Bah, humbug on all these holidays and all this snow! Just give me my life back where things in town are open, the mail is delivered and I'm able to walk outside without fear of landing on my keister! Bah, humbug!
Having great dissatisfaction with our living situation (so what else is new?) I told spouse what I would do if left to my own devices: Buy a small condo in Los Alamos, downsize and get rid of lots of junk, fix up this house for sale and then travel around the southwest to pick a wintering place. We're not ready to leave LA yet because our daughter and grandson are here. We know that we're blessed to be part of their life right now.
Yet and still, I'm struck with a wanderlust of wanting to see new places and maybe get to know people there and one day relocate entirely. I told spouse that if daughter wanted to move to Florida, I'd agree to live there (in an oceanside condo). But otherwise, Florida is off my list of places to live. Spouse is pushing Tuscon but I'm not sure if that's my dream place either although its winter weather would be ideal! There is always Rio Rancho in Albuquerque. Spouse suggested Las Cruces but that's a bit far flung from the northern New Mexico land and people that we have come to love.
I also wondered aloud if we wouldn't mind winters here so much IF we had a 2 car garage, the whole house was heated (family room and laundry room are unheated), if the drain pipe in the laundry room didn't freeze and if we didn't have to shovel a driveway and sidewalks (condo, condo, condo!)
Now that I can't snowshoe, I don't need to live in snow country in the winter. The MRI of my right foot showed my posterior tibial tendon has a partial tear and a ganglion cyst. I'm kind of assuming that the ganglion cyst is causing the partial tear. There is not much change from the MRI of 2 years ago - the impacted area around the tendon is slightly larger. I see the Albuquerque podiatrist in January. I'll be interested in hearing what he proposes for my situation.
Yes, yes, I know I'm such an ingrate to kvetch about my house when some don't have a home.