Hallowe’en 2022

Happy Halloween from our house to yours! 

Geez, it’s going to be a busy one here! It’s Monday, and my bowling league day. And, it is our routine dental hygienist appointments. And of course, it’s burger night! 

Diane and Kris have been moving themselves so far, but we are going tomorrow to lend a hand. Mark hurt his back last Thursday so I don’t know how much he can do. But I can certainly help Diane with unpacking and she’s asked for help with where do I place the  furniture. 

We had two eBay sales today! Yay, wrapped and dropped off at the post office! Diane’s donations brought some luck. 

While I was bowling 🎳 Mark made a huge batch of turkey dinner for the kids! 

Saturday, October 29, 2022

Hey y’all. It’s nearly Halloween 👻 … October has just flown by! 

Tonight, just we two went for a pizza at Stavros and met an interesting couple. They came in 5 minutes after us and sat at the adjacent table. Small talk began … they’d RV’d many of the places we’ve been … including Tom Sawyer on the Mississippi! That’s where in 2011 we encountered the Kathy Bates lookalike. Anyway, Cheryl’s from Georgia and Fox is from Steinbach Manitoba! We exchanged numbers … maybe see them again. 

Thursday morning Mark hurt his back reaching while bending while in the woods with Wayno. He’s pretty sore but we know it’s just a strain. Ice, heat, advil and rest is fine medicine. 

That afternoon I went to game day at Elaine’s. It was so nice to see the core group. Pat, Deenna, Elaine and I played Balderdash. The others played Mexican dominoes; Nancy, Cheri, Carin and Trina. Elaine is a lovely hostess … lots of homemade cake and cookies which I avoided. 

Sue and Wayne are in south Florida sorting out their RV site renovations. Unfortunately, work hadn’t started yet; no permit. 🤷‍♀️ That’s sorted now and the new building should be finished end of the year. Tonight they’re at the Clubhouse. 

Diane and Kris closed on their new Villages home and begin moving in tomorrow. They’ve both just gotten over Covid … fortunately, there’s no rush to get moved. They can do it bit by bit.

Congratulations! (We haven’t seen it yet … maybe next week.) 

 

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

It’s our 28th wedding anniversary! What a fun filled 28 years it has been! 

Cheers to the years! ❤️🥂🍾

We met Sue and Wayne and Randy and Dawn at LaPalma in Leesburg for dinner. Dawn ordered what she thought was a small dinner …

OMG we all laughed! 

We had such fun! Dawn told stories that had us all giggling about Randy’s lack of construction skills. 🤪

It was a good anniversary get together. 

Tuesday October 25th 2022

Good morning sunshine! It’s another day in paradise, and another day to get it right. 

🤣🤣🤣

We puttered about all day … me cleaning inside and Mark outside. Maybe we’re caught up? Hope so. Tomorrow we celebrate 28 years married. 🥳🥂🍾❤️ 

Monday, October 24, 2022

Good evening. It’s been a fun evening! At 5 o’clock we picked up Kim and Nancy and headed to our local Applebee’s for dinner. They had a special on of burgers and a side of boneless wings. We waited for Wayne and LaDonna who thought we were meeting at 6 o’clock. Things have been crazy this week, they might’ve been right. 🤔 Anyway, we had a couple of drinks plenty of conversation and a lot of laughs. The food was good and our waitress excellent. 

Earlier today, Nancy and I went and bowled with Lynn and Gary. We did pretty well, and won all three games!  Nancy, who hadn’t bowled in 40 years, ended up getting a turkey, which is three strikes in a row. Wowsa! A 🦃 !!!

Sunday, October 23, 2022

Good evening. While Mark enjoyed a morning in the woods, I went to meet Sue for breakfast and ride on their new golf cart. It was fun, but I called Sue a student driver as she couldn’t reach the accelerator and doesn’t know left from right. Ha ha ha … what fun we had! 

After breakfast, we rode along the modal paths back and then regroup and went to see Diane and Chris. Chris was not feeling good, so we didn’t stay too long. Diane had sorted a few things she wanted rid of so today I did some listings on eBay for her. She has some really unique collections.

Yesterday was Randy man‘s birthday. He and Dawn celebrated in Savannah Georgia with a mini holiday! 

Breakfast in Savannah! Happy biggie birthday Randy! ❤️

On Wednesday, the family is all getting together to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries. It’s so nice we live near enough to do this.

Yesterday, we tidied up the backyard after the septic field was done. Mark leveled it and spread seed and then I helped by putting hay over the top. This will help the seed to germinate and be protected from the sun. Then, according to the septic boss, we will have a beautiful lawn by spring. We shall see, but it was a lot less expensive than doing sod. We were able to buy some Saint Augustine plugs, so Mark put those in which will help to fill it in.

That’s our hayfield. 😂

Our weather has been absolutely beautiful. Tonight, after our walk, we sat on the front porch with drinks and enjoyed the breeze. I think that’s it for today! 

Saturday, October 22, 2022

Good morning. It’s been a couple of kind of busy days around our place. Yesterday, it was our big adventure to take Robbie and BeeZee to the vet for their annual check ups and bloodwork. $555 later we came home to find the tree cutters had already taken down the branch of our camphor tree that was hanging over the neighbors house.  

Now this morning, they were back at 8 o’clock to take the rest of the stump down on the massive tree. It looks great! I am watching them take down a huge branch from a similar tree that is on the neighbors property. These guys are real cowboys, especially the climber.

The green building is our shed and the brown is the neighbors guest house.  

This afternoon Mark raked up and leveled the new septic field. We weren’t able to buy St. Augustine grass seed so put in Bahia grass seed and St. Aug plugs. Then … covered it with a couple bales of hay! 

A lovely hay field!