Monday

Well it was downright cold for Florida as the temp's for our area were right at the freezing mark and when I rode out to the rec at 7:15 frost was everywhere except on my garden. The big oak once more saved the plants as frost was everywhere the big oak wasn't anyhow it was a cool day all day except for late afternoon when the wind died down and the direct sun rays finally brought the temps up to the 50 mark. Tuesday its supposed to get back into the low 70's.

The morning found us awake at 5'ish and big beak Chester was doing his thing but the bed was so snugly and warm I stayed in until 6 before the usual quiet time and bowl of oatmeal before riding out to the rec for a couple hours of pickle ball. We had a good crowd and the new Canadian couple Marcell and Louise were there and they are very nice players. I think she maybe better than him but they use paddles that aren't sanctioned by the USPBA as the ball just flys off the paddle at a tremendous speed, yikes and the paddles have a completely different sound from the synthetic material used to construct them. After 2 plus hours I headed by the library to pick up a new book.

Nancy had an appointment with an ear, nose and throat doctor regarding her sore lip. change of voice and also burning mouth syndrome. The doctor checked her throat and found it to be fine with maybe some minor acid reflux and the lip didn't appear to be cancerous so he prescribed some medicine for the digestion and a salve for the lip and the burning mouth is probably related to all the stress associated to her father's bad health and eventually his passing. The salve helped right away and she has to take this pill for the reflux once a day for a couple weeks so that should clear up the voice change as the throat heals. Thankfully that is all it is.

We came home to have lunch with Amy and the kids as Tyler is in cold Virginia for his job for this week. The airlines loss his luggage initially and his coat was inside so when he arrived at Dulles he had no luggage thus no coat; luckily it was on the next flight. After lunch it had warmed up enough for Sam and I to spend an hour or so outside in the back yard in the sun. It wasn't too cold if you stayed out of the shade so I read awhile as he and Chester played. That rooster lets Sam grab him and hold on through the fence to his tail feathers and Sam just thinks that's the greatest thing, oh well.

After they left for their naps and mine Nancy took off to take GG to several appointments and they all came back to our house for supper. We had a huge ham bone with lots of meat on it so that made a great pot of pasta fouzuel soup and along with a fresh garden salad and crusty bread we had a feast once again and did that soup ever hit the spot on this cool evening. The temps once again were dropping fast as the sun went down and every one left around 7:30 for the night after the kids baths.

I read a little and by 10 PM the sand man was calling my name, LATER