Best Laid Plans

I was recently reminded of an event that occurred while I was living in Lake Tahoe. Someone once said to me that it can snow in every month of the year in Lake Tahoe. That was made evident one particular July Fourth. I was on my way to work and had just parked my car in the employees parking lot of one of the large casinos. It was a cold day out and the wind was blowing. I was walking with my then girlfriend and we met another co-worker also on his way to work. The clouds had just started to sprinkle the area again with some light snow. This was a continuance of the light snow that had been dropping all day. We noticed a little squirrel scammering around the parking lot between the cars. He would find a small pine cone and quickly scurry towards a tree. He looked nervous. Which may have been my own interpretation of his situation. Here it was July. The last snows just melted three months ago and now it was snowing again. What this squirrel must have thought at this new snow fall. I pictured him as nervously thinking that winter had arrived and he wasn't ready. I saw the panic in his face as he looked for food. I got a little chuckle out of this. I wanted to tell him to relax. That he had plenty of time. But he was too busy and probably wouldn't have listened to me anyway. I went to work.

David.