Brrrrrrr
Meet Quickfoot
This little knome (Quickfoot) had welcomed friends and other visitors to our home in Stoddard. When we made the decision to sell our home and 99.9% of our belongings to start our new adventure of living Full-Time in our new home (Tininthewind), we knew that Quickfoot had to come with us. Each night he would be posted outside our door to welcome new friends and new visitors to our new home. He has done a steller job since we moved in to the Tininthewind in July of '06, but I have to tell ya, he is not a happy camper. (no pun intended)
He heard us talking many times back in the early summer '06 about our new life plan of chasing that perpetual perfect temperature. He heard us time and again refer to that margarita on the beach while chomping on fresh shrimp just brought in on the boat. I know he watched as we hauled all of our cold weather clothes to the Salvation Army shelter. He saw all of those lounge chairs and beach umbrellas that we stuffed in the basement of the Tininthewind. I swear during all of this time that we were getting the motor home ready to go, Quickfoot was watching and had a perpetual smile on his face. I know he was thinking that no more would he have to stand watch during that cold, harsh, Wisconsin winter.
Is it any wonder then that as the temperatures of the last week or so plunged to the sub-zero range and stayed there, Quickfoot would quit working by turning out the light in his lantern. I removed him from the snow bank to bring him inside so I could replace his batteries, and after warming up a little he started to work again. He is now inside, sitting on the dash, facing out the big front window of Tininthewind and I think that is where he will stay 'till all those beaches, shrimp, and perfect temperatures are in sight!
Oh, I did set a margarita down next to him, and swear I saw a smile just before it disappeared. 
