It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas

So here's today's date:

And here's what I wore today:

Aaand the view in our living room:

Oh, and here's why:

In case you can't read that - yep, that's my car's thermometer reading 79 degrees F. As I write this, I am sitting on our porch, eating ice cream, drinking some ice water...and I'm still warm. (Who am I kidding - even if it was snowing outside I'd probably still be having ice cream.) Well, I guess this is one of the great things about living in the south! The low temperatures for the next week may eventually dip down into the 40s.
Remind me again, then, why I'm leaving this to go back to the cold of the midwest? Grandma and I are going to have to commisserate and bundle up together against that Missouri cold!