Monday Morning

Brr it has turned cold here once again for a couple days, especially with the strong wind around 15-20 mph. Yikes I even wore a coat to church yesterday. It did warm up to the low 50's but the wind chill kept it somewhere in the 40's. Our heat has been on for 2 days now and we are ready for it to warm up. I think the forecast is to be back in the 70's by Tuesday. I sure hope the frost stayed away last night.

Well Sunday started out with once again the feathered fowl next door crowing at 5:30 in the AM; boy would he look good in a roaster at 325 degrees for a couple hours especially at that time in the morning. We got ready after our quiet time and a light breakfast for our ride to Tampa at Element Church with Dan and Carole for worship. The wind in the bay waters had white caps on all the waves and the air was just plumb cold. Seems the more humid it is the cold goes right through your clothing to the bone. There was a nice crowd with several new faces and tons of little ones. Bob had a nice message once again on our perception of getting to know just who GOD is and how we can get to know HIM. The music was awesome as well and then we all took communion together with the loaves of bread and wine(grape juice).

After the service Dan who is an elder had a join meeting with the church council so Carol, Nancy and myself went to the Brandon Mall for lunch. We had a great soup and sandwich at Panera Bread then checked out the Disney Store for a doll for Ava on her birthday in April before heading back to pick up Dan and then head home. It got the warmest for the day at 53 so I headed out to hand water the gardens as the wind has just dried everything out plus the moisture at the roots of plants seems to help with keeping damage to a minimum when it gets close to freezing or with cold temps. We sat around and read the rest of the afternoon until it was time to pick up GG. I'm reading a new book, its a novel GG was reading she said I would like it and I do. It's titled GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn. Different but a real page turner.

Well we were taking GG with us to celebrate Nancy's birthday again with a dinner out at the Bone Fish Grille. Betsy(sister) and Braden(cousin) were to join us but somehow they were nearly an hour late. She is always late but that is her trademark, anyhow we had a delicious meal with 2 shrimp appetizers and crusty bread dipped in herbs and oil. We even had a glass of vino as well. Nancy had the pecan crusted rainbow trout and I had shrimp and scallops and GG had the salmon. All of the meals were tasty and we licked the platters clean. I don't believe we have ever had a bad meal there and so do a lot of other folks there as well, as the place was jumping(busy) all evening. We left there just as darkness was falling and drove GG home.

The temperature was starting to drop once again but they weren't predicting a freeze for us and with the wind I wasn't to afraid of frost; anyhow I will know in a few minutes as daylight approaches. Well I just checked and none of the neighbors roof tops are covered in the white stuff and the local temp says it's 42. Looks like the garden survived another cold snap as today its back to the 60's and tomorrow its back to the 70's. Well I better git out of here and get ready for the rec and a some pickle ball. Only 3 days this weeks as a local festival takes over the rec for 3 days and the gym will be closed, LATER