The Northeast, or the eastern portion of the U.S., has been having BAD weather. The record blizzard of the past weekend was to blame for a lot of discomfort.
Florida should have been exempt from it. BUT a by product of their snow-wealth was - our next door neighbor, Bob's, knee replacement surgery Monday. His surgeon postponed it. He was stuck in Washington DC. Sometimes - It isn't easy being Floridians when there's a blizzard going on in the northeast.
Nevertheless, last week was a good week. We were busy each day. Monday we went to see Capital Steps - loved it. Don't know how they keep it relevant. Same idea as Saturday Night Live. These troupes travel throughout the country making fun of Congress. They started 30 years ago at a Congressional Christmas party and were such a hit; they've been doing it ever since.
Tuesday we had breakfast at Peaches with our friends from Bath: Carolyn and John, Cindy and Carol.
This restaurant is very popular - it's open only for breakfast and lunch and there's always a wait. Forget it on the weekend. Don't go then. Unless you really like waits.
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Wednesday I met Carolyn at The Plantation Golf and Country Club Restaurant. She lives in one of their communities. Our church women's group was having their monthly luncheon meeting. We met some really nice women. I recognized some of them on Thursday night when Paul and I went to hear the Doane College Choir program at church. Forty young people from Nebraska with wonderful voices. If you have a chance, please check out YouTube. They were magnificent. Brought tears to my eyes.
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Friday we took our neighbors with us to the Venice Moose Club Fish fry. We were pleasantly surprised to see that they had open tables. Of course, we went very early; the place was still crowded, but had the open tables. Two weeks in a row we tried to get in the Englewood Moose, but the parking lot was absolutely full; they had cars parked on the grass, at the bank next door. We went elsewhere, so this week we didn't even try.
Next week is The Big Week. Drumroll.... Our new kitchen will begin! Monday they deliver our new kitchen cabinets, rip out our old decrepit ones, and take down the ceiling. And thus begins the adventure. I hunted all over for boxes yesterday and finally got them in Publix. Paul's been emptying the cabinets yesterday and today; he's also been working on the ceiling lights.
My father's grapefruit tree that he planted the year he died, was cut down a couple of years ago. It's growing again. When we came back to Fla last year, Paul noticed this scraggly plant coming up in the same spot as the old tree. He was rather indignant; he thought someone had planted it. . But after we realized that it was the same tree, we have had fun watching it grow. Don't know if it'll ever produce fruit, or if it'll be good fruit, but we'll see.
On the same subject: It's strange to think that there were two decent sized trees in the back of us, but now there's none. I can remember several years ago NeeNee and Brenan climbed them. We really could use some. We've thought, but nothing hits us just right. (except the sun) which is in our eyes at sunset.
Subject change: Did I mention that I got Paul a "real" book for Christmas? He loves John Grisham. The reason? The kindle book was maybe a dollar less. I couldn't see spending that amount of money on "air."
I still think it's neat - getting the book in the blink of an eye. I didn't have to get in the car and go to the bookstore. How much better could things get? The first time I got a Kindle book it was a Dean Koontz book and cost $7.99. Now, his books are $14.99.
When I first got my kindle, I did it for novelty, getting a book quickly, not having to make space for it. When I look back at all the books (over a hundred, I'm sure - I've never counted them. Maybe I'll do that some time.) I think of all they'd take up. When he was done and said it was good, I read it.
You can share Kindle books, but it's a pain. Reading a real book - It was fun to turn the pages and read an actual one. I used the book cover as a bookmark. It was fun to actually see how much I'd read and had to still read. ( Kindle will tell you the percentage of the book read. It's not the same as actually seeing it). An aside: I did find myself tapping the book to turn the page. . two times.
So what did all this teach me? I've decided I'm going to get some real books every once in a while. As I said - why pay for air? There are still lots of books $3.99 and less. Some of those are as much fun to read as the Bestsellers, but I still like to get the ones that everyone has agreed are good. Plus then I can share. Anyone want to read a good book? Paul and I just finished one.
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