This is a picture of the front piece of our property. Kind of looks like a Christmas card, doesn’t it?

We’ve had snow on the ground for the last week, and another snowstorm hit this morning. Paul is working from home…the weatherman says it will turn to rain by this afternoon. We really hope it does since we have to pick up Paul’s daughter at the airport this afternoon. It hardly seems possible that we could be hoping for rain!

Both Paul and I have lived in the Northwest most of our adult lives and we can never remember a winter like this. We have had either torrential rain, windstorms where we lost power for days, or snow.

All of you down in Mexico can smile to yourselves that you’re missing this kind of mess! The occasional volcanic eruption or hurricane are the kind of weather problems I will gladly trade for this cold!

We have been blogging here at the Countdown to Mexico since last October. Not very long, really, considering the Mexico dream has been a part of our world for much, much longer.

Why are we doing this? Mainly in the hope of meeting other like-minded people (which we have) and also to document our thought process as we progress towards our goal.

It is interesting to me how similar Paul and I are…often we are both thinking about blogging about the same topic – and usually lively conversations ensue that really help us in fine-tuning our plans.

In the last week or so we have been written up on both Living without Borders and Billie’s Blog and were added to both Brenda & Roy’s and Dropped In’s blog rolls. Thanks, all of you, both for reading and for the feedback.

It is great to have become a part of the community of thoughtful, adventurous people who are about to move or have already made the move to such a wonderful place.

We’d like to encourage any of you who are in the mood to comment to do so. We really appreciate your input! If you’d prefer to send an email, please follow the link to the right and communicate directly.