Boy what a busy day, too busy because we had to leave the babies for hours at a stretch, felt bad about that, at 11 we had to be over at Ron & Polly Maki's, the first thing we did is put down the top on his convertible, I love it, and then he drove up around hi complex, they have a beautiful swimming pool, even has an island in it and they even serve food at a pool restaurant. He drove us over to one of their ponds and there is a huge alligator sunning himself. Here I haven't seen any alligators and all I had to do was go over to Ron and Polly's "Sterling Hills" complex. When the alligators get over 5 feet you can call the city and they are supposed to relocate them or something. This looked like a really big alligator.
I did it, I posted a picture to my blog. What an achievement. I wonder if I will remember how I did it, Mac told me to look for the picture icon but I could never find it and today I found it. Mac, it's so tiny. Let's see poor vision in one eye and blind in the other. Hummmmmmmmmm what' wrong with this. Anyway didn't Jim do a wonderful job on this. Now I can load lots of pictures and it's only 3 days and we leave for home. I think the thing I will be happiest about is getting away from all the traffic and people. My goodness there are a lot of people here. Millions. This is their home.
Next we drove around and around trying to find a parking spot at Barefoot Beach, there are supposed to be lots of shells there. Ron and Jim finally let Polly and I off and we set up headquarters at the beach, when the guys came we went to the snack shack and had polish dogs and then Polly and I got serious about shelling. As you can see we weren't the only ones. It's Polly's back you see at the beach.
Picking up shells at the beach is so relaxing. The temp at the beach was 78 but the water temp was only 63, pretty cool for swimming.
Picking up shells at the beach is so relaxing. The temp at the beach was 78 but the water temp was only 63, pretty cool for swimming.
We then went to an ice cream shop for cones. Fun as you can see Jim was impressed with the throngs of people there. Ron and Polly are in the foreground on the left.
We left at 3 pm and hurried home to clean up to get to Frank and Helen's by 4 pm. What a whirlwind day, I had to shower because I was all sandy from the Ocean and beach, Jim of course didn't even take off his shirt. There is a picture of us at a bait shop right outside the beach, the picture says it all, Ron was saying everyone stops there to take their picture because of the name of the shop, why should we be any different.
It looks like I need to put my pictures in backwards to get them to follow the story, oh well, ones first try can hardly be perfect. I wish it would get light out, when we take the dogs out in the morning or at night we always need to take a flashlight with and need I say why. We have picked up bags and bags of the stuff.
We went home and cleaned up, took a shower in the camper, it's a drag because I have 4 garbage bags of huge pine cones in the dogs kennel in the shower and it is cumbersome. What a twit. We got over to the Yates by 4:10 so not to bad. They weren't ready because we weren't supposed to be there till 4:30. Miscommunication. Better early than late I say. We went to their clubhouse for the Art Show. Was fun, wine and cheese, dipped strawberries and grapes and crackers. I brushed my teeth so I needed a cracker, wine after brushing your teeth is just plain as bad as juice after brushing your teeth. We enjoyed the show and in fact purchased a book of poems for Janet Brown. Her faith is inspiring and the author of the book of poems stated that's it's God that tells her what to write. For instance: Early each morning before the sun rises, I go into my small prayer closet and meet with the Lord. It's there that I pray, do my Bible reading and studies, and listen for my instructions for the day and write. In this quite time, I also put on the armor, in Ephesians 6, to protect myself for the day.
Won't you spend time with Him, and be about His business each day? These are the things that will help you get through the many storms in your life. Be Blessed. Author: Barbara A Hoff from Treasures in the Storm.
We had fun at the art show, Jim could do as well as some of the artist, or John and Carrie. I wonder how it is that some just have the talent to just put pen or brush in hand and create beautiful art. What a gift. We then went with Frank and Helen to "Miller's Pub" for a beer and dinner. It was good and we had fun, home by 8 or 8:30, the dogs were glad to see us you can bet. Fun day. 3 to go.
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