This is Orange, although Orange is her code name – her real name is sealed in the files of the Very Secret Stuff Office. She decided to get some exercise and participated in the Tyler, Texas Half marathon this past week-end. Her time was 4 minutes and 32 seconds, most of which was peeling herself off building along the course. Look at the route and I think you can see why.

Yes, a lot of really sharp turns and when you’re going so very, very fast – the broom helped, turbo-charged, dontcha know, sometimes you just can’t keep from kissing concrete.

The officials did not know what to do with someone who turned in such a spectacular time, so they gave her first prize in a “special” category. That happens a lot to Orange. In an interview, she disclosed that she works in the off-season as one of Santa’s covert elves since she can cover so much territory so fast.

In this computer age, she wears a camera and has a chip embedded to help keep all her designations of naughty and nice and the variations thereof safely on record. So be watching the skies . . . and your windows. Orange suggests, “You really do want to be good.”