We had a fun Monday driving to Arcadia FL to see an Army buddie of Jim's. Karl and Dottie, Dottie has lived in Florida all her life so I had real fun talking to her finding out about her history in Florida. She in fact lived in Homestead FL growing up and then went to Miami to go to Nursing School. She met Karl while he was at Homestead Army base. I love a good love story, the base sponsored dances and invited nearby groups to meet and greet and dance with the soldiers and they started up a friendship that turned to love and marriage, going on 52 years I think.
You wouldn't believe their wonderful place, 10 miles from Arcadia and 30 plus acres in the woods with a wonderful brick home and pond. By the way a wonderful pond that's 9 feet deep and full of fish and did Jim ever have fun fishing. A fish with every cast. The platform was one to be envied, it even had an aeration system in the pond, and a automatic feeding dumpster. It was great.
We went out to lunch and I even got to ride in their new (2 day old) Masda Sports Car!
Loved the tour of Arcadia, some of the old homes looked spectacular, nothing like that in Remer, but then Remer has many other qualities. I even heard Linda Johnson won at least 3 times at Cribbage. I wonder if that's true. Way to go Linda, and she just joined the group a few months ago. I wonder how she would have done with Jim Churchill. Heard he was quite an Ace.
We had a wonderful day and Dot made us a fun dessert. Dirt Cake. It was really good and sent us home with a couple slivers of Pistachio cake. Really good. So Green!
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