Last night saw a fall of light snow: enough snow that I can’t quite belittle it as a light snowfall, but light enough and little enough snow that I don’t think that schools should be closed. But closed they are here in Montgomery County.
That said, I continue to like the county. Max and I went to one of its libraries yesterday for a storytime, and so we are even better stocked with books than usual.
Nate the Great is a favorite in our house. The publisher lists 26 Nate books. We’ve read 4 of them so far.
My favorite, and the most appropriate for today, is the one in which Nate has to follow a snowy trail in order to find his own birthday present. I love the note that Nate leaves for his mother as he embarks on the case.
I am going out
into the cold world to find
something strange. Love.
Nate doesn’t set out to write haiku, but this note trims down nicely to a haiku.
I’m posting this in a new category: Home Entertainment. We will go the Wheaton Mall today, but I can’t bring myself to categorize a trip to a mall about a mile away as DC-area wandering. Not that I feel at home in the mall, but one of the kids needs shoes, we’re almost out of milk – and we’re right out of chips!