A true dialog. Setting: driving home after sundown.
Jamie: It's dark in this movie.
KR: Yes, it is dark outside. But this isn't a movie, it's real life.
Jamie: It's a movie about us.
In other news, we went out and got a Christmas Tree today. In the woods! With our own saw! We saw some critter tracks in the snow, one squirrel track and plenty of deer.
I carried Jamie through the snow and showed her the tracks. "Look Jamie, deer tracks."
She looked at them and cuddled tight into my arms. "I'm worried about the deer."
"Why are you worried?"
"The deer might bite me."
The trip was also notable for things that didn't happen. Karl didn't fall through the ice into the creek. The car didn't get thrown into the ditch by crusty snow berms shoving the wheels in unexpected directions. No-one got frostbite. No one we passed openly laughed at us for driving a Toyota mini-van in the woods in winter. Edit: And most important, Jamie was not bitten by a deer.
We got the tree right around the center of this map. There's snow of course, about 6-8" frozen to a solid crust.
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