dharmacurious , 4 days ago

When I was a kid we lived in Florida briefly.* On Christmas, we went swimming, did a cookout, and went fishing. It was awesome. Looked it up, it was 82f/27c that day. 2 months later, in February, we were in North Carolina, where there was snow on the ground, and huge chunks of ice floating in the lake at the campground we were staying at. The lake had a giant slide in it, about 50 feet/15 meters. Right in the middle of the lake. Me and my brother could not resist. Ended up swimming there on my birthday. Haha. There’s no point to this story, hot Christmas just made me think of it.

*At times like this, I never know if I should explain things like Florida. On the one hand, I’m being presumptuous if I assume someone on the other side of the planet has a working knowledge of one of our 50+ subnational jurisdictions, on the other I’m acting like I have to explain Florida to someone who has access to a super US centric internet… Blegh.