Day 20, Saturday, February 09, 2013, a.m.

Day 20, Saturday, February 09, 2013, a.m.

Postings and photos from back home make me very glad that I’m in Florida. Dealing with a bad snowstorm when living alone is not something I care to deal with. One purpose of this trip is to help me figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life… or at least with the next couple years. The thought of winter no longer excites me. Yes, the snow is beautiful and creates gorgeous landscapes, but shoveling and snow blowing are parts of the winter I no longer can physically handle which means I need to pay to have those jobs done.

Then there’s the cold. I get hot easily and run a fan in my bedroom almost all winter, but when it comes to dealing with the temperatures below 35 degrees, I just don’t want to do it anymore. I’ll chalk this up to getting old.

I never thought that I’d want to split my time between north and south, but now that I am south for part of the winter, this is exactly what I want to do. Now I just have to figure out how to make this happen every year which means I should sell my house. I don’t need such a big place anyway.

I am a basket case when dealing with real estate and legalities. It’s like my brain goes on overload and I short circuit, snap, and freak out. Nobody wants to be around me in these cases. I am not a calm, reasonable person when dealing with these kinds of things.

So, how do I do it? Where do I go? My sons would like to see me get a condo and I’d be agreeable to that if I could find one where there would be quiet and I could have bird feeders. I love the area where I live and I love my job with the paper, so I prefer to stay in the district. I’d love to be in a place where I wouldn’t have to take care of ground maintenance.

Is it reasonable to hope that I could sell my big house and be able to get two smaller places? One in the Kearsarge/Sunapee area and one in South Carolina or northern Florida would be nice. If I had a solid place to go to in the winter, I could bring kitty with me.

And so, these are my thoughts this morning before I buckle down to some work. I have my ITR work to finish up for the week and I still have photos to post and more to import, edit and post. Gail is waiting for me to free up time so we can go do something. Time to do laundry.