Old friends

Dave and I went to Port Charlotte today to see a childhood friend of Dave's.  Terry and his wife, Ann, made us feel very welcome in their new retirement home.  We had a wonderful lunch  in their lanai right by the swimming pool.  We enjoyed our afternoon immensely.  Hopefully we can do this again.

This week coming up is going to be a stressful and busy one!  Dave's dad's 90th birthday party is Thursday and starting Tuesday we're going to have company, company, and more company!

Tonight we're sitting here watching the Indian Hills Warriors play in the championship game at the NJCAA tournament.  It's not looking real good for the Hills team.  We've been down the entire game and can't buy a 3 point basket.  Right now we're down 6 points, but we've been down by as much as 12...so there's still hope at least.

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Win #1 and Win #3

Yay and Yay!  Both the Warriors and the Cyclones won this evening...and so did I at cards!  Hopefully both teams can keep it up.  The Warriors play Jones Junior College out of Mississippi tomorrow night for the championship and the Cyclones play North Carolina on Sunday!

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My day off

Dave went to Sarasota today, so I call this my day off.  I had a good day!  I slept until after 9:00, which was good because I didn't go to sleep until after 2:00 AM.  I vacuumed the floors, swiffered them, and then about 1:00 sat down to watch the IHCC basketball game.  About 1:30 I went to Bob's to make sure he could watch the game on his computer feed to his TV.  I watched the rest of the game with Him and Gary.  With 1 minute left in the game, the NJCAA website had problems and we missed the end of the game.  We were ahead by 2 with 1 minute left.  South Plains evidently made a 3 and Lester Mefford made 2 free throws with 2 seconds left for us to win it 71-70.   Whew!  Another nail biter.

I took my bike ride and then waited for Dave to get home.  He had an exciting day.  No, the fish weren't biting.  Instead one of the guys fishing near them caught this:

That's a shark - Dave said somewhere 4-5 feet long.  He wasn't happy about being caught!  You don't see that every day!

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Wonderful Wednesday

It was another beautiful day today.  We went to coffee this morning and then shuffled after coffee.  I won my first game, but I lost the next two.  I lost to Ann first.  All I had to do was score, and instead I hit her puck and as a result she scored instead of me.  I couldn't believe I did that!  Oh well!  I beat Fred the last time I played him, but today he clobbered me!

Tonight at cards, Ann & I were partners and we won!!

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Tuesday

It was a nice day here - a little on the chilly side, but nice regardless.  We started our day off at the bowling alley.  We've only got 2 more bowling days.  I started our pretty good today.  I had a 147 and a 159.  My 3rd game was only a 119 - I really struggled in that game.  I ended up with a 425 series, so I felt good about that!

We went to lunch at The Dugout.  It seems to be everyone's favorite.  Good food and good service, good prices.

We took short naps after lunch and then watched the IHCC tournament game.  We were down by 16 points and came back to tie the game in regulation.  Ended up in 2 overtimes and we won!  One of our guys broke his arm and has to have surgery on it tomorrow.

Tonight at bingo, I won $12.  I just came so close on the big games - darn it!

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Happy St Patty's Day

We had a good day today.  I baked a cake this morning.  We were supposed to bring desserts to the potato bar tonight.  It was a delicious meal!  I love baked potatoes!  We had all kinds of toppings - broccoli, ham & asparagus, salsa, chili, mushrooms, cheese, butter, sour cream - you get the idea!  Great job!!

I've got pix, but I watched DWTS when I got home from playing cards so I didn't get them uploaded to my computer.  I finally won tonight at cards, too!!   Oh, we won the "Share the Wealth" pot tonight - that's a first!!

It's raining cats and dogs out right now, so I'm going to bed!

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Beautiful day

Yesterday we saw dolphins and today we saw alligators!  When I got up this morning, Dave said he'd like to go to Myakka River State Park to take an airboat ride to see the alligators.   Unfortunately it was very windy and alligators don't like the wind.  So, we saw some alligators, but not bunches like we would have if it hadn't been windy.  We also saw some of the birds around the park, but again because it was windy, they weren't out in the numbers they usually are.

After we left the park, we stopped at the Sarasota National Cemetery.  Beautiful, serene place.  People were among the stones reading or sitting in meditation.  I was amazed at the symmetry of the stones.  Any way you looked, they were in straight rows.

It was a wonderful day.  Thank you, God, for all this beauty.

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