Checked the weather for Monterey yesterday... 68 and sunny all week. Today I sit in our new house looking out my front window at 8 inches of snow, and a overcast 24 degree atmosphere. It's alright though. The cold is exhausting (especially when you work 40 hrs a week in it) but it has its dynamics. One day it was 11, the next it was 36, talk about heat wave. Seriously, it was exciting to have that 36 degree day. Maybe it is just my pioneer spirit, but I find the 11 degree days exciting too. They make me daydream like a kid. I passively imagine myself as an arctic explorer, or just as a person fighting for survival. Having grown up in the mediterreain climate of the suburbs, (going from one climate controlled building to the next) extremities tend excite me... (Well, I had a lucky upbringing of being in a neighborhood that was surrounded by miles of wilderness and open fields)
Anyways, things are falling in here at the Farmer estate. I don't have much time to expound, but I can give you the broad picture. We have settled in the rough and tumble wilderness community known to many as Westport. 10 minutes from downtown KCMO, 3 blks to the plaza and 3 blocks to downtown westport. We find ourselves dreaming of days when we will debate which shoes to wear on our walks to the grocery store, etc. Our large 2 bedroom house is well over a century old and full of nicks and scratches which attest to its multi-generational history. Jessica has pretty much completed its decoration and I have been working to better insulate its drafty old windows.
Alrighty, gotta run. Headed to Lawrence today to have coffee with some of my adopted family. I'll update more later.
