Words I never thought I would hear out of the Woman's mouth!

The Woman loves the ocean. She will go out of her way, quite a bit actually, to be able to stroll on a beach, or watch a sunset over the water. I can’t blame her for her total fanaticism, but yesterday I heard words I never thought I would hear.

We still have a month on the Island, Colectiva nosed into the bay with a private patio to watch sunsets. Sadly, the daily temperatures here have routinely been half of normal. Instead of norms in the 60’s, our daily highs have routinely been in the 30’s. And we just experienced our second hard freeze for this winter, something we are told has never happened before.

Trapped in Colectiva by the cold we’ve gone a bit stir crazy. Yesterday having enough, I suggested to the Woman that we head out and find a couple of more obscure geocaches. So, we headed out to score some not too far away on the mainland. What we encountered when we got to ground zero was a frozen wonderland! Icicles were hanging from the bottom of highway signs. The tree the cache was hidden in was completely covered in ice, filling in all the gaps in the uneven bark. Unbelievable!

Each morning on the news, the weather forecasters beg with the Winter Texans not to pack up and leave, but its hard not to at least think about it with the temps in the Southwest being near normal. The Woman confided in me that for the first time in her life, she was seriously considering cutting her beach time short and heading West. We will see what happens.

Talk to you soon!