This winter has been much more "interesting" than last! To begin with, I turned 60. I'm excited to be on more "senior discount" lists than before. Other than that, it's just a number (I'm convincing myself.) Charles and Paul visited for the weekend from the other Portland. Annelle surprised me with a limo for dinner out on the town that Saturday! Jane, Drew, Chas, Paul, Annelle and I were driven around the sites at night and dropped at Grace, a church-turned-restaurant, where we had a great dinner and visit. Then the two of us had another lovely dinner at Walter's and a night at the Portland Hilton Garden (love those reward points) overlooking the bay on my actual birthday. That followed an afternoon at the spa getting massaged. I took the whole week off!! So even though I didn't get to Georgia, it was a great birthday.
Snow. We've had lots of it. And on several more occasions than last year. I'm sure you all heard the news about the Blizzard of 2013. It was an experience. We had 30 inches of snow between Friday and Saturday (Feb 8-9). I got home from work Friday and cleared around 8 inches off the deck so it wouldn't be so bad later. We never left the house on Saturday but watched the mega snow and wind roll around in the marsh. There was so much wind there were parts of the yard with 4 foot drifts and parts where we could see grass. Sunday we went out to shovel and rake the roof. The front of the house had snow up to the middle of the upstairs windows from the roof of the front porch. The back roof was almost bare of snow. Mainers were complaining much like Georgians complain in the middle of summer about the heat. Kind of funny.
The nice thing about snow this year is that we've gotten to do some snowshoeing. Our neighborhood has trails that are great. I also went with a group from work to a park with great trails for snowshoeing as well as groomed trails for cross country skiing. That's my next project- renting gear to see if I like it. It's also part of my new-experience-every-month 60th year (thanks for the idea, Chas & Paul.)
Miss y'all.
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