[LMB] (chat) ...and the squirrels are merry (*)

[Lois McMaster Bujold]

So...

    I climbed onto my much-loathed treadmill for my morning trudge, 
waiting for nothing more interesting than a train (the Soo Line spur to 
Northville runs through the cutting at the bottom of the hill that is my 
backyard, and I have the treadmill set up looking out the big downstairs 
window).  No sooner had I done so than half a dozen squirrels appeared, 
chasing each other and tumbling about in the gently falling snow -- and 
one was an albino!  They kept it up, passing in and out of view up and 
down the trees, for the whole period, and seem to be at it still.  I'd 
think any sensible squirrel would head for its drey, with what the 
weather here is shaping up to be today.

    But the albino squirrel was exceedingly cool.  Sometimes, virtue 
*is* its own reward.

    Ta, L.

(*)  Anyone else here see _Office Space_?