doodledee

Today was downright balmy here in the greater Twin Cities area.

How balmy, you ask?

I think it officially hit something like 40 balmy degrees out. It was so balmy that Dunn Bros drug a couple of patio tables out onto Nicollet Mall for the first time this year. It was so balmy that our broomball league's one-night-only marathon playoff tournament had to be cancelled at the last minute because of mushy ice. It was so balmy that for the first time ever I heard someone on the street remark about how balmy it was.

But don't be fooled! Winter has not ended! For amidst all of today's balm there remained a certain, shall we say, 'nip' in the air. True, it wasn't necessarily perceptible to all, but if the window mannequins at Marshall Field's are any indication, none of us should rush to put our coats away just yet.

You could put your eye out on one of those things.