Okay, here's a fun topic for you girls who are freezing your fannies off right now: What is your warm weather fantasy that you think of on these deep freeze days?
Yesterday, while out doing my trip to the doctor and then a day in the city, I sat in the sun and made a couple of calls from my car. It's been a truly gray, overcast winter here in NC, and although I know our temtps do not nearly approach what you folks suffer through, it's been a cold one for us, too. The sun finally really broke through yesterday morning...all I had to do was find a spot out of the wind and soak up the rays.
It reminded me of sheltering on the sunny south side of a concrete block barn when I was a child playing in the barnyard. I remember that wonderful discovery...that it could be positively balmy on even the coldest day if you broke the wind and caught the sun's power. When I felt that familiar sensation yesterday, it took me back nearly fifty years, to a hillside that doesn't even exist anymore.
I am looking forward to stretching out in the hammock on my screened-in porch, shady trees whispering overhead. Late afternoon sunshine is filtering through, and I am reading a great book, with some old-timey music playing on the stereo out by the pool. There's a nice, tall glass of iced tea sweating on the tile table beside me. Mike will be in for supper in a few minutes, and we'll take a dip and drink a glass of his homemade wine first.
That is my warm weather fantasy this morning, with snow starting to coat out world yet again. What's yours?
