Bye-Bye Fortuna California. Hello Pickens South Carolina Poem
By Bri Edwards
Today my ‘heart was heavy’, & my sweat was flowing.
‘Twas near 80 degrees F, nearly no wind was blowing.
In Fortuna now, ‘temps’ are 15-20 degrees more cool.
If not following my mate, I’d stay in CA; I’m not a fool.
{ Or, …am I? ? ]
Fortuna CA had poisin ‘oak’ but none was on our lot.
Now in SC I try to recall each & every poisin ‘ivy’ spot.
Each home’s had a few lizards and snakes which I like.
Here I’ve seen a turtle, with home on back, out for a hike.
We’ve some pesky mosquitoes, … & flies (up my nose) fly,
We’ve bothersome ‘bees’ [not ‘honey’, I know not why].
We live ‘in a woods’, no lawn, but TOO many tree leaves.
The ONE snow our first winter I shoveled ‘in shirt sleaves’.
Yes! It just snowed once, …but NEVER did at our last home..
AND… SC has tornadoes! One,10 miles from us, did roam.
At times here the wind is fierce, toppling even very big trees.
So far we’ve only ‘lost’ branches. I beg weather god: ‘please,
….let no trees fall on us or our driveway or our big house,
as some trees could flatten me, like I’ve flattened a mouse!
But in SC I’ve not heard of wildfires. In California we did, sure!
Dealing with bad weather, as with illness, there IS NOT…..
always a cure.