Blogs from Clermont, Florida, United States, North America - page 3

Concert at Sea World Saturday the 13th was a lay back day. We had been doing a lot of running the last few days so it was nice to wake up when I felt like it and move slowly. Isn't that what retirement is all about! The hawks came back to the neighborhood briefly and squawked and carried on to let me know they were here. I practiced catching them in flight with my new lens and was able to get a couple nice shots. The moon was visible too, it was just begging for it's image to be captured. At 5:30 we went to the rec hall to serve strawberry short cake to the people that were coming in for the Valentine dance. It is a fund raiser for the improvement of the dog park, ... read more

Lazy Days in the Park The last few days have been leisure ones, grocery shopping, visiting, and taking longer walks. I have read some of my book, enjoyed the sun and especially enjoy feeling stronger. We of course, had a Super Bowl party at Kat's house where she made a new recipe with crescent roll dough, chili mix and hot dogs. Kim brought vegetables and a dip, Ginnie dessert and I brought chicken wings with dipping sauce. We had mixed loyalties about our favorite teams but we all enjoyed the game and some of the commercials. The ultra sound of the baby was the majority favorite, mine was the wiener dogs. I invited our group for breakfast yesterday but it was too cold to eat outside in the morning so we decided to have pancakes and ... read more

Sea World Couldn't figure out why my alarm didn't go off this morning, till I looked at the volume and discovered it was turned off. I had 40 min to get up, dressed, have breakfast, feed and walk Oscar to be ready for my ride to Sea World. We got there as the doors were opening and thank goodness the line for tickets was very short. The weather was cool this morning and rain was predicted for the afternoon, so for a Saturday the park was not busy. We headed to the dolphin show and got great seats close to the front but not too close where we'd get wet. The theater quickly filled and the show was terrific. Pictures. They introduced 2 Pilot Whales that were rescued as babies and unable to be released into ... read more

Blog 02-04-16 We are a pretty Awesome group! Kat and I had arranged to go to Kim's house at 10 am to try to help her with a golf cart. She stored it here in FL last year and the batteries roasted, rendering the machine inoperable. She got new batteries and a friend helped her install them and the cart worked fine but the batteries would not recharge. Oh, what to do! She called a local repair place and they told her how to change the wiring and said it was simple. Well, maybe for them. Kim had taken pictures of the wires before she removed the old batteries so we referred to them and used our logic to put red to red, black to black and don't forget to attach the connecting wires to wire ... read more

Thousand Trails I left White Springs this morning about 8:20 am, really quite an accomplishment for me. I was driving to Clermont, FL about 2 1/2 hrs from here and I wanted to get there close to 11 because you had to find your site, no reservations, and I wanted to be near my friends. They had a perfect site for me already picked out and I got there in time to claim it. The whole campground is a nature preserve but this site backed up to trees and a huge field. I no sooner parked a visited a little when 6 red-shoulder hawks started having a territory war over the ground right behind me. Oh, there was screeching and dive bombing that lasted most of the afternoon. I really wanted to throw myself in a ... read more