BEING THANKFUL

You got to be thankful for what you got,”” says Bertine in Amy McKay’s novel THE BIRTHING HOUSE. If your man smokes, be thankful he doesn’t chew. If he smokes and chews, be thankful he doesn’t drink. If he does all three, be thankful he probably won’t live long.””
And if you laugh out loud at this, the way we did when first we heard it, then you might understand why, on Saturday, when the temperature rose to a sunny, balmy -20, we stopped huddling in the house and went skating. Sensible people know -20 is cold. Hardly anybody else went skating that day, leaving us the freedom of the oval. Just one more reason to be thankful.