I provide this photo taken from our condo this morning as a pubic service to enrich the lives of those of you unfortunate, or perhaps intelligent enough to live in places with good climates. A blizzard it wasn’t, lasting less than an hour and even with temperature only slightly above freezing the snow is already gone.
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In an exchange of emails with a friend, I wrote:
There are small penguins, not much bigger than a football, in NZ waters. I have few principles, but one of them is not to swim in water cold enough for penguins.
John wrote back:
I like the penguin principle, that's a good way to live, with a few solid principles. When my son sailed from California to Australia with little offshore experience I tried to imbue him with two principles : 1) stay on the boat, 2) keep the water out of the boat. It gets confusing if you have too many.
I agree. Those three are enough.
