Polly, a friend from Kathie's investment club, is visiting for a few days. Yesterday, she and Kathie decided to go cross-country skiing on the lake. Of course, Tighe would not stand for his mistress to do anything like that without him, so Kathie decided to make him wear his booties. This is a funny thing to watch, because he doesn't like the feel of them, and once they are on, he dances around lifting his feet like they are stuck in tar.
Here are the intrepid athletes about to head down to the lake.
Getting the skis to snap onto the toes of the boots is always a little tricky.
Then off the went. Two forms of difficulty are added. First, during the initial outing, you have to plow through the snow and groom your own trail. On the way back and also during the second outing in the afternoon, they were able to follow the prior trail. Second, Tighe likes to follow very close behind and tends to constantly step on the trailing edge of your skis just as you attempt to glide forward. I know this from my own experience. Eventually, he begins to take lots of side trips to do some exploring, so it works out.
They returned rosy cheeked and exercised. Tighe left two of his booties somewhere behind, buried in the snow, forever lost.
I stayed behind to bake bread and to read. Currently, I am reading Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson. She is a younger sister of Steve Jobs, although she did not meet him until she was 25 (he had been placed for adoption prior to her birth). She wrote Anywhere But Here and two other novels, The Lost Father and A Regular Guy, all of which, as I understand, have parallels to her own life and the lives of her parents and brother. You can read more about her here or on this Wikipedia page.
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