The Return

We have arrived back in the north country just in time for some beautiful spring weather. This was one of the advantages of spending the winter in Florida, being able to drive back depending on the conditions. However, we had quite a night sleeping in the van on I 81 at the West Virginia Welcome Center. We were shocked to see (and feel!) that it was only 40 degrees. We hunkered down in the back with Dave on the bench seat with a doubled up blanket, and me on the floor in a cozy sleeping bag (I gave Dave the softer of the two sleeping options because he drove...way too many trucks on the road for me...in fact very few cars). The cold crept in quickly and in two hours I had to start the motor and run the heater for 15 minutes. Two hours after that I said let's get out of here and we headed further north. We even saw some snow on the side of the road outside of Binghamton. Despite being sleep deprived, at least it gave us the opportunity to arrive back home sooner than expected. Even though we said we were going to take much needed naps, we went to work instead. Water, power, and heat came on, van was unloaded, unpacked, and everything that needed to go to Ticonderoga was repacked and reloaded. Even the birds got watered and fed (they were trying to take a bath in a little puddle of dirty melted snow in the bird bath).  All is well in the house and there were not many dead flies and no mice. Even the yard looks better than usual because thanks to Jim R., he mowed and then bagged all the mulched leaves. It's a perfect time to be home and everything is blooming including leaves on trees, my flowering quince apple and the forsythia bush.

The sun is shining today and it is in the mid 60's. Tomorrow it will rain and then time to head to check out Ti before we will really get to work on the yard. There are plenty of projects to complete before summer and we are ready!