Sunday

Well it was another HOT and humid day here in central Florida and the morning started with temps in the high 70's, yikes where did those cool crisp morning go that were here 2 weeks ago? Only 13 more days until we are in the high country and hopefully some sweater weather in the morning, Ahhh!!! The morning other than the warm temps was much the usual with Chester the 5 o'clock alarm sounding off loud and clear. We did manage to tune him out until 7'ish before rolling out of the sack(old military saying).

After our quiet times and a lite breakfast of oatmeal and fruit we got ready to head out to Tampa for worship at Element Church with son, Bobby. We rode with Dan and Carol and they brought their house guest Marie , who is from Sweden with them as well. After the service we headed over to Plant City where the annual blueberry festival was being held at the Curl and Kurley Winery which specializes in blueberry wine as well as u-pick berries. We walked around the grounds and it was the usual stuff found at these type events but the place was packed despite it being in the 90's and no breeze. Dan picked up their case of vino as they are club members and we headed back to Pinellas to have a late lunch at the Olive Garden.

We sat in the lounge area where we could watch the Rays playing and had a dewisheous(Annsley) lunch of Zuppa soup and bread sticks for starters then for entrees of chicken, salmon and I had mussels, shrimp and scallops on a bed of fettuccine, yikes was that ever good and the girls brought home their leftovers. There goes the spare tire but it was very tasty for a change. We never ate anything the rest of the day except for a handful of nuts about 7 PM. Back to watching the Rays play while we ate as they scored 4 runs in the first inning and and only one more the rest of the game and then got blown out by the A's 9-5, yikes what a let down as the pitching was horrible. They head to N.Y. to play the Yanks for 3 games on Tuesday. We are hoping for a sweep as that occurred last time we played them to start the season.

Well hoping in 2 weeks on Sunday the 20th I will be posting from a higher elevation of around 3000 feet and the temps will be drastically cooler. Summer is in full swing here and its dry as all get out. I'm hoping my seedlings that I plan to bring with me to the summer garden will survive until I can get them in the ground there. We are catching up on all the doctor appointments for Nancy's mom and herself and starting to pack some things as well as making a list of all the things we must do here before heading out for what we hope will be at least 6 months. We are filling the calendar with dates for those who are planning on visiting this summer and if your thinking of heading up our way drop us a line via e-mail and reserve your date or make sure we are there if you come by for just the day.

I'm getting excited about helping out the widows and widowers on our mountain with the garden tilling and little odd jobs for them and of course getting my own gardens in shape for the upcoming growing season as well as getting together with our very active church family and friends. We are saddened that we will not see our grand babies on a daily and weekly basis but we will have a big celebration when they all come in July at different times. There is a trade off but if we want to keep our cabin in the mountains for our kids and grand kids, we have to maintain it as it's been nearly 8 months since  we've last been there. Well I've rambled long enough, LATER