Friday, May 1, 2020

Good morning. And, happy May Day! 💐 Dance about the Maypole ... if you dare. 💀 Actually, that’s not very funny, is it? Today, in much of Florida, stay at home restrictions are lifted as ‘things return to normal.’ There is no normal after COVID-19 🤷‍♀️. 

... Stay safely at home 99% of May

... Wear a mask when you venture out for grocery and anytime you’re forced to be in public

... Maintain 6’ of distance between yourself and others

... Avoid eating inside restaurants; safer to pickup or have home delivery of your favorites 

... Socializing with others outdoors is safer than indoors

... Wash your clothes immediately after being in public

... Enjoy friends and family through FaceTime or Zoom 

... Continue Social Distancing please 

Doctors and scientists have grim predictions for another wave of COVID-19 and that 70% of the USA 🇺🇸 population will have been infected before ‘herd immunity’ can knock down this plague. 

Summer temperatures are always around us in Florida yet we have had nearly 34,000 REPORTED cases. (Testing has been minimal ... making me think we’ve had quadruple that number, or more.) My point here is don’t think ‘summer heat’ will beat the virus down ... it has affected the Sunshine State too!

Here’s what president trump has to say, and you know he has the best ever ideas 🙄

Is that you Mom? 🤣 

This afternoon, we took Robbie and Belize with us for a boat ride to fish camp for Friday fish fry. Karen and Pete launched their boat today and met us there. We sat on our boats and had lunch and drinks. It was so nice to see them and catch up on news. 

Racing to lunch. 🥰

The Fish Camp desperately needs business. The staff was wearing facemasks and all the food came out piping hot. It was a delightful afternoon! 💕 After lunch, Karen & Pete went through the Dora Canal  while Mark and I took the long way around Lake Eustis to check out the construction site at downtown Ferran Park. 

Fantabulous afternoon with the doggos on Lake Eustis. 

At 4 o’clock, I signed on zoom with 10 of the Yaya girls. It was a yakky-fest, and you could hardly tell what story was what. But, it was fun. 🍷🍷🍷

That’s it for today. We are going to chill out and watch TV tonight. 

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Good morning. A storm front rolled through around two in the morning. Of course the weather radio woke us up but aside from that, it’s a gorgeous start to the day. We have light rain and 70°. I was enjoying the peace and quiet on the front porch until Lynn and Ozzie walked by, Lynn wearing a red raincoat. Well that set off Mz Bee!  I bet she thought it was something crazy. Then Robs barked!

They both went in the house while I enjoyed my coffee.  ☔️ ☕️ 

So LaDonna and I have another art challenge. She must’ve been feeling quite psychedelic when she chose this for me ...

Yikes! 

So you see how this challenge is progressing. 😂

Mark hung the sign I finished yesterday ...

Cute, eh! 

We had happy hour on front porch with the kids and ate popcorn. It was really breezy and nice. After our dinner of chicken pot pies we talked with RanDawn. It was Randy’s nite to cook and he followed a Rachael Ray recipe. 

 

It looks good ... 

but Randy didn’t like it at all! (Dawn thought it was pretty good.)

That’s it. We had a good day. 

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Hey, how’d it get dark so fast. Ha! This Wednesday disappeared on us both!

LaDonna and Wayne asked us if we’d like a decorative glass plate with whiskey and a cigar on it. It sounded cool ... 

but entailed turning out the entire curiosity cabinets. 

There are 4 cabinets ... lots of polishing. I’d been procrastinating for 6 weeks on doing this job! Ha! It took a regift to motivate me. 😆

While I was working on that project, Mark got our hurricane fuel supply then took a load of aluminum recycling to the scrap yard. 

Back seat full ... bumper load full ... front seat loaded

Mark does a very good deed amassing this junk for recycling. Well done!  🌎 That’s his annual Earth Day 
contribution. ✅

At 4 o’clock we tidied up and had happy hour with Lynn on her pool deck. It was a gorgeous afternoon. Rose and Jim, Pat and Ken, Kim and Bob joined the fun. Lynn had us all well-spaced out, chairwise. Haha. We’re always spaced out said Ken. 😜 By 5:30 we were home to feed the Scotties. After dinner, we took the kids for a ride on The Caddy. 

There’s another lot being prepped for construction and this huge tree root was dug out. 

Massive, isn’t it!

The last big walk of the day was successful ...

Now it’s TV time. Ta ta til tomorrow. 

Wash 🧼 your 🖐 🤚 and stay healthy. ❤️

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Good morning. Mark, with facemask, and Bob, with facemask have gone to the Ocala forest to blaze a new trail. They haven’t been to the woods for at least six weeks and today was just the perfect temperature for a nice hike. Meanwhile, I did the morning chores and have tons of laundry to catch up on after going boating yesterday. With this darn virus everything goes in the wash after one wearing! 

Mark got back home about noon, we had lunch and he took the dogs for a ride to visit Ken and drop off a sprayer for his garden. meanwhile, I finished a painting for a friend, Nancy.

The cork reads the name of her favorite wine ... 19 Crimes! I hope she likes it. 

I took the painting to Nancy and we distanced ... me on the golf cart and she about 8’ away. We drank wine and yakked for an hour. It was fun catching up. 

And, she loved the painting. 

Now I must start the lettering on Mark’s sign! That’s it for today!  Stay safe ... 

Monday, April 27, 2020

Good morning. It is a bright beautiful sunshiny day here in Central Florida. Since it is only going to a high of 75 today we are going boating. You never know how many low humidity, lower temperature days we have coming to us in the next few months. It’s best to take advantage of them. It’s also a wonderful way to get out and just enjoy the great outdoors.

An odd thing happened yesterday, our friend and neighbor Lynn came to our door looking distressed and disheveled. Apparently she had gotten a B in her bonnet and started cleaning out Lew’s boathouse shed. She asked if Mark would come over and take any tools he wanted. (We were just sitting down to our Stavros dinner but I thought he should go over and have a look.) So about two hours later, Mark stuck his head in the door and said he would eat later. Marky Mark was invited to look too and I saw them hauling a tablesaw over to his property. Lynn had no idea of Lew’s  collection of ‘stuff.’ Apparently there were drawers full of washers, a bucket stuffed full of long paint stirrers and mass quantities of odds and ends. Lynn’s  son Benn was there helping, but he had hurt his back and was mostly standing off to the side. Lynn wanted it all gone, and gone right away. So the fellows grabbed the trash cans and threw all the “good stuff” in there for future sorting. Then they hauled the cans over to Marky Mark’s where they are going through it today. There was a lot of good stuff, but no time to just sort through it at leisure. 🤷‍♀️ 

After lunch, we took Wayne and LaDonna for a cruise around Lake Eustis, Haines Creek and the Dead River! It was a marvelous day; low 70’s, low humidity and sunny. 

Wayno and LaDonna

New tiki cover at Hurricane’s!

Mz Bee with her dad. 

We stopped at Palm Gardens and ordered fries, dockside. It was a grand day! 

Back home, we had dinner then I got into painting for an hour while Mark watched Waco. 

Stay safe! Wash wash wash and wear a mask when you go out in public. . 

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Sunday, April 26, 2020

Good afternoon! Happy Sunday! 

Yesterday’s waterfall painting. 

We started our morning in the kitchen. I baked 100 Pumpkin Applesauce dog cookies while Mark cooked a big batch of ground turkey for the Scotties. 

Here are the Florida stats ... 31,528 cases of COVID-19 and Florida’s Ron DeSantis is letting the ‘stay at home’ and ‘shelter in place’ order expire on May 1st. We’re going to continue our social distancing and limit our grocery shopping to twice a month for the month of May ... at least. It’s not safe for us to be in the public, nor for anyone. This morning a 27 year old died with NO pre-existing  complications. The average age of the deaths is now 42-53. 

We know the Trumpers want the economy open so businesses must come up with a new mode of operations to keep their workers and customers safe. Until then, I believe a vast majority will remain safe at home. 

Last night we Zoomed with LaDonna & Wayne ... it was a blast. We had some hiccups but sorted out our problems quickly. 

Robbie’s giving BeeZee the side-eye. 🤣

Ta ta til tomorrow. 

Saturday April 25, 2020

Good morning sunshine. I was up early enough to watch purple martins and dragonflies darting about getting their breakfast. After the kids were bored with their backyard, I made coffee and we sat on the front porch to watch the sun come up. Hearing the birdsong is uplifting ... Cat Stevens song always comes to mind ‘Morning has broken like the first morning.’ It’s 68F here, dewy and fresh. 

We took the dogs for a half hour golf cart ride around the neighborhood before lunch. It is a gorgeous day here in Central Florida. Today’s lunch is going to be pastrami on rye ...

done in the panini press. YUMMERS ... we’ve been craving this! 

It was sure good! (Guess we’re missing Tillie’s!)

I talked to Sue this morning. It’s quite hot in South Florida, for April ... breaking records most days for the month of April. They played Mexican dominoes last night, just the two of them. That’s what being in isolation is all about. 🤷‍♀️ 

Randy & Dawn were cleaning the kitchen cabinets today. It’s Dawn‘s day to cook so Randy said he’s just going to chill out and watch. Ha ha. That will be a challenge for Randy, he won’t be able to sit still. They ordered a new piece for the kitchen ...

it’s pretty nice ... and they have just the space for it alongside the fridge! 😎

Tonight we’re working out the kinks on Zoom ... Wayne and LaDonna are signing on at 6:30 ... hope it works well. There’s a learning curve. 

Ta ta til tomorrow.