I HATE WINTER

The weather here in Alabama is extremely cold for the south. We have been holed up in the house for two days now and I am starting to go stir crazy. I know most people would love to have a couple of days to just lay around the house and do nothing but for some reason this really gets to me. It is not that we haven't done anything the last couple of weeks, we spent five days at the group lodge with family and friends. Then when we got back on Sunday and unpacked everything and had a good nights sleep, we left Monday and spent two days in Tunica MS. We usually do this to celebrate our anniversary. This is always my idea, because I love playing the slots. John goes along with the plan because I am easier to live with if I get my way.

We did have a great time and probably needed the time away with just the two of us. We stayed at the Hollywood Casino hotel. They have the deep memory foam beds, so we rested well. We spent a few hours at the Outlet Mall looking around. I found a blouse and John got a new pair of shoes. I'm not much of a shopper. I see thing that looks great on the rack but when I try it on, it looses something in the translation.

We spent a little time at Fitzgrarld's. If you go, head up the escalator. When you get to the top there will be some eletronic games along the wall to the left. They are called Platium something or other. They may be new, because they were paying off. We must have set and played for three or four hours. John would have won pretty well if I hadn't kept asking for money:) We started to stay two more nights, but then decided to come home since the weather was supposed to get bad. We got home about 7:00pm on Wednesday.

Thursday morning we awoke to a dusting of snow. Now I know that sounds like nothing to some parts of the country. But when we have snow here, the roads are not treated with salt and whatever else they put on the roads. It usually rains, then freezes, then a little snow on top of the ice and suddenly it is slick a goose poop. School was out in our whole area. Some work places closed down to keep people off the roads. The temp. this morning was 12 degrees and now at 5:49 PM it is 21 degrees. Hopefully tomorrow will be a nice day. I will be happy just to go to the grocery store.

John made a few pictures for me. As you can see it is just a cold, gray, miserable day. It makes me long for the nice hot days of summer, with just a touch of persperation glistening on your forehead and a big glass of ice tea sitting next to you while you're lounging in the hammock. AWWW!!!!