Crappy, crappy weather day today! Of course, it was my day off. It has however, forced me to stay inside, getting some very mundane boring things done. Rainy, cloudy, dank ,damp and dark, so un-Florida like! However, we are already seeing sign of Spring...red buds popping on the maples! I know our former home is under a deep freeze....NO, we do not miss the cold and snow...just friends.
Mr. Bill heading off to work at the golf course this morning, not looking forward to the cool dampness. He jokingly remarks of the weather we put up with when first learning to play golf. I remember playing one warmer winter day, at Trumbull Golf Course in Groton with Chris and Richie, the ground still frozen, you had to pound the tee in the ground with your club. However, the sun was out, back then that signaled a good day for golf. At least once you hit the ball it sure travelled a good distance on the frozen fairways! Then we always tried to play as early in the Spring as possible, hoping to limber up the stiffness of joints due to the cold winter layoff. One early Spring day myself, Mr. Bill and Norman, head to the Norwich Golf Course, yeah, it is golf time! Needless to say it was more like mud season....how many balls did we loose?
Now I only enjoy the game of golf if the sun is out and seventy plus degrees! My goodness what a wimp! Florida is much like New England when talking about the weather, "Just wait a minute it will change!" We really have become sun worshippers, the old bones function quite well in the warmth of the sun. Talking with son Matthew last night, we agree, we miss New York City and the excitement of the major metropolitan areas of the Northeast, but you couldn't pay me enough to visit the cold and snow, now gripping the area. Remembering the cold weather of my youth, I really didn't care for it then, always anxiously awaiting the first signs of Spring....Pussy Willows, the first Robin and of course, my beloved "Red Bud Spring"!
People always joke, "You can say that now, but when the mercury hits ninety plus degrees, you'll be sorry". To all those non-believers, emphatically, "NOPE"! Give me the sun, it's body soaking warmth, "ain't nothing better than that"! I think about all the cold but sunny days at Fred's News, now understanding why everyone loved to sit in the front window, first thing in the morning. That glorious sun, a steaming cup of Fred's News Coffee, makes you forget "Oh the weather outside is frightful"! Oops wrong season, but the days are growing longer, more sunshine fills my world and with a little bit of luck, we will trek North sometime in June, it's Mr. Bill's fiftieth high school reunion. Frieda called to remind him and ask if he would come. Although the future of his health is far from undecided, we can plan...giving him something to look forward to! Whether we make it or not, too early to say...but it is a reachable goal.
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