December and 66*...we'll pay for this in August

[marathoner452]

I feel the need to share more positive New Orleans moments, like the neighborhood kids running the first couple blocks with me yesterday and celebrating the end of hurricane season with a cafe au lait praline from the farmer's market and a hot cafe au lait at Sound Cafe.  I missed the food co-op meeting 'cause I was thrift store shopping for professional work clothes.  I start Monday if the principal mailed the paperwork to RSD.

There are Christmas lights on the shotgun houses and the palm trees.  Farms in North Carolina ship us our Christmas trees.  Being from the chilly not-so-far-North, it's strange to be getting ready for Christmas when it feels like spring.  Most of my Christmas shopping is done, small local gifts since it all has to fit in my luggage on the 23rd, nothing from the mall.

Right now I'm wearing shorts and looking forward to tomorrow afternoon's Saints game.  I even have a Saints santa hat.

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[marathoner452.livejournal.com]

We should enjoy it while we've got it-after tomorrow it's supposed to get cold again, that meaning highs in the 60s and lows around 50.

In Maryland right now it is 38* and tomorrow my family will be enjoying a nice rain/ice mix. I will be calling home tomorrow to remind them of this, and they can return the favor next summer. :-)