Ice skating

Cole:  Have you been here before?
me: No.
Cole: Then why are you so good?
me: Because I have been skating since I was your age.
Cole:  Cool.  Some day, I will be able to tell that to my kids.

It gets cold here during the winter.  Not cold enough that you could see your breath, and not cold enough that our plants will ever know about frost, but our house has no heating and waking up in the morning and climbing out of a warm bed to an ambient air temperature of 45 degrees is not my idea of pleasant.

I took Cole and Cora ice skating.  because it seemed like a good thing to do.  It was the first time for both of them and they did well.  Cora spent most of the time with her hand on the railing around the edge of the rink.  I can only imagine how many thousands of hands have worn this railing smooth.