-box that replaced door to door mail delivery on my street. The problem was that the opening was too small for the item I was sending back. I had to go and find one of those traditional giant red mailboxes. If I were going to my office to work the next day, I would have waited because there are a few of them between the subway station and the building I teach in. Since I’m working from home until at least the middle of May, this really wasn’t an option.
I took a stroll in the rather cool weather. I found a mailbox outside the convenience store that also has a post office outlet inside–at least I think they have a post office outlet inside. I haven’t been there in a while and I know they reduced their store size by about 50%–the space they gave up became a kebab place. Maybe they gave up the post office franchise….
When I came back, I sat at my chair, searching YouTube videos for interesting videos of “makers” creating things and giving tours of their workshops. Not the most productive way to spend the afternoon, but I had done the teaching part, I had gone for the cool walk, and now I needed something to just turn off.
From the corner of my eye, I spotted something weird going on outside my window. There were a million flakes falling down in the bright afternoon sunlight. I wasn’t worried about any of it sticking around, so I just chuckled inwardly and quite consciously decided that unless something truly remarkable happened, it would be Today’s Perfect Moment.
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If anything, I find the weather completely unpredictable out here in Canada. It could snow one day and be the hottest day of the year the next!
It has snowed four times today. Nothing sticks of course.