Hi Denise!!!
Welcome back...what a great update...I'm so very happy for you!!
Seems things have worked out better than you hoped or even imagined...from the drive with your cats, to your mom (that was something else), to your house with that beautiful view. I can picture that...what a view to wake up to every morning...ahhhhhhhhh
...and that is just the beginning of your new life...WOW!
You are too funny, "I can't wait until it snows.. hey, with my menopause I can lay in the snow and melt the entire state... Yeah, I'm nuts! 
" Thanks for that great endorfun fix girl. Laughter does the mind, body, and spirit good!
May your life away from the Big City, and into the wild and crazy countryside, be more than you could ever have hoped for, dreamed of, or imagined!!! I vaguely remember you saying that you WERE a country girl at heart.
Happy thoughts, hugs, and prayers,
Rhonda