HB 2 Me!

I have had a wonderful birthday..  I didn't get up  until about 7:45 and this morning I got to watch several episodes of Downton Abbey before lunch!  We had a very light lunch and then ran to Hammerhead Hardware for a bit.  This afternoon I watched more of Downton Abbey before we had to get ready to go to pasta night at the clubhouse.  We had spaghetti, meatballs, sausages, and ziti all made from scratch by Italians here in the park!  Very good!!  For dessert, there was birthday cake (courtesy of Dave), ice cream, strawberry pie (courtesy of Ann), lemon meringue pie, brownies, fudge, cake and cookies - almost anything you could want!

We came home and I watched another episode of DA, and now I'm watching my Cyclones beat TCU for an almost perfect day!!  Plus I heard from over 300 of my friends who wished me a happy birthday.  Great memories!

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Cooler today

Dave and I took Babe & Jewel to the Legion today.  Unfortunately, the sun didn't shine so it wasn't quite as nice there as normal.  It was still nice, though.  There were 24 of us who had some connection to The Ranch at the Legion today!  We got our meal done and left before any sprinkles started.  As we were driving down Gulf Blvd, it started raining and even tonight it was misting.  Babe & Jewel enjoyed going and since they're here without a car, hopefully they'll go with us again.  We really enjoy this couple!

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Dentist visit #2

Today was my return trip to the dentist.  This time I was in the chair for over 4 hours!!  So, it was another marathon!  He first seated my two crowns and my bridge which ended up taking about an hour.  Then he did a crown prep on the other side and that took 3 hours because they had to do 6 impressions before they got one that was good enough to make the crown with.  By the time I got home I was exhausted!

Tomorrow is a Legion day!

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Warm Wednesday

We started our day at coffee this morning.  I had a bad night last night.  I woke up at 2:00 with severe acid reflux - probably from the jerk chicken I ate at noon!  I ended up coming out to my chair and sleeping sitting up!  I did very well that way until Dave came to wake me up after he got up.  I didn't get rid of that acid reflux until after I drank a diet Coke with my breakfast!  It was a weird feeling, but I'm glad it's gone.

After coffee, we left for Bradenton to have lunch with Dave's sister, Pat, and Roberta.  We got to see the progress they've made on their condo - it's going to be beautiful!  Then we went to The Beach House for lunch.  I had chicken salad, which was very good.  Dave ate my fries with his salad.  It was such a gorgeous day that we sat right by the  water in the sun!  The Beach House always has a flavored bread and today's was pina colada bread!  Talk about scrumptious!!

I played cards tonight and won and we re-listed our house in O-town today!

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B & B

Finally, I had a good day at bowling AND I had a good night at bingo!  At bowling today, I had the high game of everyone.  I had a 191 and a 452 series.  Roger led the men with a 170 and a 510 series.  So he beat me in series, but I got high game - wahoo!  For lunch we went to Rumba's and sat outside.  It was such a gorgeous day - in fact, it was hot out!  Especially hot when you're sitting in the sun eating jerk chicken!  Food was wonderful, too.

This evening at bingo, I got to yell bingo twice!  My earnings tonight were $37, so I can play for at least 4 more weeks!

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Adventure

Dave and I went on an adventure today to Myakka River State Park.  On the way to there, we saw a pair of Sand Hill Cranes and 2 babies!  Sweet.  We were probably about 15 feet from them!

Once we got to the park, we got on the air boat and saw hundreds of alligators!  We also saw some cool birds and even a deer.  It was a good day!

Beautiful today - up in the 80's with lots of humidity!!

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Warmth finally!

It's been a long time since we've been this warm!  Finally we had an 80 degree day - with humidity!  It felt so good to be outside in the sun and actually be warm again!  Thank you, God!

We had a wonderful day.  We went to church services and then we met up with Sudi, Howard, Becky, Jim, Nancy, and Rod at Bubba Gump's at Madeira Beach.  Good food and good company.  Nice to see my classmates again!

We even got to see a couple of dolphins and I got a picture of a pelican flying over my head!  I've tried and tried to get a good shot of a flying bird and I finally got it.  Dave's much better at it than I am!

This dolphin was really close to the shore - just hanging out today!

Here's my flying pelican!  If you zoom in, you can see a drop of water on the tip of its beak!  Love how big their wing span is!

Tonight we had the awards potluck for our Senior Olympics.  Again good food and good friends!  Some of the ladies stayed to play cards, but I didn't want to tonight.  I just wanted to come home!

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