A Season for Everything

Nor a freak snowstorm was going to keep me from going away for the weekend, but Mother Nature sure did try. We woke up at 7:00 Saturday morning to very cold temperatures and snow flurries. By the time we left home at 9:00, the snow was creating a virtual white-out and we had 4 inches on the ground. It was rough driving at first but the further east we went, the better the weather got. By the time we had gone up the mountains and come down the other side, the sun was shining and there wasn’t so much as one flake in sight. We actually ran the car through a car wash to get all the crud off.

Weather aside, we had a good time. Going down we had a late breakfast at Bob Evans in Breezewood, officially known as “The City of Motels,” stopped at a big Harley-Davidson shop in Chambersburg-our friends have a bike and Tim wants one-and stopped at a couple of little shops. We checked into the hotel early enough to relax a little and get ready for the shrimp fest. The food was good, the company fun, but we didn’t win on any of the tickets we bought. We joked that we were saving our luck for the Power Ball drawing, but apparently we’re saving it for something else I don’t know about. Yesterday we stopped at Battlefield Harley-Davidson in Gettysburg and then hit a lot of the antique shops on the way home (do you have any idea how many there are along U.S. Rt. 30?). We stopped at a buffalo farm too. We were going to buy meat, but holy cow (no pun intended), is that stuff expensive! We settled for a couple pieces of jerkey and I bought Tim a silver money clip with a very nice raised buffalo on it. He bought me a turquoise ring.

Megan and I have just been hanging out together today, enjoying our day off. We were at Fashion Bug as soon as it opened for their big Presidents’ Day sale. All regular price items were 40% off and clearance sale items were an additional 20% off. Meg found a cute shirt, pajamas and a necklace. I’m kind of leary of putting much money into clothes right now. I want to lose weight. I’m trying to lose weight. Buying a bunch of clothes right now kind of seemed like setting myself up to fail, though I did consider buying a swimsuit in a size much too small as incentive, but it was still kind of expensive after the discount so I passed, reasoning that it was a lot to spend on something I might not get my butt into (undermining myself??). Anyway, I did find a cute shirt and a new pair of Sketchers. Then we hit Wal-Mart for groceries. Lots and lots of groceries. I hate grocery shopping so I tend to put it off until I have to go….and then it’s a really huge chore. Meg had some money so abandoned me in favor of her own commercialism. She bought a big yellow bean bag with a smiley face on it and a John Deere computer game. She is a country girl at heart so a game that allows you to plan, build and manage a farm sounded waaaayyy cool to her. I admit I might have to give it a try, too.

So, that was our weekend. Nothing much else going on around here, though I think maybe I’m progressing (mentally at least) in my midlife crisis, but that’s another thought for another day.