Well, it doesn't look that cold, but trust me! Every night is around 15 and every day is around 30. We were being so smug when Seattle had snow and we were in shorts. Are we paying for it now. Been cold for about 3 weeks now, and no end in sight. Good thing we got away to Charleston for a while.
Before it got too cold in the garage, Bert did a nice job of building these shelves in our kitchen. They look great and help us with some extra storage. But it is so cold out there now that the Coke I had stored in the garage, which seemed like a good idea at the time, exploded! I am rethinking my storage out there.
January was busy, with a whirlwind trip to Honolulu and Lahaina, and a visit to the Bay Area to see my family. What a great idea it was not to fly 9 hours home on a red eye with a 5 hour time change, and instead break the trip in SF, and stay over with Mom and Dad for the weekend. My brother, sister and cousins all showed up for a visit, and it was gab gab gab!
The trip to Hawaii was short but productive. Its always amazing to step off the plane in Hawaii and remember just how fabulous it really is there. We had meetings with operators in Maui, flew to Honolulu for two days of meetings there, and back at the airport that night!
When I got home, it was a busy 10 days of work and meetings to get ready to go to the convention. Bert and I drove to Charleston, with the car full of fishing gear. It took about 10 hours to get there, because we are easily distracted and stop often. The tool outlet, and the pecan factory store were good distractions though. I was busy once we got there, but we did take time off to visit our friends Charlie and Joann. Their kids are great fun.
Bert tried to get some fishing done, but it was cold, so the last day he gave up and went to the art museum. We headed for home up the coast, and spent the night at Wrightville Beach, NC. We had intended to stay in Myrtle Beach, SC, but when we drove thru we were creeped out by the level of tacky commercial development that we saw. When you are used to NW beaches (ie no one there) Myrtle Beach is an eye opener. I have never seen so many putt putt courses and fake volcanoes! Not that I don't admire a good putt putt course, but not on every block!
The next day we toured the old part of Wilmington, NC and we were going to head out to Cape Hattaras. But the more we thought about it, the more we were worried that we had frozen pipes, or some other catastrophe at home, so we hit the Interstate and headed home. The house was fine, of course, when we got home, and while it is sunny out, dang it is cold. So we have spent the weekend inside. We did go to the movies yesterday, we figured that was a 'warm' activity. Today we are going to go for a ride, since it is supposed to start snowing tomorrow.
Come on Spring!
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