I’m not accustomed to seeing cotton bolls in March. Then again, I’m not accustomed to seeing snow in March, either:
It’s still spring, by the way. And at lunch I saw this second, or third, sign of spring:
It’s hard to keep count, there have been daffodils and the eternal budding-but-not-opening of trees and my first robin of the year, and pointless, too. Winter isn’t hardly done with us yet.
But, for this afternoon’s neighborhood 5K, when it had warmed up to an impossible 46°, I wore a sweatshirt. I did that for the first 1.8 or so, and then discarded it. I ditched it just before the shady and cold segment.
Now, normally that would be one of those things you’d laugh and shiver about. Timing, am I right? But I did this in the neighborhood. I did this in the neighborhood, the place where, presumably, I know where the shady spots are.
So this was a lovely experience. Ten years ago we were at Peju, got a few of these and held on to one. And held on to it and held on to it and held on to it. After a while it became a joke.
Then, as I tend to do, I got sentimental about it. We got some more, so that solved the nostalgia problem. And by then we figured we should probably ought to wait until the 10th anniversary.
Tonight we opened a @PEJU_Winery Provence we got 10 years ago today.
Cork didn't make it, but it was worth the wait.
(Please send more.) pic.twitter.com/6SU3F1m9qM
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) March 22, 2018
And here we are. Tonight was the 10th anniversary. The cork didn’t cooperate, but we filtered out the debris.
It was quite tasty after we let it breathe. I don’t know if it was worth hanging on to for all of that time, but it was worth getting sentimental about.
