Winter Seed Catalog Moon
You can take a Minnesotan out of a Minnesota January, but you can’t take the Minnesota January out of the Minnesotan. Result? When it was 72 today here in Denver, I left the hotel with my jacket on. Tomorrow it will be a 6 degree high at home, a 66 degree swing.
This is not unusual weather for Denver over MLK weekend. I’ve seen it at least three times before. Still, it’s strange.
Today Ruth took me on a tour of her Museum of Science. First stop was the space odyssey where we shot large steel bearings into sand to examine the impact craters, then wondered at a huge iron meteorite, a chunk from Winslow, Arizona. Such a fine sight to see.
We wandered through Jurassic Park dioramas and saw a Woolly Mammoth skeleton. Picture available when I get home.
Ruth had been to, and wanted me to see, a health exhibit. A good idea. You received a plastic, credit card size pass when you entered and as you went to various areas you inserted the card, got your heart rate and ekg read, heart rate under pressure, stride, bone density. Then, at the end you stick your card in a slot where your data is read and printed out for you. Fun.
We then went to Steve’s Snapping Dogs for lunch. Steve’s is a sort of uber hotdog emporium. A great place. The clerk has a trip to Shakopee planned in February. She asked me how it would be. Cold.
Ruth is impatient to sit in the car like a grown up, a privilege allowed at age 8, only 3 months away for her.
The big game is on now, but I’m going to take a nap.
