Marsha:
> Brrrrrrrr. I see this guy and all I want to do is
make him a cup of hot > chocolate with marshmallows.
Winter for means hibernation,
> napping in-between a featherbed and down comforter.
SA: I went out with my 16 month old son while it was
still dark after we awoke. The near-half bright moon
clouded at times by the passing clouds. He didn't
want to walk much. He hasn't been able to get used to
the snow that much yet. When his hands touch the
snow, he stays bent over, hand in snow, stunned, not
moving a bit, then he cries. His hand becomes very
cold. We walked away from the house further into the
woods. The quiet winter, snow layed night. I put him
down as we were surrounded by trees. I lit a piece of
paper, and he picked up a stick, playing with the
small fire. He looked around a bit, then I picked him
up. We walked up this small hill into green eastern
hemlocks, near the tall white pine full of shiny,
brushy needles. The hemlock branches hung low to the
earth. He began to cry, some fear maybe, for I had
just put him down on the top of the hill and I had to
use both hands to pull myself all the way up. I
picked him up, but he kept crying. I found the spot I
was looking for, and sat him on my lap. I collected
dry leaves under the hemlocks, lit them, and walla! a
fire. I threw on the small, dry needleless hemlock
branches that lay abundantly on the earth. If anybody
knows of these small hemlock branches, they know how
easily they act as tinder. The fire grew, I threw in
some larger sticks, and my son immediately quite
crying, and began to play in the fire with a stick he
picked up. He walked around in the snow, near the
fire, looking around, coming back to the fire, playing
in the ambers. Fire - warms the heart more than as
biological felt heat!
SA
P.S. My wife and I have a featherbed pad, we received
as a gift this past Christmas. Feathers are
everywhere, and they stick sharply into my back. Then
last night, I was fixing the bed, and noticed the pad
wasn't over the featherbed part, and this pad probably
keeps the feathers in and stops them from poking
through into ones bare skin. So funny. So my wife
fixed it today, and we'll see if this will stop the
sharp feathers from poking at us.
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