A WEEK WITH FRIENDS, MIKE AND SANDY

Time to catch up with Blog!!  It has just been Hit and Miss with the Blog since mid-February, so will try to catch up with most events.  After all we must keep up with the diary of events for our Rocking Chair Days!!  I'm afraid it is coming up faster than we would like!!
We have been trying to keep up with the activities here in the resort and also get in a few things out and about the countryside.  Solomon's Castle was one of those events.
Yesterday was a shopping day in Sebring because our microwave/convection oven bit the dust last Sunday and Gary got a friend here in the park to help him get it out to either repair or replace.  They  could not get to the fuse in the oven without removing it from the wall which was a real chore!! Then they had three new fuses blow which indicated that would not be the total solution!! Since it was more than twelve years old, we decided that a new one would be the best solution.

Golly, there is wall space behind all of the
packaged stuff that there is no cabinet for!!
And of course, the control
panel on the wall there was in the way
when they were pulling the oven out!!

We did not want to struggle to place such a large one back in the space, so we opted to buy a microwave and forgo the convection.  I may miss it some, but will make do.
Now Gary is busy designing the replacement cabinetry!!  No need to hurry as we still have about four weeks until we leave to head north for the summer season.
We finally got to pick up the repaired car!!  They did a wonderful job!!  So glad, but sorry insurance has to try to get their money back from the other driver.  Of course, we'll never know how they make out.

We had to wait for them to finish buffing it!! 

Water Aerobics is one of the park activities and Audrey tries to get in two hours of that a week per doctor's orders.  It has helped with strength and activity motion!!  I still am not getting a walk in every day which was my intentions when we got here in November.

I guess I love the reading too much!! And the Library Committee cleans out the unused books now and then and let members have them free, so I am always picking up more.

While the guys took the oven out, I also dug out two bushes in the yard and am debating about the third one!  There is so little foliage on it and almost no blossoms.  I am going to opt for the colorful leaf bushes next fall.  Once those are in it will look much better around.
We are also expected to serve on a committee or two which works at keeping the resort a beautiful family-like community!!  So we are doing out duty!!  Testing the waters on several.
Our friends, Mike and Sandy, from Lexington, SC came in Saturday, March 7th, for a week with us.  They were anxious to give their new retirement toy a test on the road and for living space.

No, that is not all that we had to do!!  Gary helped Mike with many things around the "home" since it is all new to Mike.  He was a truck driver, so the driving was not a problem!!
During the week that they were here, we did the usual eating out with park residents and craft activities, bingo and scrap booking at "home".

Sandy and Mike

June, and Jan, Skip must be to my right .
Not sure the names of the members across from them.

Bev, Julie and her husband, Jane and Bob
The window always makes picture taking difficult. 

Mike and Sandy also got to participate in the Flag burning Ceremony.  It was very impressive and we look forward to it again next year.  Steve did a wonderful job planning it!!  We only burned the cotton flags because of the pollution that would affect everyone from the nylon flags.  Gary dropped all of the nylon flags off for the VFW at Sebring to take care of.

One of our founding members (age 90)
had a star to burn to commemorate family
members who served.

Our office gal was spending the week at the
park with her husband and family.  He is an active Marine.

Art remembering fallen members that he served with.

Bud also sharing memories from Vietnam.

The young Marine!!

I was not ready to take a picture of Sandy as she remembered her father.  Sorry, Sandy, but so glad that you participated.
Their week ended all too soon!!  We tried to talk them into staying longer, but they have two more trips to make this year.  So their fun is not over.  Connecting up to leave - - - they pulled a trailer to bring their golf cart along with them.  Mike has such a difficult time getting about without that.  They then rented a car in Bartow, FL to get about town and such.

We will miss you guys.  But you might not miss the 90 degree weather here!! Glad you got home safe!!
More Blog info to catch up on, but will do it another day.  Stay tuned!!