Friday Five: Home Is Where the Heart Is

Today's RevGalBlogPals Friday Five post is brought by Kathrynzj. Since we got off the Alaska Ferry in Bellingham this morning, I can finally participate in a Friday Five again!

The plan is to list five things I like about where I live now, Corpus Christi, Texas:

1. I've lived there longer than I have ever lived anywhere else in my life, since I grew up moving around with my dad in the Marine Corps. Counting three successive periods, I have lived there for 29 years.

2. I have many good friends who live in Corpus Christi.

3. I can hang clothes out on my clothesline almost every day.

4. The sun frequently shines; I am not sure I could manage to happily live during all the gray, drizzly days of the Pacific Northwest, especially in the colder times of the year.

5. We have various physicians who know and care about us; this is something that gets more important as we age.

I DO NOT LIKE the LONG period of heat and humidity that goes from April/May to the end of October! This almost negates all the good things listed above!

(In an ideal world, we would live in Bellingham, WA in the summer and in Corpus Christi in the winter. Often during the winter months, it feels like a "Bellingham summer" in Corpus Christi!)