A little bit of warm, sunny weather

We spent the week in Florida enjoying some warm temperatures, the rolling surf, and sunshine (that's me at Randy's Seafood enjoying fish tacos and Jo below enjoying the selection of desserts at the hotel).  Even though the temperatures were somewhat mild, only in the mid-60's to low 70's, it was significantly warmer than home and there weren't piles of snow everywhere.  We were in Florida so Jo could attend a mix of HR association meetings and Northwestern Mutual meetings.  While I needed to attend a few of these, I got significantly more time in the sun and surf than Jo - good for me, sad for her.  We were in Naples at the beginning of the week and then Orlando at the end.  We did get a little time to walk around downtown Naples and we both agreed it is a lovely little town and could see why people would want to live there - especially during the winter.

Our other big news, which kept us pretty stressed for the last two weeks including our week in the sun, is that we have reached an agreement to sell our Madison house.  We had a realtor send a form letter asking if anyone was interested in selling in the location of our house and we decided why not try.  To make a long story short, after multiple negotiations and some heated discussions between Jo and I we came to what appears to be a workable agreement for all parties.  We have a few more details to work out, like the home inspection, but if all goes well we will be back to only owning one house.  There is a certain sadness on our part since we had a lot of fun planning the Madison house, but we had also realized that given the limitations on modifications to the house due to the historic district and what we really want in a home that it just wasn't going to work with the footprint of the house.  Hopefully the new couple will have a lot of fun in it.

Not much other news, we spent Sunday, after getting back from Florida, watching the Big Ten basketball finals and were sad to see our Badgers fall short.  But both Wisconsin and Illinois made it into the NCAA tournament so we should get to see a little more of our two teams (hopefully, both can make it past the first round).