Sorry I've been lazy since getting back to Florida but I just want mention we had a great trip down with very little traffic after we left the cabin at 4:30 in the morning. It was such a beautiful morning with 57 degrees and the stars were so bright(no pollution) that one could almost reach out and touch them, anyhow when we reached the deep south Georgia/Florida border were were showing 95 outside, yikes that's a bit warm, about 15 degrees warmer than anything we had experienced in the past 5 weeks. We made Tampa Town at 2 PM which was the quickest ever and actually stopped by Sam's to get goodies for this next week of meals, stopped by GG and Pap's house to pick up the old time roaster and to visit and still made it home by 3:30, wow were we ever time efficient. After unpacking we headed over to Amy and Tyler's to love up on Ava and Samuel and of course their parents. It's amazing how much little ones change in such a short period of time. Ava was delightful and very loving and Samuel is such a smiley baby and so strong. Amy had prepared one of her specialties; spaghetti and meatballs which a great toss salad using some of Tyler's homegrown 'maters. We had a great evening and I could feel myself starting to wind down around 9PM so we headed out.
After getting ready for bed I just laid there as all the sounds; sirens, cars, motorcycles and dogs barking would not let me sleep and the bed made a difference and especially the a/c running. It's the same when we head back as we can "hear the quietness" at the cabin, oh well its good to be home for awhile but not really excited about the smothering humidity and heat.
Saturday morning we were up around 6:30 as I really wanted to get a good ocean swim in as we are only a few minutes from the beach. So we headed out and hooked up with our friends and neighbors Dan and Carol. The water was so clear and warm, almost to warm. We took a good walk in the surf then I swam for several minutes before it got just too hot to be anywhere but in the water. The exercise was great and just enough rollers to make it interesting and fun. Luckily we haven't seen any oil down our way from the oil rig explosion that happen near the coast of Louisiana several weeks ago.
After getting back from the beach Nancy headed out to satisfy her "fix" of shopping at Publix's and I headed to the back yard gardens. There I had left the garden which was still producing a little when we left so that anyone could pick the remaining veggie's, anyhow of course with no rain and high heat the only thing growing was weeds about waist high. I pulled them and then spread about 8 large plastic bags of leaves over the garden so the earthworms could have something to munch until planting time again in October.
After a salad for lunch we were waiting on our grandson, Samuel to arrive as Amy and Tyler were taking Ava to see Toy Story#3. We had a super time playing and spoiling him and he entertained us with his sweet personality, he is such a smiley child and doesn't want to miss a thing as he would only catnap from time to time. Nancy got him to take a bottle(filled with Amy's milk) which he doesn't usually do and I laid down on the bed with him as he played with his toes and feet and smiled the whole time. He never fussed at all even when he was still awake around 9 when everyone left for home.
We had GG and Pap as well as the Ross family for grilled chicken, new spuds, yellow squash and salad for supper and we are having the same gang again this evening for Fathers Day dinner of roast pork, sauerkraut, kielbasa smashed spuds and salad and some dessert. Bobby and Jill can't make it today so we are heading to Riverview on Monday for lunch date with friends Jerry and Becky Hoffman then over to Bob's for and afternoon in the pool with grand daughter Annsley and then Bob is cooking a dinner for Brian(Jill's dad) and me on Monday evening as our Father's Day treat. As you read this post notice about all we do is eat but it's great to be with family and especially the grand babies.
Well we are getting ready to head to Tampa for worship this AM at Element Church, if your not busy we are near the corner at Causeway Blvd and US 41. LATER
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