Here’s a photo from our backyard a few nights ago:
I OFTEN wonder why we choose to live in Illinois. The weather is either too hot/humid or too cold with very few in-between days. It’s either too wet or too dry, and rarely just right. Storms cause damage to our trees and barns on what seems like a monthly schedule. I’m down on Illinois so I think I need to take stock of what is good and make a list of why we live here. Here goes:
- Reason #1) The sky is pretty.
- Reason #2) Family & Friends live here.
- Reason #3) See Reason #2.
I’m spent. That’s all I’ve got.
Plain and simple (speaking of Illinois!), we live here because the folks we care about live here. Well, mostly. There’s a few rogues living in other parts of the country and the world, but we all know they WISH they lived near us.
Boy oh boy, do I wish we could just up and move ourselves and EVERYONE we care about to a more excellent location. Colorado is my personal choice. Healthy, beautiful, clean-living, 300 days of sunshine a year… Illinois, let’s be honest, you can’t hold a candle to Colorado.
I know this fantasy isn’t going to take place. I guess we’ll just continue to admire the pretty clouds and stifling humidity amongst friends.
And, who am I kidding anyway. Magoo hates it when we change ANYTHING around the house. If we were to actually talk of moving to another state she would vault into spastic flails of despair. I changed out a broken doorknob on the garage door a few days ago. It’s been dented and rusty since we moved into the house ten years ago. Oh, and it would only turn one way, and often not latch. And, we had no key to it, thus could not lock it. The thing finally kicked the bucket a few days ago and refused to turn at all. I spent $18.76 and ten minutes replacing it with a lovely brushed nickel replacement that turns and locks and everything!
Magoo was not pleased. She misses the old doorknob.
Who am I kidding. Illinois, you’re stuck with us.
