Magnolia Gardens

Our days have begun to be more Charleston like. Warmer temperatures and sunshine and flowers and trees beginning to bud. So I took the day "off" yesterday to meet my friend Debbie at Magnolia Gardens. I truely had a "Murphy's law" day including dropping my good camera and messing up the lens but still enjoyed the glory of the day. Magnolia Plantation and Gardens are my favorite here in Charleston. Debbie and I walked the area for about 2 wonderful hours. The pictures I am sharing were taken with my point and shoot but seem to have come out nicely just the same. I am sharing photos of herons, ibises, a Coopers Hawk that we came upon and a golden pheasant that is with the small zoo they have there.

And Tom was in cloudy, cool Arizona going to open houses. (Sorry Tom!)

Snow in Hendersonville!

I have not even had a minute to post anything since the last time. We have all been working on getting my mom moved to Hendersonville, North Carolina. She will now be living there year round rather than here in Mount Pleasant and up there. (I miss her already!) We all worked endlessly getting her up there and trying to combine two houses into one. The job is still not complete. She still has a LOT of boxes to go. I was supposed to return to Charleston on Wednesday but felt I could not leave my mom with so much to do. I still felt bad leaving her yesterday with so much work ahead. Our very wonderful treat for my sister Dianne and I was that we got this very beautiful 7 inches of snow while we were there. We went out to run errands and could not resist taking a bit of a break to take some photos around Hendersonville. We were giddy with excitement and felt this was our reward from God! So I am sharing some photos from around Hendersonville as well as my mom's house and her back yard in the snow. Enjoy...with a little shiver from the cold!

Mom's BD

Tom has gone back to Tucson. He is loving his new job so far! He is going to go to the Accenture golf tournament this weekend. One of our friends here has a brother out there that she hooked Tom up with and he was kind enough to give him tickets for this weekend! He is also lined up to do some house hunting for us.

We did not come to terms for a contract on our house with our offer. It was a young couple and we believe they did not really have the money for this house. They were getting a 100% loan which I was hoping was not possible anymore. But we are still hopeful for someone else to love our house enough to give us a good offer. All of our feedback has been very positive. We had an agents caravan on Wednesday and they were all very positive about it.

Yesterday was my mom's 86th birthday!! She is just incredible! She does NOT seem 86! We celebrated Wednesday night since my sister was leaving for Washington yesterday. We went to eat at Sullivan's, a local seafood restaurant, and then had cake and gifts at her house. I had her over for supper last night. It was nice for just the two of us to have that time together. My sister Dianne is on her way from Orlando today to help my mom with moving. She and her husband will stay with me this weekend. My brother and his wife are also coming and staying at my mom's house. She closes on Feb. 26 so we will all be headed to Hendersonville, NC then to help my mom.

And we have had a wonderful time with my little nephews here!

So life is continuing on that crazy busy path for the time being...

Happy Valentine's Day!

I am so happy I got the chance to spend Valentine's with my sweetie! What a nice weekend it has been. We would have never thought we would be living a part a few months ago! Just goes to show you one never knows what life will bring! We should all enjoy our moments with our loved ones for you never know when things will change!

We have such a nice weekend but it has really sped by! First of all, the beautiful snow! What fun we had with that. We played in it as it was snowing and Saturday morning we went walking around Palmetto Park. After that we went and built a snowman with our nephew. That was followed by sliding down some local oysters. That is where we were when we got a call from our realtor with an offer on our house! We are glad but the offer is not that great so we shall see what happens with our counter. But we had 3 more showings after that and got feedback that someone else may be interested in making an offer! So we shall see. I do not worry as I am a strong believer that things like this work out how they are supposed to!

Today Tom made me breakfast which was really nice. Then we had our family over for a much belated birthday party for our nephew. That was a lot of fun too.

So it was a great weekend but, alas it ends tomorrow. I really hate to see Tom go but hopefully with all of our house activity I will be joining him soon.

TOM IS HERE!

Tom got in last night- FINALLY!!! I worked downtown at The Charleston Artist Guild Gallery (very slow day!) and then went to supper club for the first time stag, and wanted to go to pick up Tom from his flight about 10:30. He had to fly to Atlanta (as everyone knows -there are no direct flights to & from Charleston!) and called me upon landing. He said the plane hit wind shears coming in and tilted to one side upon landing! That would be enough for me to say I think I would drive from there! He got a bite to eat and boarded the plane. He called to let me know they were boarded and getting ready to take off. About 15 minutes later he called again (I'm thinking I should not be getting a call from Tom at this point!) and said they had not taken off yet because the pilot had not arrived but that he was in the terminal somewhere. Well, I am thinking I hope that location is not the lounge! About another 20 minutes and Tom calls again and says still no pilot! Whatever pilot they were looking for sure seemed lost! Nonetheless, when he called me and it was approaching an hour I told him I believe there is a new law that the airlines can no longer leave you on longer than an hour on the ground. (Does anyone know if this true?) Well, shortly after he calls and says they let them "unboard". And Tom did not want his flight to be cancelled due to the weather problems possible today! Anyway, eventually they got a pilot and Tom took a cab home (since it was so late!) and got here about 12:30am. He says it feels really good to be back!
And then they are predicting 1-3 inches of snow here this evening. We both so hope it happens. We are both like kids about the snow! And our nephews are in town who are the joys of our life. I am so glad Tom gets a chance to see them while he is here.
I hope I will be posting snow photos tomorrow....

Good News!

The beginning of a new week with the Dalys living in Eastern Standard Time vs. Mountain Standard Time. Some good news though. First, Tom's trip to Camden , Arkansas got canceled. And the really good thing is that Tom will be coming home for a few days on Thursday night. He will be returning on Monday-just enough days to get his time clock all screwed up again! So it will be really nice to have him here. And our little nephews are coming this weekend too so a lot of exciting things in a few days! Thursday night I go to our supper club for probably the last time for me and my mom too. It's too bad Tom won't be in early enough to come to that too. He hardly had a chance to tell many people goodbye before he left. Anyway, we 're looking forward to spending time together, with our families(especially the little members) and Valentine's Day together.

Super Sunday

Tom and I finally got to watch something together-at the same time-in different time zones! The Super Bowl! He said it was actually nice having it come on at 4:00 just like regular football season. And it was a great game, wasn't it? I was rooting for the Saints so I am glad they one. And there really wasn't any "dirty" football- just good ole football. And the commercials were pretty fun. The only hard thing was that we would try to talk to each other on the phone throughout so we felt like we were watching it together but we didn't want to talk through the commercials or through the game! ( although it was usually during the game) But it was very nice just to be at home for the game and "watch" it with my hubby.

I wanted to go to a meeting that we had at Charleston Crafts yesterday afternoon to see everyone before I go but I was just exhausted and feeling not so hot with my tummy so I was not able to make it! I didn't even take my shower and get dressed until about 4 PM- which is VERY unusual for me! So I hope I get a chance to see more of my fellow gallery pals before I leave.