Fun Day

Tuesdays are always fun days for the people living at "The Ranch" and today was no exception!  We bowled this morning, which is always fun!  I bowled decently, but not as well as I wanted to.  I had a decent series, but I can't remember exactly what I bowled!  We had 23 bowlers this morning...and I did win one of the poker hands!!  For lunch we went to Mugs & Jugs (sort of a takeoff of Hooters)...food was good, atmosphere was good, but the girls were a little tackier than Hooters!!  They had a Tuesday special of BOGO fajitas - they were very good!  I wish they would have served salsa with them, though. 

We didn't get home from lunch until about 2:00 so Dave started painting right away.  He got the bedroom done and back together, so we can sleep in our regular bed tonight!  Neither one of us slept well last night.  It looks really nice.  Now, however, we need to go shopping for some curtains and we still have to paint the furniture white. 

Tonight was bingo.  No one at our table won.  Losers!!  More later...

Great day!

Dave and I went to the bowling alley this morning for more instruction.  I hope that tomorrow we'll be able to do as well as we did during our instruction time this morning.  Both of us improved a lot from last week!  Dave started painting the bedroom this afternoon.  He's got about half of it done - but everything from the room is piled HIGH on the bed, so we won't be able to sleep there tonight!  It's a good thing we have a second bedroom now!  I may just sleep in my chair - I seem to be able to sleep there really well. 

We had a nice shower here this afternoon and evening.  I don't know how much rain we got, but we needed it anyway so it was good!  I rode my bike up to the rec hall to play 7s from Hell...and I held an umbrella too!  So I didn't get very wet!  I actually got some decent cards tonight!  Coreen and I beat Ann & Betty...those two ladies clobbered Linda & I last week! 

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Super Bowl Sunday

Today was one of those hot, muggy Florida days.  The sun wasn't that intense, thank Goodness, or it would really have been hot!  It's 9:00 PM and it's still 70 here!! 

We went to church this morning, where they were celebrating their 46th anniversary.  Our church at home is over 150 years old...such a difference! 

Good game (so far), good halftime (IMHO), some great commercials (America with Clint Eastwood), some good commercials, and some just so-so. Now come on Eli and company...let's get going!! We went up to the rec hall for supper - great pot luck! There was no way I wanted to watch the game up there - just way too much noise! I like to watch the game! I couldn't figure out how we'd even see the commercials! So Dave and I came home and have watched the game from here. He's on his computer and I'm on mine. Fun evening!!

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Fun Fun Fun

We started out pretty early this morning - at least pretty early for Florida!  We were up at the rec hall by 8 this morning.  We had a bake sale and a street sale this morning.  We took 3 dozen cookies and came home with a lemon pie and 2 large blueberry muffins...as well as a 50 cent bag (kind of like a beach bag) and 25 cents for about 8 cereal bowls!  One of the ladies here in the park is going home this spring (for good) so Dave bought some fertilizer and some trailer wash stuff for about $4.  Then we took off for Sarasota where we attended a craft sale.  There we got some towels to hang in our kitchen, a coin purse made with a measuring tape for the closure, a dish rag, a scuffie, and a half pint of apricot jam!  Dave got the orange tree trimmed for Dad and Roberta and I supervised. 

Tonight we went with Bob & Ann to Hooters in John's Pass...good food and wonderful views.  We saw dolphins on the way there, too!  I plan to return to John's Pass - fun little area shops!!  When we got home, we served lemon pie and then made a grape salad for tomorrow's Super Bowl gathering.  Now we're sitting here relaxing!!  I feel a little better, but I'm coughing a little more...tomorrow's another day - hope I feel even better!!

Dave just got on the Iowa State website and found out the Cyclone men beat Oklahoma at Oklahoma - they're 17-6 and 7-3 in the Big 12!!  Plus the women beat Texas!  Way to go, Cyclones!!

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Friday night

I felt a little better this morning, but by afternoon I was fading fast!  I went in to lay down for a while, but just when I got to sleep Dave came home and woke me up...:(   I slept in my chair last night - I tried to sleep in bed, but I kept coughing.  When I'm sitting up a little bit I don't cough as much. 

This evening I baked some cookies for tomorrow's bake sale.  Some of them broke, though - darn!  I guess Dave and I'll just have to eat those!!  I'm hoping I feel well enough to go to Sarasota with Dave tomorrow, but if not I'll stay here and take it easy.  Sun'n'Fun is having their craft sale tomorrow morning and I always enjoy going to it.  Plus I need to return a couple pairs of shorts to Bealls.  I liked the way they fit, but they were shorter than I like them.  I hope I can find some Bermuda-type shorts someplace soon...mine are starting to get a little thin!!

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OK, so I'm really sick!!!

I felt awful when  I got up this morning, so I called my dr's office - his nurse told me that since I was wheezing and had lung congestion, I should see a dr down here...now what!!???  Dave mentioned it to the guys this morning and Ann's brother suggested I go to a Walgreens down here - they had a "dr" on site.  So I went.  She wasn't a doctor - she was a nurse practioner.  I didn't have to wait though - I got right in.  She told me I still have sinus infection - the one under my right eye is clear full.  I also have bronchitis and a fever - I knew I was sick!!!  Guess what - now I'm on my 3rd round of antibiotics, along with prednisone and Mucinex DM this time.  I sure hope this works...if not, I'll probably be in the hospital with pneumonia.

Dave, Bob & Ron worked pulling up a floor in a ladies home today.  Then they started laying new laminate.  They struggled a lot with it...I guess 12 mil is a little hard to get down - there's no flex in it.  They started at 8:30 this morning and are going back at 8:30 tomorrow morning, hopefully to finish.  I didn't do much of anything - I actually slept a lot after I took my drugs!  I'm going to take it easy tomorrow too and then maybe I'll feel like going to Maury's on Saturday.  We'll see.  More later...

I'm SICK of this sinus issue!!  I've had two rounds of antibiotics and Tuesday I felt fine...finally. 
Wednesday I woke up feeling like doggy doodoo again! I just can't seem to get rid of the sinus drainage and subsequent cough! 

I don't know what I didn't share this picture with you the other day.  This is the cow and calf that I talked about - manatees that swam under our observation deck...you can see the shadows of the people standing on the deck, too.  There's another young manatee behind the "mama" here. 

 

Today was coffee at the rec hall.  The guys went up and set up the tables and made the coffee.  The bakery we get the donuts from shorted us 6 apple fritters and 4 donuts, so Ron made a quick run the Dunkin' Donuts to replace them.  We had a good group of people today and it didn't take long to clean up!!  Everyone pitches in - even people who don't have to! 

After the meeting, Dave & Bob worked at putting either vinyl tiles or laminate in the three closets.  It got hot today, so by mid-afternoon when they got done,, they needed a gin and tonic to cool down!!  Poor guys!  Before Bob got here, Dave started pulling off wallpaper border and baseboard in the bedroom - yay!!  Since the closet doors are off, he's planning to paint in there maybe tomorrow!!  It's going to be nice to get rid of that green!!

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