After selling our place in Tequesta, we decided to see if my folks would like to move into a place that the four of us could share. Shockingly, they said yes. We put their Jupiter home up for sale and purchased a home in Titusville, in a RV park. We now have a place to stop at between jobs and traveling. The great bonus is, Mom and Ralph are there too!
My brother and his family helped with the move. My little brother is one tough guy!
He has metastatic bladder and prostate cancer. He has been able to see his grandchildren be born, his son beat addiction, his daughter become a doctor. His other son accepted to Carnegie Mellon and his other daughter become the most empathetic animal care therapist ever! I hope he stays on the right side of the grass a lot longer.
After spending all my finances on another house, and not working for four months. I had to get back to work.
This nice guy named Adrian called me, told me about a great opportunity he had for me in a beautiful small town in Missouri, and I said yes, that sounds great! So off I went.
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Where else would a warm weather loving gal go, in the middle of the winter... I may not have been thinking clearly. It was really, really cold when I arrived. I drove around a parking lot, filled with snow and ice, just to be sure I could control the rental car. Yea Ford Fusion, two thumbs up on all wheel drive and heated seats!
I woke up in my hotel, the next morning, hearing strange sounds outside my window. It sounded like, olympic skaters were trying to grind to a stop in front of my hotel.
I peered through the drapes and saw people, trying to scrape thick layers of ice off their cars.
I wondered if my rental came with an ice scraper.
It didn't matter, I couldn't break open the doors.
It surprised me that the ice didn't melt during the day. I had forgotten how cold, cold can be.
I went down to the waterfront a few weeks after arriving. I was waiting for the sun to come out. Finally! A beautiful, sunny day! It was still cold, so I wrapped up in my down coat, and walked along the Mississippi river.
Cape Girardeau has a flood wall along the river. It has murals painted on it depicting the history of this area.
This is a wonderful small town. The downtown main street is charming.
Southeast Hospital is where I am working.
The folks here are so wonderful. There is an amazing sense of community. I can see why they return to raise their own family here in Cape.
It is finally spring here in Cape Girardeau. I would have more photos but Noah won't open the windows on the ark. They say it may stop raining soon.
It is supposed to warm up soon!
With Love, from Cape Girardeau!
2 comments:
Glad your doing well, Mary and I were talking about you last week. Think of you often, always remembering the good old days.
I miss you all, but I'm loving the adventure!
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