Winter brings it’s own sort of challenges. Some of these are big like the Polar Vortex. And 
some are small. Take for example those pesky cracks, mostly on your thumbs, that no amount of moisturizer seems to prevent or cure. Even when they’re tiny, that can keep you up at night throbbing away.
Charlie wrote a poem about one of these little irritations. Not big enough to actually do anything about except complain. Gotta admit though, doing it in a poem is classy.
I’ll Get To It One Of These Days
There’s a nail head that catches my shovel, it seems
Whenever it snows on the deck
And then I think, Oh, what the heck
I should just fix it, what would it take?
A pound of the hammer? It would be cake
But the thought, instead, doesn’t stay in my head
I’ll get to it one of these days
It’s so unessential, inconsequential
The thing never gets on the list
It’s a problem that doesn’t exist
Until we get hit with the next 6 to 10
And I gotta shovel all over again
I’ll dig and I’ll flail and get caught on that nail
I’ll get to it one of these days
See, if I with my hammer start pounding away
I’m sure to find more nails to pound
The problem would only compound
I’d run out of nails, have to go into town
In short, this one little chore will become
A project I’ll wish I had never begun
Prob’ly the thing is to wait until spring
For now, the bugger can stay
All morning I’ve pushed and I’m too friggin’ bushed
I’ll shovel around it and call ‘er a day
That’s it for now. Catch you on the flip side!
P.S. Ground Hog’s day has come and gone, people. If you haven’t already, take those Christmas decorations down. Thank you!
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