Dan the man

Having enjoyed our first winter in the mountains we soon realized how cold it gets here and with neither of us working cabin fever was quickly becoming a reality. I love and adore my wife and I know she loves me more, but when they say too much of a good thing is no good they’re not lying. After the holidays the days just fell into a bad routine mostly for my wife as she isn’t as physically active as I am. No matter what the weather I was doing my morning walks rain or shine, cool or cold I was plodding along and happy to do so. When I got home cleaned up and made a little something to eat the rest of the day was nearly unbearable. My wife got a call from a friend who owns a restaurant in Florida where we used to live and asked if she would be willing to work a few weeks, she jumped at the opportunity to do something other than sitting around the house and she wants to make money. So with just a couple of days notice I went to the post office to hold our mail because we’re coming into tax season and all the important documents will be showing up in the mail I needed to be sure they were going to take care of it. This isn’t some big city or even a small town this is a little town that pretty much shuts down for the winter except for the ski resort very few businesses are open, that’s one of the reasons we moved here. Everybody knows one another but minds their own business. They know me at the post office because I had been there a half dozen times before and developed a good relationship with all three of the people that work there. They even said they would keep an eye on our house for me. Watching out for each other, that is such a lost behavior I was almost taken aback by it. This is the kind of life I grew up in, before the internet and all the technology showed up it was people taking care of each other just because you could. Now as I write this I’m sitting with a dear friend who we came to visit while we’re in Florida and before we start working, and are basking in the kindness they have extended to us as we have done for them when they came to the mountains to see us.