November seems like a long time ago. Forgive me for not being consistent with this! No apologies, however. I have been busy living the wonder of this life with the ones I love .

Christmas passed peacefully and with deep thankfulness for the coming of the Savior into the world to save sinners like I. January began, with a new year and new beginnings, which really do not seem all that different than what was progressing the day before, the last day of 2009.

But this New Year has brought more and heavier snows, which I personally have enjoyed very much. And February was maked by the continuation of this trend, and the snow on the ground lingered on and on due to the consistently lower temperatures. This is a winter that will, because of it, be well remembered as the one when the heavier snows returned to earth, all by a providentially motivated Creator!

But February was marked by another occurence which brought much pleasure and adventure into our lives. Mary Lee and I were finally able to take a long anticipated trip to Florida. And our departure on the sixth of the month was inadvertently timed to happen the day before the deepest snowfall of the winter.

Good timing, huh? We thought so and went rejoicingly on our way south, stopping over for a couple nights with Mary Lee's Aunt and Uncle, Colena and Lonnie Richardson. We had been wanting to do this for some time and enjoyed it immensely. Lonnie, being a theologin at heart and a pastor by practice, now retired, and I had some very stimulating discussions on matters in the spiritual realm. I might add that what made this even more stimulating was the fact we so seldom agreed on the things we discussed. But I was never really sure if he were not just taking opposing views just for the sake of, not just argument, but to make it more interesting.

We traveled on southward where we drove back and forth and up and down in Florida, visiting relatives and beloved friends and spending two occasions of several days with our daughter and her husband, Alethea and Charlie Adkins. What surprised us and somewhat diappointed us about this trip was how cool and sometimes downright cold the weather was. It was said by every single resident we met that this was most unusal and was indeed one of the coldest winters in Florida in recent memory.

But this had no cooling effect upon our enjoyment of our trip, which was probably the most enjoyable of all we have experienced to Florida.