February in Wisconsin continues to be cold and snowy. The yard, house, roads remain heavily covered. But we can still remember Florida and keep planning trips to stay warm. We did get a weekend that was nice and made it to Milwaukee to go out to eat with my cousins and then had a family brunch with Mom to celebrate her birthday. She is doing great. And I think she enjoyed the company and getting to see everyone.

But the week has turned cold again, I can’t believe it. It will be close to zero tonight. but we have the weekend to look forward to. Chris and I will fly to Hilton Head for a long weekend with our friends Bev and Wally. We are looking forward to that! So there will be more pictures coming from warm South Carolina.

You know, it is hard to beleive you can be outside at 10pm in shorts and t shirts. The winter gets so long it is hard to remember last summer.  Life is good.   Even though today was cloudy it has been warm all day.   Had rain this evening, we went out to eat with Audrey and Jose and when we came out we could see the sliver of the moon.  Looks like Noel is getting hit with thunderstorms over in Fort Meyers but still good here.  But rain is OK as long as the temperature holds. 

Best of luck to Bryan and Beth as it sounds like Beth delivered their first child today.  Jo Ann should be back in Milwaukee by now.   Noel just could not go back to the cold, not sure I can.   We have new neighbors to the north, they are from about 80 miles north of Toronto.   Even at thier home it has not been as cold as Wisconsin!

So Claire should be here, I started taking wallpaper down in the second bathroom. She helped take the other bathroom down.  This one will take a little longer on my own.  I’ll work on it a little each time we are down.

A few pictures up in albums.  I know better but spent too much time in the sun one day.  Maybe my stomach will keep me warm when I get home!  

Jose is making supper tomorrow night, he has a plan to pick up some shrimp tomorrow.  And he will make something for Chris!

And we will enjoy our last full day in paradise.

Well, we finally made it!! after a delay we caught a plane out of Milwaukee Friday night and made our Atlanta connection to get to Fort Lauderdale.    We arrived around 11:30 pm.    And the temperature was 72 degrees when we landed.   Damn, was it good to be here!  Had a few things to do today.  Sunny in the morning and clouded up as the day went on.  But got out and bought a futon for the living room we had planned on.  Have some car issues but will work with that.  Put that in perspective by spending some time at the pool and cocktail hour with Al and  Vivian.  High season in Florida, the planes are all full.   And since it is probably -10 degrees at home and we have the doors open here and it is 78 degrees, I understand why.   The rain showers today were no big deal.  Tomorrow the neighbors bought us tickets to the brunch down at the club house.  So that will start the day, and then friends Noel and Jo Ann will get here sometime in the afternoon to spend some days with us.    Looking forward to more relaxing.  Wish you all were here, as Al says, “one more day in paradise”

Well no pictures today.  They all look the same, snowing.    At least brother Skip got the brunt of yesterday’s storm. We just had an inch or two while the 7″ and more looks like it was Milwaukee to Chicago.  But it seems like it just keeps coming.  It is snowing today again.  We were supposed to get a dusting to an inch, and we must have at least a couple of inches.   The roads are messy.  But is is around 30 which feels like spring.  So if it stops hopefully the roads will melt.  Although all of the towns up here seem to be saying they are running out of salt.  And they are trying to save it, so none on the roads.

So they are predicting the chance of something big Monday night or Tuesday.  We will hope that turns into nothing.  And more importantly that Wednesday night and Thursday are good.   We are flying out of Milwaukee Thursday morning for Florida.   I have been anxiously awaiting this week to come.  I will post some pictures when we get there.  I looked at the weather channell this morning and today and tomorrow will hit 80 degrees.  I am hoping that is the same next weekend!

So everyone have a good weekend.  I have not decided if I will watch the super bowl tomorrow.   Probably, but will wait for the time to come to decide.

-Randy