Outside and Inside

Herb took the day off from work. He has comp time to burn. It was a cold day in the Saintly City, in fact, my favorite web site reports a low of 1 degree Fahrenheit above zero. But the sun was out part of the time so it warmed into the 20's. But we have been continuously below freezing for seven days, since November 27. Herb and I took a trip to the big park to walk in the full spectrum light source and to visit the Poinsettia Show. [I never know how to pronounce "poinsettia", but the on-line dictionary says there are two acceptable pronunciations, the favored is to pronounce the "ee - ah" at the end, but just "ah" is ok, too.] We parked by the lake and trudged through the snow to the big glass building with the tropical plants inside. The Conservatory.


Inside the plants were colorful and the room warm. The color for poinsettias comes from the leaves rather than flowers, and some of them are very red. Herb is in the picture, but he has his back to the camera. He is dressed for walking outside on a cold day in Minnesota.



I had Monday night tennis with the geezers at Wooddale. We only managed to finish the first set before our time expired. The tennis was close, which took a lot of time, and also, we had to take an injury timeout so that Tennis Dennis could recover from a swinging volley that hit him so that he had to bend over and wince for a while. He recovered nicely after a time and the tennis went on. 6-4, 4-5 (time up).

The length of the day in St Paul today: 8 hours 59 minutes. The actual sun was out for some of that time.