I could complain about Calfornia's financial climate (dismal), or it's political environment (abysmal), but the weather? Come on!
Everyone who knows me knows that I am a Utah girl at heart. Go ahead, scoff, but my soul floats somewhere over Winnemucca, never knowing whether to go east or west. I'm homesick for my mountains and I can't get over it.
Our plan was for David to do his residency in Pathology in San Francisco and go back to Utah to set up practice but . . . .
Years ago my dad said "Don't tell me you want to move back here to 'happy valley' because there is no 'happy valley' He knew that happiness can be wherever you are and it is true. We have had a bountiful life here. Our children have grown up healthy, strong in the gospel and if you ask them, they would say they are Californians at heart. Zion is wherever you are. But their mom feels like a salmon swimming upstream, forever trying to get back home.
My secret plan is to get a motorcycle saying that it is an important part of our emergency preparedness. I'll say that it will be easier to get out if we are told to evacuate. But if that time comes, I'll tell my neighbors that they are welcome to my food storage and then I'll light out over the Sierras. Of course, David is welcome if he wants to come.
Do you think I will get away with it? In truth, I will stay here doing what I am supposed to.
Oh well, I can dream.
The weather is just as unpredictable here – two weeks ago it was 76 on Monday and then it snowed on Wednesday. It got warm again and then snowed a little on Sunday, but thank heaven it didn't stick.
ReplyDeleteIt seems the two of us would rather be where the other is . . . but I'd take being in the same place with you over swapping.