Blogs from Wauchula, Florida, United States, North America

The One About Eating Too Much and Pee Our last lazy day in Wauchula, tomorrow we all break camp and separate for a while. Ginnie and house guest Joanne are off to Thousand Trails Orlando, Kathy and her sister DeeDee are off to Fort Desoto Park, on a spit of land at the tip of the Tampa/St Petersburg peninsula, and me off to see cousin Valerie in Palm Harbor. I look forward to catching up with her every year, and hope we can connect with my grammar and HS classmate Maureen Kelly. I have visions of lots of good seafood, Greek pastries, steak, etc., etc., etc. Yesterday we signed up to join the Thousand Trails caravan to the Lipizzaner Stallion winter home, which meant meeting at the Rec Hall at 8:30 for a 30 minute ride ... read more

The One About Good News and Nice Stories I wasn’t going to write today, but several things happened, and the writer in me knew I had to put this one story down before I forgot about it. Knowing we needed to be on the road about 11 to get to Orlando Airport to pick up Joanne, I lazed around, did a couple of chores, took Winston for a very long bike ride/walk, rearranged my rear cargo space one more time, and talked to neighbors. While I was making my bed, I looked out my window and saw the neighbor whose rig is behind Kathy’s sitting on the ground trying to get up. He was having difficulty, so I started out my door and around to help him up, when I noticed his lady, assuming wife, was ... read more

The One About Peaceful Lazy Days (get the pun….Peace River, Lazy Days????) The days have settled into the peaceful rhythm that I so enjoy on my Snowbird trip. I stay up until midnight, walking Winston at the last second so I can see the stars without any noise and limited light pollution. I sleep late (7:00 has become late), walk Winston again, eat breakfast, shower, then do some type of chore (reorganize closets, sweep, wash windows.) Lunch, General Hospital, crochet, Happy Hour, dinner, long girlie conversations, back to TV and writing or more crochet. I am very, very content. One night Ginnie and I did Bingo. $3 for 4 cards, 10 games. I didn’t need my new dauber, these thick, reusable cards had slides over the numbers. For 9 games the prizes were $15 to $17, ... read more

The One About Spending More Money I slept until 8:03. I remember waking up at 4 something, rolling over to relieve the pins and needles in my right arm, and didn’t wake up again until 8:03. I did stay up until midnight, so I guess that’s what is required of me to sleep past 6:00. Who cares, I’m on ‘vacation.’ Some ‘neighbors’ came over wanting a tour. I should charge admission!!! I need to make some money to defray my new expenses, need to start somewhere……laugh. It’s fun. I’m having a good time. Kathy spent the night away on her goonie adventure. Ginnie said I could borrow her car, as long as I got her a few groceries. I told her I would be gone a few hours, never expecting a few to turn into 3. ... read more

Settling in and enjoying the warmth Kat was up early to go to the rv dealer to pick up her new rig. I had to run out and snap a picture of her old rig so we can compare the old and new. It was cold out, 44 degrees, so I ran out said good bye and ran back in and back to bed. Kat is supposed to return tomorrow afternoon with her new rv after orientation and driving lessons. After coffee and GMA on the gorgeous new tv Oscar and I went out for a necessary walk. Back inside I had a phone call from Jane, my wonderful friend from home, to hear that it was 2 degrees in the Poconos. I couldn’t wait to brag that it was now almost 70 degrees and very ... read more