Last Week Flew By, and This Week's the same!

A week has gone by since I last wrote, and the new room is beginning to show possibilities of being completed.  It's been a busy week too. 

 Thursday we went on a boat ride with two friends, Bob and Sue, teacher friends  from Bath, plus Carol O and her sister Patti and brother-in-law Joe.  Bob and Sue have a pontoon boat that's used for cruisin' the inland waterway and fishing. 

We had a delightful sail from the historic Train Station ( it has a dock on the river) and sailed up to Casey Key, about an hour's sail,  passing under several drawbridges. Just as we set out, two bridges were up because a huge long barge passed underneath. It carried some long, long pipes, much longer than could go by road.  The drawbridges really cause traffic delays when they're open.  You could see the long line-up of cars on either side of the them.   When we yelled to the guys on the barge, where were they going? - they yelled  back  that they were on their way to Naples.  That's a long way.

Our sailing goal was an hour's ride to  the Casey Key Fishhouse  where Stephen King sometimes hangs out - no sight of him - just a picture of him with the owner sitting outside.  The Fishhouse had a colorful grass-roofed Tiki Bar, and a restaurant off to the left. We had a really good meal; we took a couple of pictures of us on Stephen's "seat", and then started back. and on the way we sailed between the North and South Jetties and got another perspective from the usual land-view.  We didn't sail out into the Gulf.   We turned around. Beyond the jetties, the water looked very choppy.

Bob and I went to the Clubhouse Thursday evening for the Annual Meeting.  I drove.  I'd forgotten that I'd never used the SUV at night.  When we got outside, I had no idea how to turn the headlights on.  Bob, an old driver ed teacher, came around and turned them on for me.  Stupidity has no age limit, I guess.  I imagine I'd have found them eventually.  Let's hope so.

My birthday was Friday and I was lucky to celebrate it for two whole days!  Carol O. went out to dinner with us  for a fish fry  Friday night.  Bill, Epril, Carol and Alice couldn't make it Friday night,  so they went out to lunch with us on Saturday. Bob was with us both times.   Paul picked a beautiful restaurant called Farlow's on the Water in Englewood.  We came back to our house for coffee and cake and  brownies too which Epril brought. Time for a "sugar high!" 

Bill is now working days for his medical transcription company which makes it  much nicer for them.  Epril goes to work at 7:00 AM,  finishing  up at 3:00 PM.     Now they have their evenings to themselves.  He has Saturdays off. 

Bob has gone to Christine's this week.  His grandchildren, Susan and Tommy, are off this week.  Bob left this morning.  It's a four-hour trip to Melbourne, just right across the state to the eastern shore. 

The room is coming along just great.  The little details always seem to take the longest!  And we have a really slow guy here the past couple of days putting up the walls, doing the mudding.  But it looks good.  Paul and I look at the room and consider all the possibilities - color, flooring. . . we're putting in tile.  We've done a lot of windowshopping at Lowe's and Home Depot so far.   I asked him how he feels about doing all the rest of this and he says he can't wait to get started when the men leave!  I guess that's a good sign.  Bless him. What a guy.

  Right now he's out in the carport making a stand for my piano lamp to put on the piano so my lamp is high enough for the music to be below it.  I've been putting books under it to raise it up, and it looked pretty awful.  He just finished it, and it looks really nice. 

Got an e-mail from Dorothy.  Alaina is graduating from the University of Rochester in May.  Dorothy's making plans for the graduation and wants to know who'll be there.  From what I understand,  unlike DJ's last year, she can invite as many people as she'd like.  Then in June,  we have Maddie's and Lee's graduation from high school.  I'm so glad I've been around to see all these kids grow up.  I always thank the Good Lord.  For many things.

So that's all the news from this neck o' the woods.  How're things goin' in yours?  BTW we hope that Ray's feeling better every day.  Our hearts and prayers go to him.  (heart surgery a couple of weeks ago.) Plus Bob with his chemo.