Saturday, March 7, 2020

Good afternoon. It’s a bright beautiful sunshiny day with a wind out of the north. That has kept it cooler than normal, but a welcome change from last week’s high 80s. 

Mark and Marky Mark are cutting down a huge limb that hangs over his pool area. Removing that will help to keep it all a lot cleaner on the screened enclosure. 

I did the household chores and then began a new painting. The hard part is always deciding just want to paint.

Today is Wayne‘s birthday. We wish him a happy, healthy and prosperous year, with many more to come.

Robbie, Belize and I are sitting out back enjoying the wind chimes and the beautiful breeze. There’s not a cloud in the sky.

It’s a chamber of commerce type day. 😎

 

Friday March 6, 2020

Good afternoon sunshine! It’s TGIF ... and a fine day for a cruise! LaDonna and Wayno are joining us ... Karen and Pete are still painting their house so aren’t joining in the fun. Dawn’s at work, so they’re not going with us. No problem ... we’ll have a fine time. 🐝 

We left home just after 1 o’clock and decided because of the wind change to go to the Crazy Gator in downtown Eustis. 

Mark and Wayne smoked Lew’s last 2 cigars that Lynn had given Mark. 

Yeah it was windy! But we had fun! Cheers! 

Lunch was really good. LaDonna had the Eustis Cobb salad, I had chicken planks with blue cheese, Mark had fish and chips, and Wayne had Quesadillas. When we left the restaurant, the wind has died down briefly as it was switching around again. It was a nice ride home! 

Tonight, I think we’re just going to relax at home and reframe a picture that RanDawn gave us! I bought a frame at the garage sale yesterday for $5 bucks. 😂

Cool. We like Eileen Seitz art. 

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Good morning. There’s a ding dang dong big front coming and I ached all night long. What the heck. How can you go from feeling 100% one day to feeling only 50% by morning.

Dayam, that front is miles away yet affects my joints! Here it’s sunny and warm! 


Mark spent his day helping Marky-Mark and then shopping for a new chain saw. Happy is a man with tools. 😜

I helped out at the garage sale but mainly was a shopper. 😂

Randy & Dawn came over at 4 o’clock and we had a couple of cocktails, Ceasar salad and then pizzas.

Dawn brought over 4 lotto tickets and Randy was the big winner, 2 dollars. Winner winner chicken dinner! Anyway, we had lots of laughs.

Tomorrow, it’s a boating day. That’s it for tonight. Tata till tomorrow. 

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Good afternoon sunshine. It’s a summery day here with a high in the 80’s later. My morning was spent cooking the dog’s potatoes, sweet potatoes and green beans. While I was doing that, Mark painted our old outside chairs. 

Randy & Dawn called hoping we would meet them for Mexican food tonight. Mark said he needs a night off just to chill out, so that’s what we are going to do. RanDawn will come over tomorrow and join us for pizzas at home. 

As you can see, Dawn got the palm tree repotted while Randy sunbathed. 🤣 

Actually, Dawn said Randy worked so hard moving river rock to the flower beds. It all looks gorgeous! Well done guys! 😍

It’ll be a busy day tomorrow around our neighborhood with the start of the annual neighborhood garage sale. I’m helping out at the sale for a few hours in the morning. 

Mark will be helping Marky-Mark hang drywall tomorrow! That’s a good sign that he’s making progress on the main house. 😉

I think that’s it for today; we’re worn out this week. 

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

It’s a good morning here in the Sunshine State! But, the news is grim with a powerful tornado ripping through Nashville Tennessee overnight. The TV news coverage shows buildings down. It’s going to be a terrible day there. 

On the homefront, Mark plans a day in the woods with his buddy Bob. Me? I’m going to have a day of painting and a few chores. Mostly though, a relaxing day for us both. 

We were invited to Kim and Bob‘s place tonight for drinks at 7 o’clock. I guess we had fun as we didn’t get home until 11. 😜

Ta ta til tomorrow. 

Monday, March 2, 2020

Good morning. We’re up a little bit early getting things done as we are going to Bushnell, Florida today. Lynn asked us to go to Lew’s interment at the military cemetery. It’s an hour from here. I get very stressed out from funerals and the like. Last night, I had two separate nightmares. I will be glad when the service is over. Lynn needs us there. 

Last night we gifted our friends LaDonna and Wayne a Pizzazz Plus. (They’ve given us many wonderful things they were no longer using.) 🥰 Anyway, I guess they like it ... 

they’re having garlic knots for breakfast! 😂 

Mark took a load to the dump from trimming Marky Mark’s trees yesterday. The little trailer was well loaded. After that, he stopping at the post office to mail to eBay sales. I was able to print labels on my wireless printer. You can count me as amazed.

At noon we left for Bushnell and the Florida National Cemetery. Lew was interred there today. There were 12 of us there for Lynn and Benn. It was a nice touch, beautiful setting in the woods.  

Back home, I took the dogs for a golf cart ride while Mark lit a cigar and poured wine. We had a final toast to Lew. A little while later Lynn walked by with Benn’s dog Ozzie. She will have Ozzie there all week. He’s good company and an easy doggie. 

We’re chilling tonight. Ta ta. 

Sunday, March 1, 2020

Good morning sunshine! What a lovely start to the day! 

I had cooking to do for the dogs today, tidying up the house, laundry and then had three hours to paint today.  Mark and Marky Mark had decided to take down two trees by his boat house. They work several hours at it and have a trailer load for the dump on Monday.

Tonight, we were to meet Randy & Dawn plus LaDonna and Wayne at Stavros for dinner. Too bad, but Randy had a bad headache and they couldn’t make it. Darn, we were hoping to see them tonight. Stavros was so busy, we’ve never seen it with the lineup out the door like that. anyway, service was pretty good and the food was excellent, as usual.

Cheers everyone! More fun tomorrow.