Hello,
Leroy and I came home from MN
yesterday afternoon. I had washed the sheets, but not made the bed before we
left. It was quite pleasant to finish that task and slide into our own bed at
night. We both slept well through the familiarity. There is just something
about home that is so appealing to me. I understand the words home body. I am
happy to visit, but happy to come home where I do not need to think so much
about where I will sit or what I will do.
Our trip north was not as easy as the
trip home. We started in rain with temperatures getting close to the freezing
mark. It was nice to see the outside temperature above freezing as first as we
were driving. About an hour from the start I noticed ice hanging on the signs and
after a bit I could see it on the rear view mirrors. The road surface remained
wet and sloppy even after the windshield wipers were starting to get coated
with ice. Perhaps that salt stuff had been put on the road surface. About
another hour later the temperatures dropped enough that it was snowing rather
than raining. Leroy was driving by this time. It was almost a relief to see the
snow. However as we continued north the snow increased or maybe it was just
that the wind was strongly picking up snow that had already fallen. Sometimes it
was a bit hard to see others. The road surface had a lot of packed down
snow/ice on it so that it was quite lumpy to drive over it with perhaps a path
where other tires had been.
About an hour south of the cities the
snow disappeared. We were happy. On the GPS we had been watching our estimated
time of arrival getting later as we were forced to drive slower, but once there
was no snow it mostly remained steady. We called Brian to let him know when we
were getting close. Nice how all the technology works for us; GPS,
thermometers, and phones. How did we travel back in the old days?
Paula
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