along the journey

Cold temps gave way to a beautiful noontime today, with a strong breeze from the southwest warming up the temps to about 75. My mom and dad woke up to snow and ice in Cowpens, SC, today. We also heard from Joann in Arkansas, who called last night to wish Cindy a happy birthday. They were enduring the cold and snowy conditions earlier this week. Meanwhile down here in Florida, we are wondering what has happened to "Old Man Winter." We finally had our first freeze Monday morning, but the hard freeze that we were supposed to have Tuesday morning did not occur(no surprise here.) It was about 33 degrees at 7 AM. We have an old saying in Jax - "if you don't like the weather right now, just wait a few hours and it will change." As I write this we are now under a tornado watch until 1AM Friday. Driving home from work in a thunderstorm in February just does not seem right!