Yes, I know. It’s been too long since I gave you faithful readers an update on the saga of “House Hunters”, where people looking to buy a house, and which gets more and more bizarre as time goes by. A recent trend has been to “get away from it all.” It’s a new, truly disturbing twist on what is frequently referred to as work-life balance. I wasn’t really sure how some of these folks could get to this point, but they have.
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Keeping a Sunny Outlook
Yes, I know. We’re into the “bleak mid-winter”. I step out the door, and my nose and hands immediately yell at me, “Quick – get back inside”. The weather is alternating a few hours of sun, followed by clouds, then periods of snow or freezing rain. The wind comes up and rattles the windows. The Super Bowl is coming up, and our beloved Patriots didn’t even make the playoffs. Nothing new really in Red Sox nation either, although it will pick up and we just know that they’ll be a contender next year. My gardens are covered in snow, but I know that underneath all that dormancy, there is beauty just waiting patiently for the warm weather to come back. The election cycle and the primaries are heating up, but I just know that the country will come to its senses and elect someone I like. Or at least one that I don’t think will be in jail by November.
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