Another cold one!

I think our high today got up to 47 - that's a long stretch from "normal" which is around 73!  It's to be 61 tomorrow and then 80 by the weekend!  Yay!  I even wore jeans to bingo and capris to bowl...so you know it's cold!!  Dave finally started the furnace this morning - sure glad it works!!  Our bedroom is cold, but that's good for sleeping!

I didn't do so well at either bowling or bingo today.  I was close to bowling very well and I was close in bingo, but close doesn't count in either of those games.  I wonder if we'll shuffle tomorrow?

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Cold here!

I'm not going to complain...I'm just stating a fact!  It's 48 here right now.  The day started out really nice, but it dropped like a ton of bricks shortly after noon.  We might even have frost here - what's up with that?  The good part of this is that in a day or two, it'll be back up in the 70s!  I think it got clear up to -5 in O-town...now THAT'S COLD!

I played cards tonight, but my team all had horrible cards all evening!!  We lost by over 6,000 points.  Right now I'm watching the Rose Bowl.  I've got mixed emotions.  I've always liked FSU, but I thought they did some dirty things in the first half.  I can't stand Auburn because I don't like the SEC...so I guess I'll go to bed and check the score tomorrow!

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Fun Sunday!

Church was good today - I actually enjoyed the sermon this morning!  After church we came home and ate the rest of our burritos and then we took off for the power plant in Tampa.  When the water starts to get cold, the manatees flock to this body of water where it's about 81 degrees instead of 65 in the Gulf!  Today there were hundreds of manatees so it was great viewing!  Unfortunately it's not easy to get a good picture, but that didn't keep me from trying!

 As you can see, it was a beautiful day here - about 83 degrees and no humidity - very little wind.

 Each of those "bumps" are manatees!

 The dorsal fin you see is a small shark - about 3.5 feet.  They don't bother the manatees.

 There were hundreds of them!!

These fish are mullets and there were thousands of them!!

It was a fun day!  Beautiful weather and great sights.

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Boring day!

I'm sorry - I'm here in a beautiful place with really nice people  and I'm bored today!  I believe this may be the only time I've been bored since we've been coming here.  I'm pretty sure it was because it was gray out most of the day.  Hopefully I'll be better tomorrow!  I didn't have anything I needed to do today and tomorrow we'll go to church and then decide what we're doing after that.  Dave is working on a project here and also helping out Gary so everything will depend on how he gets along.

We did go out for lunch today.  We went to Moe's Southwest Grill - I really, really like that place.  I have been so  hungry for Mexican food and this place has good burritos!  It's kind of like Subway where you pick what you want on your burrito!  That was fun!

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Brrrrr.....

It's already down to 46 here - brrr!  It's 33 at home so there's something wrong with this picture!  I had to dig out the jeans tonight.

I worked at the clubhouse today trying to organize books.  I have a whole card table full of books that need to be gotten rid of - they're old or badly soiled or stupid books - like how to defy aging in women!  I've also got a section of political books and most of them are very conservative!  So the hardbacks are all cataloged and I've got the paperbacks to do on another cold day!

I also went to Best Buy with Bob & Ann today - bought a 24" LG TV for $129.  Great buy!  Then we went to Sam's Club - I am not a fan of Sam's.  It seems you walk and walk and walk!    Tonight I played cards and got beat again.

Dave helped Bill put down some vinyl tile today while I was up at the clubhouse.

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What day is this anyway?

I'll sure be glad to get back into a routine because I can't remember what day it is!!  We've had a mixed up schedule for two weeks because of Christmas falling on a Wednesday (and New Year's Day, too), so I don't know if this is Thursday or Friday or what!!  I do know that it's Jan. 2nd because Bob & Ann got back today.  Both of my brothers came down to see us on their bikes...(I've gained a brother - Gary is now my other brother, in case you were wondering!)

Boy, did it ever rain here this afternoon.  It poured cats and dogs for a while!  Right now it's still 67 and we've got windows open, but a cold front is supposed to arrive and tomorrow is to be only in the mid-50's and windy...brrr.  Then Saturday and Sunday back to the 70's!

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New Year's Day

Today was a dreary New Year's Day, but at least it wasn't as cold as it is in O-town!  It rained off and on a lot of the day, but the temps were near 70 anyway.  Tomorrow is supposed to be in the 70s but Friday is supposed to only be about 57 degrees and windy - yuck!

We started the new year out with a brunch at the clubhouse.  Evidently the Red Hat ladies host a brunch for the park and today was no different!  We had several different egg dishes, monkey bread, bread pudding, bagels, eclairs, mimosas, etc.  It was very good and there were about 65 people in attendance!

This afternoon, after going to Walmart for a few things, we watched the Outback Bowl with Iowa & LSU.  Iowa waited a bit long to get started, so they couldn't catch up to LSU.   Then tonight we played cards - I had terrible cards all hands but the first one!  We lost!

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