I like being warm!

We had a good fall in 2008. As we were packing up the house in Nipawin we commented several times how lucky we were to get such an open fall since we had to be in Saskatchewan so late in the year. By the time we headed east in December the weather was back closer to normal and it went downhill from there. Florida had an unusually cold winter - so cold in fact that we ate outdoors less than 10 times in the two months we were there and too cold for either of us to think seriously about doing any water activities. We had both my ski and Marilyn's board with us and I made it out to Lucky Lowe's one day but it was just too cold to think about going in the water. The day I was at Lucky's there were four die-hards visiting from Ontario and Quebec. They were skiing but it was painful to watch. I think the air temps were maybe into the 60's but the water was definitely still in the low 50's.

When we got to Texas and Arizona it was starting to warm up but it still was never "hot". Between wind blowing and sun not shining we never had a really warm day and nothing changed when we got back to Saskatchewan in May.

With all that cold behind us being part of the BC heat wave of 2009 isn't that hard to take. In fact its pretty sweet. Some little chickie on the TV just said that this heatwave is in the top 3 since they started keeping records for the lower mainland. They're all whining out here about how hot it is and how bad the air quality is and on and on and on. And I'm loving it.

Our AC isn't perfect. In fact it isn't even good. But it blows a bit of cooler air and helps out a bit during the day. We run the ceiling fan to blow some hot air outside and we spend the late afternoon in our outdoor living room. Our wonderful new awning provides shade for the curbside windows (and makes me want awnings on the roadside as well but that's a whole 'nuther story). Life is good here on the left coast but so far nobody has been by with our medical marijuana. Maybe that only comes once we establish residency - I still haven't mustered up enough courage to deal with the driver's licencing ordeal.