Staying Until Monday

I decided to stay.  The weather is mostly rain (with a little break in the afternoon) and snow in the morning, but warming and clearing by noon.

If I leave today, I'll feel rushed and I'm going home to the same weather.  So I'm here for another day.

Yesterday was a decent day.  Furnace is fixed -- nothing wrong with either furnace, but the Nest needed to be restarted for the main unit.  It's working fine now.  This was the furnace maintenance as well.  The units are 20 years old so we are regular with servicing them.

While HVAC was here, I booked excursions for Spain.  I'm getting excited now.  Only one day trip to be scheduled (Montserrat) and I'll do that with hubby this week.  He books travel (train and cable car) and I book the rest so we'll do it in tandem -- the logistics get a little complicated.  We went 8 years ago, but had to cut the day short because of my son's leg/back issues -- we missed the best part ... hiking the cave and mountain.

After he finished, I ran to 2 stores -- consignment and thrift.  I got an old clay pot at the consignment and nothing at the thrift store.  Turns out it's close to the coffee shop I wanted to visit again so I walked from the store to the shop -- parking at the coffee house was crazy.  It was a mile roundtrip.  The coffee isn't as good as I remember (I wonder if mocha got added last time).  It was fine and I bought a bag of decaf beans, but nothing like the first time.

Stopped for a vegan lunch with some extras for today.  I might make a stop this afternoon for another "weekend oatmeal" -- it was the best I've ever had ... fruit, nuts, spice.  Yum.  Good enough to call it a dessert.  I hope they still have it!

I wanted to take a mountain walk -- the afternoon weather was beautiful, but my back was feeling the feels.  I can't push it so I sat on the heating pad and read (I'll finish the book today).

I'm not sure what's on the agenda for today.  Keeping it slow and doing WHATEVER I want to do.  Maybe Peloton, maybe a walk during if the rain takes a break, maybe more oatmeal (yes!!), maybe a stop at another vintage store (probably not).  Some reading, some cleaning and that'll round out the stay.

I'm ready to go home.  I feel a little limited this trip with the weather and my back and my toe issue.  Glad we got the HVAC situation taken care of though -- that's the reason I came.  

Hope your weekend is going well.  Later gators.