Quite a while ago, Erica and I bought a cheap pink lawn flamingo as a joke for my parent’s front yard. I assumed that they would see it, maybe giggle a bit, and then take it away, never thinking of the thing again. No, no, no. That mess has been sitting in the front yard for so long at this point that it is no longer pink, but instead stark white. They actually liked it! They liked it enough to keep it! My gift meant only as a practical joke was actually embraced. Weird. Today is the first day of February, and I feel that in the same way, weather is playing some strange practical joke. Yesterday, the weather was nice. A little chilly, but nothing you wouldn’t expect from January in Texas. But then, February shows up, and absolutely everything is closed because of snow and ice. This wasn’t even like the pretty snowflakes from Day Nine. This was Dairy Queen blizzard style snow. Weather here is just strange. But now with all the white everywhere, at least the albino flamingo in my parent’s front yard finally doesn’t feel so out of place anymore!