Windy Thursday

Does anyone have a spare windmill? I am no expert, but if this park had a windmill, I know it would generate enough power to run this park and the whole neighborhood across the street! Sheesh. We are getting blown away, and there is no such thing as leaving our awning out. It is automatic, so when the wind gets too high (all day!), it retracts. We at least got smart and have a table umbrella that is anchored well, and it has those vent thingies up top so that the wind goes through it and it stays in place. Not that we've wanted to sit out on the patio much. Even so, our weather here is still better than it is in Mayberry, where we'll be by the end of the month. Time is flying, just like this wind!

Work got in the way of beading yesterday, so that is today's project. I hope I have everything I need...but if I don't, I'll just regroup and do something different. That's the fun of it!

Enjoy your day, y'all, especially Roger, who is 80-something today (Joy's dad). Love ya both...

Sweet dreams...

Where has the day gone?

I got several things accomplished that were not in the plans...Haley helped from afar with one of them. Thanks, honey.

And the things I had planned didn't get done.

But I had a nice unexpected tonight when I got to hear the preview of a talk Macey (8) has to give soon at school on the life of Eleanor Roosevelt. She did her research (with a wee bit of help from Mom), and read her project so confidently to me over the phone.

Yes, I'm a proud Grammie...who is VERY blessed.

Sleep well, my darlings. Tomorrow will be here soon.

Florida in March explained

 

Brian just sent the above photo of our deck up in Mayberry, taken this morning.

See Dick on our patio, and it is raining.

Which location would you chose for winter?

Y’all stay warm up there!

Par-tay!!!

We leave, and the kids are still throwing parties at our house!

Cornhole, anyone? Huh??? Never heard of Cornhole? Well, apparently it is a fun game:

Cornhole or Corn Toss is similar to horseshoes except you use wooden boxes called cornhole platforms and corn bags instead of horseshoes and metal stakes. Contestants take turns pitching their corn bags at the cornhole platform until a contestant reaches the score of 21 points.

Cold weather outside, plus one empty moho bay inside, equals a perfect place to thrown a cornhole party, so that is what our 3 kids did Saturday night. Pots of soup, a little beer and wine, 22 friends having fun - priceless! Rumor has it that everyone was gone long before midnight, so it seems the kids are all getting older, just like us.

Dick is still playing in the concrete...I am playing with beads. Sounds like a good day to me. I hope your Monday is a fun day! March on...

Sunday stuff...

So here are two bracelets I made the other day, since I had just enough beads to make the two. I wore one this morning to church; the other one is going to..........someone........who reads the blog....and deserves a little something special. I think she'll like it. I liked all the various shades of black and gray, and used small black glass spacers between the gemstones. Jasper I think. They weren't labeled, dang it. I don't like not knowing.

I needed some lobster clasps for some other bracelets I plan to make, and wound up going by the 'real' bead store. They had pearls for 75% off, so I got a stand to play with...soon. What a deal! I love pearls.

I am so ready to say goodbye to February. Come on spring! We are still windy and chilly here in WPB. GWMA...it isn't happening here! This has been a COLD winter and I want it GONE.

We aren't hockey fans, but we sure are rooting for Team USA to beat Canada. Our neighbors just cheered for the point made. Us or them will not like the outcome, but we'll all be good sports...and life will get back to normal tomorrow with no Olympics to watch.

So that's our day here in Paradise. Hope yours is a great one!

Saturday progress...

Dick has been hard at work layering rocks, rebar, and concrete to the end of our sidewalk. It is slopped down both sides so that heavy rigs can go across it without cracking the concrete again.

At least that is the plan.

And now that Dick is pretty much finished with that project, he moved to the back of our patio where he had already removed some ugly plants (we inherited the landscaping). He is filling in the area with paving stones and concreting them in. This will give us more usable patio area...and it will all eventually be prettied up with the topcoating.

He is now finished with all the messy work he is gonna do today, just in time for the rain to hit here. Plus he ran out of bags of concrete.

I am having an equally exciting day doing laundry, and am about to get a pot roast in the crock pot for tonight's dinner, watch the Olympics, and go to Wally World. We live such exciting lives.

So what's for dinner at your house? Enjoy your Saturday.

A little known fact...

The first testicular guard "Cup" was used in hockey in 1874, and the first helmet was used in 1974.


It took 100 years for men to realize that the brain is also important.



Bless their hearts.