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My First Picnic This Year
Is it too late to make a New Years Resolution?
On Sunday, after a week of disgusting gray cold arctic weather, we actually had a nice warm sunny day. The temperature managed to sneak into the fifties (Fahrenheit) for the first time this year. I had checked the weather forecast so I knew it was coming. I was prepared.
The night before I whipped up a batch of my secret recipe potato salad. Around noon on Sunday I cooked up a hot sandwich — a spicy chicken patty with melted Swiss cheese, thinly-sliced onion and some spinach leaves between toasted rye bread — and I wrapped it in aluminum foil to keep it warm. I then put some magic potato salad in a container and, along with a fork, I put it all into a bag then walked to the local city park that is three and a half blocks away.
And I had my first picnic of the year! In January!
This particular city park has plenty of grass and trees in addition to a sanded playground and a band shell, where in summers concerts are held. The snow was rapidly melting and large swaths of grass had appeared and were getting bigger. It was so nice to see the ground!
The name of the park, by the way, is, ‘City Park.’ The streets are all named with letters or numbers. The founding fathers of this town had zero imagination!
