Birthday

What a week this has been. Started with another project here at home2 and ended with a wonderful dinner last night , hosted by Todd and Shannon, at Cabrera's.

Monday evening met Todd and Shannon to buy the supplies needed to put up a trellis between the house and work shop. We"re looking for honeysuckle to plant there.

Next project was to Lowe's to purchase screens for our doors. The contractor picked them up the next day and planned to have them both installed that afternoon, but as with most things it didn't quite happen that way. Mike, the contractor, had never worked with this manufacturer before and had a hard time following their instructions so it took him and his assistant four hours to put in one screen. They came the next day and finished the job. He needs to come back and tweak them a little before we will sign off on them.

On Friday Doug and I went on our first "old people" bus trip, went with a group from Camelot East to the Hard Rock Casino in Tampa. It was fun, the cost was $20 each and the casino gave us $25 in free play and a $5 coupon towards lunch. Doug played the time on their money and walked away with $17, I played with their money for over an hour before dipping into ours.

Saturday was my birthday and it was very nice. Heard from several friends via Facebook and then a wonderful dinner. Today will be desert over at Todd and Shannon's with all the grand kids, this has been a very good week.

Dinner Flop

Had Todd and Shannon over for dinner the other night but......... I had bought a new crock pot and cooked up , White Beans and Ham Soup, well even soaking the beans overnight and cooking on high in the pot for four hours the beans were HARD. So everyone dined on salad and cornbread. Needless to say the crock pot was returned to the store the next day.
Last night was wild, we've heard the last two winters about an event that happens every Sunday night down at Siesta Key so decided to go down. Drummers get together and play for hours. These are drummers of all ages and every type of drum, they stand or sit in a group and just beat on their drums. People come from all around and you can either sit and watch or get up and join in. Children were given hula hoops to play with, a very small woman dressed as a belly dancer gave out flowers and then she danced, a gentleman was there dressed all in black with a white hat on who gave blessings with bird feathers as he danced around. As I said it was a wild night but very interesting. After the sun went down and the parents took their children home it got even wilder, young people moving their bodies as if they were in a jungle dancing around a wildfire or maybe placing a curse on someone. Later I'll post some pictures that Doug took after he gets them loaded on the computer.

Day before Good Friday

It may be spring elsewhere but here it feels like summer, temps in the 80's, this is what we winter in Florida for. Invited to Siesta Key for an afternoon to sunset picnic, had a great time and met several couples so live here in Camelot East. The food was wonderful, everyone brought their favorite dishes (mine was my spaghetti salad) and I tasted everything, including the three 3-bean salads. We understand that it is a standing joke to count how many bean dishes show up.

Saturday was spent driving around just visiting interesting shops and getting new ideas for things to do in home2.

Granddaughter Amber called to let us know that her fiancee, Mark, has gotten a promotion to Assistant Manager with Publix. We're very happy for them.

Dinner today at Todd and Shannon's, smoked ham.
Hope everyone has a Happy Easter

Edison & Ford Winter Estates

Tuesday, day off from exercising and we decide to take a day trip. Had heard about the Edison & Ford Museum in Fort Meyers so headed that way. The estate is over 13 acres and you can take a guided tour or just get the earphones and tours by yourself. We elected to go with the earphones and took our time wandering around. The homes are beautiful. Lots of history, we never knew that Edison, Ford and Firestone were such good buddies. In the museum is a Ford Van that Ford had converted for all the camping trips the three families took together.
Edison visited Fort Myers in 1885 and that same day purchased his property, the next year he built his two homes using materials shipped from his home estate in New Jersey. Ford visited for several years then in 1916 purchased the home next door. On the grounds are many trees and bushes. A four foot Banyan tree that Firestone gave to Edison in 1925 is now the second largest in the U.S., first is in Maui.
If ever in the area we highly recommend this as a must stop.

WII Fit

Well we've finally gotten serious about exerise! Started on the Wii Fit and work out every other day, talk about sore!! On the days we don't do the Fit we take long walks. What we are seeing is sore bodies, oh my goodness, backs, legs, feet ouch