Greetings to all!

23. September 2008 by Kathy.

My very first post on my very first blog! I thought it would be a good time to join the rest of the world. I plan to write about our move to Florida, knitting and other creative pursuits, weight loss, and anything else that enters my head! Please bear with me as I work my way through the world of blogging.

We’ve been packing, throwing out, making trips to Goodwill, (to donate stuff that we don’t need, that we haven’t used for years!) and making multiple trips to the ABC store to pick up boxes. I believe I said after our last big move (the one to our current address, not the ones to/from and within DC) that I was not moving again. I’ve learned never to say never.

I’m facing this move to Florida with very mixed emotions. I’ve been in Charlotte over thirty years; I feel at home here, I know lots of people, my son and DIL live five miles away, I’m proud of the progress this city has made over the years.  We’re moving to an area of Florida that is almost a frontier. The town “center” was built only a couple of years ago. There aren’t the plethora of restaurants that I’m used to, and none of the good ones are very near us. I’ll miss the best grocery chain in the world, Harris Teeter.  Publix is nice, but will take some getting used to. The nearest Starbucks is five miles away…and it is either inside Target or inside the Mall. No Brueggers, Manhattan or Einstein Bagel stores. And of course, my precious friends - we’ve been together so long now that we know without speaking what the other is feeling.

But what there is - the beach is twenty minutes away,  our neighborhood is lovely, we have a caged pool and a large lanai, J and J live four houses away, we’ve already met many people, there are so many activities to be involved in. Cara loves to visit me there! And of course the weather - it is no hotter there in the summer than here in Charlotte, but the big plus is the winter weather. We can throw open the triple doors, and our living space merges with the lanai.

I don’t know whether I’m trying to justify our move, or make myself feel better!

The story will continue…

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