Care to join us on the beach?

I went, I saw, I commented. You do have a respectable amount of snow in front of your house.

What an excellent suggestion! I’m going to add a jolt of cherry juice to mine for a festive color.

I know, I know, you feel the need to wear cute high heels while drinking beverages with umbrellas in them.

Certainly. It will brighten up our tourism income for the month considerably.

I think you have precisely understood the appeal. Katherine will be so pleased. And I look forward to meeting you.

If there is we can rewrite it. We could stick the umbrella handle in a cinnamon stick. We may be onto something here.

That will be good, especially if the yeti is wearing snowpants with pockets, as I have something to put in them.

Welcome Birgitte! We were saving you a seat.

We do have “winter bathers.” They usually call themselves Polar Bears, and they tend to fling themselves into the icy water, splash a couple of times, and run right out again. They are all daft, of course, but not suicidal. I have been known to go wading in winter, but never on purpose.

Katherine really captured it, didn’t she! I like the thermos of cocoa. A bonfire might be nice . . . but I think it would diminish the aesthetics of the scene. Of course, my own self, wrapped in my winter layers and plopped into one of the chairs, would go a long way toward destroying the effect, too, so what the heck. Bring on the bonfire!

Thank you, Kate. It’s Katherine’s photo, which explains why it’s so good. I like peaceful winter beaches, too. Miss Sadie and the Cowboy are wildly enthusiastic about bracing beaches, when the wind is howling and the waves are crashing. No accounting for tastes.