I dunno. It could be me, but I'm feeling something, or some optimism with the Night Shift 6z GFS tonight.... I can almost see it unfolding.

Have you ever been? A very extensive park system, puts other cities to shame. One of the cleanest cities in America. One of the friendliest cities as well. Not to mention it's so much easier to get in and see a doctor than other areas I wouldn't live there because I need mountains, but people who do live there say it's the best place they've ever lived.

Yeah I think we have talked on this before, good chance your family knows my wife's family, they are up in the Hall/Drummond area. I have helped run cattle through the canyon north of P-burg....in late November. That's the trip I figured out what real cold was. They homesteaded the land there, own about 5,000 acres and lease another 5,000. The core of the ranch house is the original 2 room cabin that was built when they landed there. Folks there are a little stand-offish to outsiders, but once they figure out you are tied to the valley, they will talk your ear off. That's really the only difference from the rural south, where they will talk your ear off regardless. Up here, for a while it didn't bother me, and I organically got my social interactions through work, but now that I work from home, I don't get that opportunity and I am really starting to feel it. My mom came out here for a visit several years ago, and when we passed someone on the sidewalk, she looked at them in the eye and said "hello, how are you today" in her very pleasant southern accent. He stopped short, he got this confused look on his face then scurried off. It was a middle aged professional looking dude. I had to educate my mom that out here, we make the briefest of eye contact, maybe a slight smile and a nod hello, but that's about as far as it goes LOL!

Oh...... but I don't blame him it sounds like it has worked out very well.

I know. That's why I'm so worried for him.