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“There's one for the money and two for the sin
And three for the tongue when authority kicks in

There's four for the reason and five for the tricks
But nothing's going to save you from the six six six

There's seven for the days and seven for the nights
And seven for the heavens and the tunnel and the lights

There's a pattern, there's a pattern, there's a pattern there to follow
There's a pattern, there's a pattern, there's a pattern there to follow”

“Patterns” - Band Of Skulls


We have had an inordinate amount of snow this year, or so it seems anyway. Enough that there is about 1-2 feet of it covering every shortcut known to man. You know, the lawn you cut across on the way to the driveway, the quick path to lunch you take instead of walking all the way to the street sidewalk... its everywhere.

When I was a kid, I used to walk to my friends house across a big field behind my grandma's place. ( yep, thats me, Norman Rockwell's muse...) Once it got to be winter, you generally had 2 choices: get your feet wet by trudging through 2 feet of snow to make a path right to where you were going, or take some other persons meandering tracks and stay dry.

It took me way longer than it should have to realize that if I just wore warm boots I could walk any way I wanted. It's funny how some things haven't changed, like how good it feels to cut a path in untouched snow for example...

Try it, no point wasting time just cause you are afraid of getting your feet wet.