Yesterday morning, the kids and I spent an hour in Spring Park enjoying (enjoying?) a small petting zoo. It was 95 degrees, but the kids didn't seem to mind as much as I did. My clothes were sticking to me and I wondered at the wisdom in wearing denim capris. As I longed for cotton shorts, I noticed a girl standing a few feet from me. I'm no longer any good at judging a gal's age...this woman could've been 20 or 40. But, at any rate, she had to be hot!
When I say hot, I do not imply that she was good-looking, though she may have been. I couldn't look at her face because of my shock in her attire. On a hot day, I am used to being assaulted by the indecency of women all around me. Hot weather seems to be permission to show as much skin as possible in any gathering. This was a gathering primarily of mamas and children, and yet, on some women, there was more skin than material showing.
This girl, however, was not in that category at all. I remind you it was 95 degrees, sticky, without as much as a small breeze, and somehow the smell of the animals seemed to add to the heat. This girl was dressed in a sweatshirt and blue jeans, that were tucked into fur-lined boots. I couldn't take my eyes off her. As my children passed by her, I wanted to shield them, for surely she was running a temperature! What was WRONG with her?!
She appeared very relaxed and comfortable. It was some sort of magic that she worked. While the rest of us, moderate to scantily clad women were damp and red-faced, this bundled up anomaly simply stood by herself with a contented look about her.
I did enjoy the look on my kids' faces as they took a ride on the Shetland pony (named Popsicles) and fed the ducks, bunnies, and goat. But this oddly dressed young woman took the prize for capturing my attention above all else.
Against my prophecies, she did not suffer heat stroke, nor did she have so much as one bead of sweat on her brow the last time I risked a glance her way. That woman most assuredly practices wizardry and I found myself rathering to look in the direction of the women in short-shorts and too-tight-tanks...looking at the sweat-less sweathshirted girl made me sweat even more!
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