Cardinal Rules

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
-- Socrates

Earlier in the week, when it was snowing and then ‘slushing’ out, we had a young couple visiting us. Clearly the missus was less than thrilled with her husband’s choice of   luncheonette (our back porch) or possibly, maybe she’s reminding him that if they’d gone to Miami, as SHE’D suggested, they wouldn’t be suffering in this dreadful weather.

Or not.

Here is our lonely, stalwart philosopher cardinal husband, at left, contemplating life, the universe and everything.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
-- Douglas Adams