No Manatees For You!

Flowers by the office.

The weather has been so very perfect. When the last "cold" front came thru the humidity went with it. The temps have been in the mid to upper 70's going to 81 this weekend. We have to turn the air conditioner on when the sun shines on the front of the coach. It really heats up in here. But we are able to turn it off at night and sleep with the windows open. We were talking about our weather yesterday and how back at home during the summer, we don't have such a long stretch of perfect weather. It's really been so nice. More of the same for next week.

Herb and Max by the Moonlight.

I think we may have lucked out this weekend too! As of this morning our noisey neighbor behind us isn't here yet. He was arriving on Thursday nights. We are very lucky cause this is a 3 day holiday weekend down here. I was kinda hoping they would be here though. They smoked meat all last weekend which drove me nuts. It smelled like the State Fair! I wanted Herb to go over and talk to him about his smokers (he has 2 of them). I told Herb if he smokes meat this weekend I would be going to Amazon and have one shipped Next Day Air!  But it looks like this won't be necessary.

Moon over Campers.

On Monday, Valentines Day, some people planned an ice cream social. Again, you know we were in line for this one. We got to meet some of the people here. Had a very nice time. They invited us to their potluck dinner on Wednesday. Every Wednesday they get together with each couple bringing a dish to pass. We had just found a new favorite spaghetti sauce, Classico Spicy Basil, so we decided to take a pot of that. We also got some Italian sausages, removed the casings, cut into smaller pieces, fried it up and added it to the noodles and sauce. If I say so myself, and I will, it was delicious! We also brought a loaf of french bread. It's a good thing we brought this cause most people brought salad things or dessert. Ours was like the only main course item. Next Wednesday I think we'll bring some tips and noodles.

Another Beautiful Sunset.

So for the most part it's been pretty normal. Get up in the morning, have coffee and watch the Today Show. Eat a bowl of cereal. Then we go for a walk, maybe sit by the water and look for manatees, sit outside and read my Stephen King and fall asleep for a few minutes (sometimes I wake up with my mouth hanging open), eat dinner, go for a walk, watch TV and go to bed. Just enjoying life warm.

Next week on Tuesday or Wednesday we are planning on a little road trip.  We are going to head south and take a look at several campgrounds.  We are thinking that we would like to come down here again for February and then probably to to Ft Myers again in March.  January and February can be cold down here so the further south we go the better our chances for warm weather.

We went for fish again last night to D'Hookers. We had good luck again. It was delicious. I had a Mahi sandwich and It was huge. Herb got half of it. We've not had the same good luck with our pizza, however. So tonight we decided to go for Mexican at Senor Friholes. Very good choice. The restaurant was on the water and we were there to see the sunset.

Back to the manatees. I've been taking my camera along when we go for walks during the day. I'm hoping to get a photo or video of the manatees so that I can post it. No luck yet. We've seen about 4 of them but they never surface. I'll keep trying. Some people on kayaks said the manatees came right up to their boats and they were able to pet them.

And Yet Another!

Oh, and speaking of walking. We went for a walk last night after dark. The area we were walking in didn't have any street lights and the roads in here are filled with speed bumps. Well the night before we were walking and Herb kept tripping on them in the dark. So when we got to this area again I turned to him to remind him not to trip. Need I say more? I never got a word out of my mouth. Whoooof, down I went. Never even saw it. Dropped the dog leash and Max ran forward. He doesn't like it when I drop the leash. Scares him. Anyway, no scrapes or anything. All is well.

Tonight no walking. We rented Dispicable Me. Now there's an exciting Saturday night!

Hope you are all well.  Please post comments!