A Week with Gary & Audrey in FLORIDA

I thought that I would take you through a week with us! How is that for entertainment? Gary often begins his day with a long walk around in the park where we live. However, since I like to sleep in after many years of working, he takes another walk with me about 4:00 in the afternoon when it is warmer. As we return to our motorhome which is on the left side of this street just past the pick-up truck (see our Jeep?) , you can see another Ohioan in the first toned green motorhome on the left, just past the tree. They are from Columbiana and we have been fortunate to get acquainted with them. They also share their Morning Journal with us! He was the one who noticed our Ohio plates on the Jeep when we first arrived here, and pulled in behind us to say "Hello". While out for our walk on Wednesday evening, we felt we were racing the clouds (over Boots Music Hall in the park) to get our walk in before the rain began. It was a close call and it rained all the next day. It was a good day for cleaning inside and scrapbooking ! I am sure that it looks like a mess to you all, but I am thankful to have the space to do this. Some day I will have all of the boy's books done! I am showing you our neighbors homes as you come out of our door and turn left going clear around our motorhome . We really do feel that it is a nice neighborhood. Most of them are permanents. However, there are many in the park that are just snowbirds and will leave here shortly after we do in March. Our Ohio neighbor says that it will be dead around here then until fall brings them back again. We have a few lot numbers picked out that we would like to come back to. But I imagine that we will have to take what they give us as we will not be back here for a year and a half probably. There are several park models and fifth wheels and trailers for sale here in the park. They are not bad prices for a year round home or seasonal one either. When we are ready to settle down in a few years, we may consider one. Usually on Monday of each week we have gone to Webster FL to the largest Flea Market that we have ever seen! We have not walked clear through it in the two Mondays that we have been here. So I guess we will need to go again! The Flea Market and the parking fields are just about all there is to Webster, but it is a good experience. I almost bought a cut glass bowl. I say "almost" because when I saw his $110 price tag on a cut glass vase, I decided that I did not need it that bad (and then to make room for it???)! I also lost out on a nice sound bird cage on stand, as another woman came along and got in there first while I waited for Gary to get back from the car. I wanted it to paint white and put green plants in. It would have been beautiful! But then again, where to store it while traveling down the road?? It is best that Gary does carry all the money! Truly it is nice not to have to carry a purse. I have carried one very little and have not worn a watch since we left Ohio eight months ago. It is great!! I do carry the phone, even though it doesn't ring very often. It is my contact with the former world. Everyone must think that we are busy! We do try to do a little something new every day. Last Friday we went to Palm Harbor to meet up with Canadian friends, Ted and Connie , who we first met at 1000 Islands NY last July. We then all went to Tarpon Springs to have lunch at the Greek Restaurant again . They do have good food and an exceptional bakery! But it was a cool day and we sure had to dress with more layers. After our visit with Ted and Connie, we returned to our RV Park for the Friday evening entertainment at Boots Musici Hall. It was Joe and Jan Edwards from Nashville. Joe plays every instrument that you could think of, but many of them he records. Then he accompanied the recorded music, live with a guitar and also with his fiddle . He does a very good job, but he also has his wife accompany him with her singing. She has a very good voice and we enjoyed all of their music and jokes. It is so nice to have live entertainment here in the Parks and usually only $5. You can't beat that! On Saturday I had to get up earlier then usual for the gentleman who was going up on our roof to clean it good, since Gary does not do heights well. We kept getting black streaks from rain and he said that it was dirt from the air conditioners. He did a good job cleaning and we hope the streaks will no longer show up after a rain. After he left, Gary got out the ladder and cleaned the windows for now . He will begin doing all of the side walls this next week. But then that is good for him and keeps him busy, right? Then our week ends, or the next one begins by going to the First Baptist Church of Bushnell. There are so many transplanted people there from up north, that we feel right at home! There were 783 in attendance for the service this morning and 175 attended Sunday School. They did the same as we saw at Blythe Island Baptist in Georgia, by building a new structure for the sanctuary and using the former church for youth and Sunday School. Then connected it with a covered breezeway. Must be a thing of the south! This public building not far from the church, is about the only building of any size in this little town of Bushnell, except for CVS Pharmacy, Winn-Dixie, Walmart, a school, and the Post Office. There really is not much to the town. So if we want to do any true shopping, we would need to go on down the Interstate! I did find a Joanns, Kmart, Home Depot and Lowes that way. I have not found a Mall yet, but will keep on the look out. So keep in touch and see what we find to do next week! Enjoy your winter, we are!