Taking the Good with the Not so Good

I am just about ready to forget blogging! The program had a glitz and wouldn't allow me in! But here I am now.

Our time is almost up here in the deep South; I am excited about seeing all my family and friends; however, I am unhappy about leaving my snowbird friends. We have had such a great time together: dining out, traveling, exercising, playing Bingo, going to church together, enjoying concerts, picnicking in the park, watching the rains from inside the RV, being able to look out each day and see lots of people walking the street and stopping to chat, walking across the street to the flea market, riding to the post office on the golf cart with a good friend, riding our bikes down to the corner drugstore, and on and on and on. Being at home is also great, especially to be with family. I just would like to be able to see a friend from my window and enjoy sitting in the sun or shade with them.

We will soon be packing on and that I dread. It's much more difficult to do when we have been stationary for such a long time. The worst part, however, is unloading everything when we do get home. Oh well, we take the good with the not so good.

Departures are Depressing

We started our day with a beautiful morning for walking to church and the service was wonderful as always. We will really miss our Florida pastor; what a caring man he is. He calls everyone at the church by first name every time he sees any of us (I wish I had such a talent). Jon has been our pastor ever since we have been spending time in Florida (this is our 12th year), so we do consider him our pastor/preacher. In fact, he has even visited our hometown on 2 occasions (he attended the church of my brother when he came).

The rains arrived this afternoon around 3 and created a small pond in the street. I love the rain though and I enjoyed listening to the heavenly musical sounds.

More and more people are departing our park causing unhappy feelings; last night we had 61 vacant sites and that will continue to grow; however, we are having a few over nighters come in. I was happy to hear from some of our friends who have left and emailed me that they arrived home safely. Next week, we will begin our packing up; we haven't decided our definite departure date but it will be before April 4.

Another week has passed since I blogged. It seems that I am just staying too busy to get on blogger; I'm trying to get as much in before we leave as possible and just neglect to write often. Having said that, I will try to write more often, even if it's just a couple of sentences.

Yesterday, we had a wedding in the park: one of the young ladies who works in the office decided to get married at the gazebo so that people in the park could enjoy the afternoon. Jill was a very lovely bride and her husband was quite handsome. Some of the ladies in the park baked the wedding cake while others decorated the area. They left the gazebo in green golf cart (for St Patrick's Day) pulling lots of noisy cans behind. Much of the day's events were shown on the local TV station.

Last night was a Bingo night; in our group, only my sister-in-law won one game.

Today we went to Okeechobee Lake and drove the many miles around it. We stopped along the way and observed the harvesting of a large sugar cane field. It was very interesting to learn that they harvest the cane, grind it and place it in cars similar to train cars. After that, the burn the fields and the sugar cane comes back. Evidently, the farms are owned by coops because they are huge.

All in all, this has been another good week, a bit cool today, however.

Limited Vocabulary: Sign of Limited Intelligence

I can't believe it has so long since I last blogged! It isn't that I have been that busy either; I just have been spending most of my spare time on Facebook instead. Sorry, readers.

It has finally started warming up in Florida; in fact, we have been able to wear our shorts during the middle of the day before it begins cooling down. Not much new has been happening here other than the warm weather. People are beginning to pack up their belongings as they prepare to return to the North. I believe there are 28 vacant sites here tonight (well, it was at 6:00 PM).

Bingo was fun again tonight but I didn't win; my good friend from Indiana did win and I was happy for her, especially since she hasn't won very much at all. Tomorrow night, we will try our hand at the adjacent park, hoping that perhaps one of us will win a game. They have higher prizes there too.

Some of us went to see the Broadway play, "Jersey Boys" last Saturday night. I, for one, was very disappointed. The music was wonderful, all great hits of the early 60's. What I didn't appreciate was the language! Their favorite word was one very ugly four-letter word, a word that just wasn't necessary to the story. I must have been very sheltered in my youth because I don't recall people using that word in the 60's. I was also told that anyone who uses that vulgar language had a very limited vocabulary. It certainly makes me think they aren't so intelligent after all.

Cool Capers

Nothing much happening in Florida other than watching people walking by our RV all bundled up. Most everyone is staying hunkered down in their RV's like us. Hubby is now leaving on his bike to ride down to the Post Office (only 1 and 1/2 blocks away) but on the bike that's tough: one way riding will be against the strong up-to-30 MPH winds. The temp is holding in the low 50's today but with the winds it feels much cooler. In other words, the only capers anyone is involved in are very cool capers. We will be going out to eat dinner with all our neighboring friends since one will be leaving tomorrow and another is leaving next week. Time is drawing short here and there have been so few days for summer clothes here.

I really needed several more sweatshirts with me, especially since there are none available around here. Maybe we will have at least a week of warm weather before we leave. Saturday is our park picnic and it's supposed to warm up for that. I surely hope that it will because the picnic is not a good day to participate in a cool caper.