Jan 21 2022

Dang near freezing to death here in florida! high of 50 today and will probably freeze tonight. brought my tender tomato plant in for a few days. been working to hard  get a few tomatoes off of it. i brought it as a tiny plant from my garden in chippewa. it has about 12 tomatoes on it. still picking up roadside garbage on the sidewalk going into town but only go out every 12 days or so. still amazed at how much garbage people throw out their car windows. 

we had the Webster gang over for a big fish fry last friday. so phil, jan, dave and jo joined us 5 for fish, laughs, giant Jenga and a few drinks. fortunately, the mosquitoes held off till nearly 6:30. yay for that. they are totally vicious down here. 

we welcomed Kolsyn James Rykal into our family on Jan 13. 6# 11oz. our first great grandson. whew, now i feel old! 

not much new on the house deal. but did take a few pictures the last time we were inside. waiting now for the electric to be re hooked up and make sure everything works.

we went to the crystal river manatee festival on a nice saturday. way too many people but i did have a lobster roll from one of the food trucks and it was divine! bought some organic mosquito spray that was supposed to keep them away, but for me i think it just attracts them to me. maybe they will freeze out tonight!

bathroom #2 at house

bedroom #2

2 shots of the LR

kitchen 

outside view

kolsyn james. proud mama breanna!

jo trying to not knock down giant jenga

oops laurie not so lucky

 Jan 8 2022

Another year in the books. now starting year 6 but i think we are at the end of our cross  country  travels. tom is anxious to buy something and after some searching in the area

beth with her gator  on the air boat ride

my bike and toms new electric bike

toms old bike which was stolen one night shortle after we arrived in Lake Pan

toms sibs and wives out to dinner and i guess we need to buy the next round.

my little tree for christmas

dinner one evening with some great friends

just a sample of the garbage i have picked up

beth and i getting framed for christmas!

old friends fred and sharon maxwell invited us to their wonderful christmas party. what a spread!

mama turle getting busy digging her hole for eggs

kevin, aprill and girls came to her parents for christmas and vera and fred invited us down for the day

airboat ride with kevins family

our 2021 year of travels

beth and laurie enjoyed the ride too

we all got to hold a 4 year old alligator after the ride

what a great looking group of women who like their wine at the wine tasting. fun fun day.

re-inactment in bushnell. troops vs seminole indians. indians won. all but one soldier died in battle

we have found something we agree on. which is not an easy task. it is in Inverness Fl in a mobile home park. a essentially new double wide that was only lived in 4 months and went into foreclosure after she died.  we will be doing a second look on monday. 

it was a relatively quiet month in dec. not a lot of action in the park here. we as a group, todd, beth, laurie, tom and i have made our own fun for the most part. tom has made a friend (keith) with a boat and they have gone fishing a number of times and caught some big croppies. they are delicious! we went to a reinactment of  florida troops vs indians in bushnell. very interesting. met up with some friends we made in alabama for a delicious dinner and bike ride. thanks gail and scott for a great day. a mama turtle laid some eggs just up the road from us so looking forward to the hatching at the end of march. i have been picking up a bunch of garbage every week on the sidewalk leading into Lake Panasoffkee. disgusting what the slobs throw out their car windows, so far well over 20 bags of garbage has been picked up and disposed of properly. kevin and family came for christmas. great to be with them for the holidays.