AAAAAHHHHHH! What a wonderful day! I'm sitting on the front porch of the house in South Carolina this morning, drinking my coffee in my pajamas, watching the birds and the dog play on the front lawn in the balmy temperature of 55 degrees!!! I'm not missing the snow, the wind, the cold, the icy rain. Not at all! Eeekk. Guess I should have shaved. Oh, well, don't want to eradicate the thermal properties of leg hair!
When I left Vermont Saturday morning, it was 5 degrees at 10 am and it was cold. I left with three layers on. Long johns, undershirt, sweat shirt, the whole nine yards. By the time my trip was done on Saturday, I had completely driven out of ALL the snow and was in Marion, PA at my cousins house, just in time for steak, baked potato and Caesar salad. Couldn't have timed it better if I tried. The first thing I did - go in the bathroom and take off the layers. :) It was 42 degrees at 7 pm. Sigh. I can handle this.
After a quiet night of visiting and hanging out, I went to bed and slept wonderfully. The next morning, I went visiting to my Aunt and Uncle in nearby Maryland. I got to see all my cousins, with one exception.
Monday morning I was back on the road again, headed south. By the evening, I was in Anderson, SC. Warm, no SNOW, hell, they are even getting ready to start mowing the grass down here!!!!
Hanging out with the Mom and Dad (I adopted them when I was a teenager) and their menagerie. They have 5 dogs, 3 house cats, 2 horses, 4 goats, 1 barn cat. I truly do feel right to home.
Mom is sick, so we have been laying low, but did manage to get to one store this afternoon. Bought 9 dress shirts and 2 pairs of pajamas for $35 at the thrift store. Got a few small things for my girls, also.
The weather is supposed to be in the low to mid 60's all week. I have been outside most of the day, in my t-shirt and pants and my crocks. It got a little windy tonight, so around 8 pm I put my sweat shirt on. Torture, I assure you.
My cold is almost completely gone. My asthma is hardly bothering me. I'm sleeping through the night with no coughing fits. I think I've gone to heaven....
No worries, though. Unfortunately, my clock will chime midnight and the coach will turn back into a pumpkin and I'll have to wind my way north. My plans are to stop in Maryland overnight on Saturday and finish the torturous trip back north on Monday. Sigh. I'm so gonna have to make plans to come south for two months next year. I can't believe how good I feel in the middle of winter down here in the warm weather.
I did give my husband notice. As soon as our youngest is out of school in 3 1/2 years, I'm south for the winter. With or without him. But my horses are coming with me.....
Just heard the weather forecast - 52 degrees tomorrow morning at 7 am. Don't know how much more of this I can handle. I might have to just stay to find out... no, no, I promised hubby I would be home on Sunday. Sigh. So wish warm weather weren't so far to travel.
I'm thinking of you all up north and will sit with my coffee in the morning, on the porch, and think of you all. Don't worry. It will be worse when I go home. You all won't think anything of another day of snow and cold. It will truly be torture for me after having the luxury of warmth and sunshine and grass growing....
How many more days until spring????
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