Still Cold

Yesterday was still a cold day. We did manage to get out and walk around the park,then go to WalMart for groceries. Boy did we ever go to WalMart. Nancy was in a buying mood and thats not good when she does this. I spent time on the computer and listening to the scanner radio. The rescue squads really stay busy,people fighting,over dosing and car wrecks. Also fooling with my old video camera that I haven't used in a few years. I got a new battery off Ebay,the price on Ebay was $11.44. That beats the price of $49.95 in the stores here,if you can even find it. The picture on the video keeps jumping around and the sound distorted. After running a head cleaning tape through many times and pushing and pulling on different things I think I have got it to working. Time will tell.
Todays schedule is for me to get a hair cut,the rest of the day is up in the air of what to do.
Man this retirement life is rough.
Today the temp is up to 71,so if the wind doesn't blow very much it will be a nice sunny day.
Wherever you may be keep warm and safe.
Thanks for stopping by and do come back again.

Cold in Florida

Yesterday was rather a cool day and a brisk breeze blowing all day. We went to the mall to walk and look around. We had not been to the mall in a week or so,so we had to see if anything was new there,not much changed. After we got back home and ate dinner we took the garbage out to the dump and walked one time around the park. The wind was still blowing and you could tell it was going to turn cold for the night. After Nancy watched her programs and I on the computer,I watched a couple of basketball games.It was 37 degrees when we got up this morning. Is this Florida? This is the kind of morning that one likes to just lazy around for a while before doing anything. It is a 2 or 3 cups of coffee morning,know what I mean? We do have to go to(you guessed it)WalMart to get a few groceries and look around to see if there is something that we just can't do without.

My son sent me some pictures of the snowfall they had in the Smokie Mountains.
Looking at these I don't guess I should complain of our cold weather.

This is my son Joe and grandson Haven. They were enjoying the snow up in the mountains.

Park Parade

We had our annual park parade yesterday. The parade started at 1:00pm,the day was sunny and hot. We had a clown.

We had more clowns. These are the people from the park that have a clown ministry,the go to the nursing homes to entertain the people that are there. They are really good in what they do.

We had two fire trucks and a rescue squad truck.

The Pasco County Sherriff in the parade.

Even a Florida Highway Patrol car, there were several floats. After the parade we had an ice cream social. The weather started turning for the worse around 3:30pm with the wind blowing and the clouds coming overhead. Then the rain came hard and the weather conditions got bad,with a possible tornado. We didn't have a tornado but,had rain and wind most of the night.

This morning a drop in temperature,52 degrees this morning and getting up only to 58.

What a difference a day makes,of course it is better then being in the 20's and snow blowing.

Birds

Yesterday was spend walking in the John Chestnut Park. Usually walking along the boardwalks we get over run by squirrels,but this day just about the only thing on the railing was this tree growing out on to the rail. We did see a few squirrels though. This happened one time last year,don't know the reason for it.

Spotted the Blue Heron in the tree feeding two little ones that were still in the nest. I tryed to get a picture of the little ones but they were to far away to get a good focus on.

I think this is a Red Tail Hawk that swooped down on the rail. What amazed me was that it let me get to within 15 feet of it to get this picture. It did fly off to join another one that was in the trees.

As we were about to finish up on this trail this bird landed on a branch above our head. It was picking at a field mouse or some other small animal that it had caught for its meal.

We also saw a large Red Headed Woodpecker. It was a good day to be birding and walking the trails. This is the reason we like to go on the trails and walk more then we like to walk in the rv parks.

Today we are having a parade in the park so we will watch it for our intertainment. It is a lot of fun seeing the different floats and all the rest of the parade.

Andy

Yesterday we spent the rest of the evening resting a little then we walked for a bit. Stopped in and visited a couple of people here on the park. By the time we got back it was time to settle in for the night. I on my computer and Nancy watched the Oscar Awards,I don't care for the show anymore because I don't know any of the people that get the Oscars. They have to many winners that are just in one movie and then you never hear of them again. It was better when movie stars were special people that had talent and acted like they were stars.
My great grandson (Andy) says he likes reading my blog. He likes it when I have the animal pictures on,he says to put on more alligator pictures. Andy is 5 years old so I guess he would like the different animal pictures.
It is a nice sunny morning here today to start the day,the temp will be in the middle 70's.
Nothing as of now is planned for the day. Lots of people are taking their morning walk before it gets to hot.

The Week End

Yes it did rain yesterday and I watched college basketball on the tube,no I forgot we have an lcd tv. Is that a tube or not? Thats the way it was all day. Man O' Man am I getting lazy or what?
Today after hearing a real good sermon from the preacher we went out to Christo's with our friends,had a nice dinner and a nicer time chatting with them. We are so glad to have met our new friends in church,we enjoy being around them.
Right now Nancy is reading and I'm catching up on my computering.
I got a nice email from the grandson Jeremy and the two little ones,also got a couple from our son Joe who is happy to be on his new laptop computer.

Dunedin Bay

Yesterday we went down to Dunedin

We walked the sidewalk along the bay. Here is a panoramic shot of the bay. We wanted to walk here because the temp was a little above 80 and we knew there would be a breeze coming off of the water. We were right,it was a nice breezy walk.

This speed boat looks like it is going fast,but it was not going as fast as it looks in the picture.

After the walk on the sidewalk we went back to the car for a drink of cool water then strolled over to look at the boats in the Dunedin Marina. There were some nice yachts were moored,one even had a grill attached to the back of it where they could grill their steaks. I don't know how you can grill out on the water,I sometimes dropped things off the grill and mine is on solid ground.

There were pelicans around the marina waiting for the charter boats to come in so they could get a handout. It was a nice day walking in the sun and the breeze of the day.

It is raining today and going to have showers on and off all day. Of course this is saturday and I will spend most of the day watching my basketball games.

No Pizza Today

Yesterday,was just a day nothing special happened. We walked a bit around the park,stopped to watch the baby sandhill cranes for a while. Then we went to the laundromat,this usually means a pizza but we didn't have one. We are trying to loose some wheight,so we are holding back on our eating as much as possible. This is one thing that is hard for me to do because I really love food.

Of course we have nothing planned for the day. No doctors appointments until April,and then its just follow ups and get our perscriptions before we take off for the summer.
The weather here is nice,the temp going up to 80 today. Up north where the family live they are having cool and cold temps. Thats winter time in the north. I can remember those cold nasty winters getting out in the car and sliding all over the road. No thank you,I'm thankful to be able to spend the winter in Florida. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed many a winter with the family getting together for the holidays. Those times will be remembered forever.

New Park

Yesterday we went down in Hillsborough County to a new to us park. Its the Upper Tampa Bay Park This park is only about 25 miles from our place so it didn't take very much time. That is if there wasn't so much traffic.

The first trail was the Eagle Trail,around 1 mile total length. This wasn't a challeng for us so we took another trail where the trail was wide and the grass was mowed so it made a good walking place. Its a good thing,as we were walking we came upon a snake lying out in front of us,by the time I got my camera turned on ready to take a photo it slithered away.

We then got in the car,drove down aways to another trail and walked it. Where we had parked the car was a Butterfly Garden with a few flowers growing.

On the way back we stopped in and did some more walking at John Chesnut park because we only had 4 1/2 miles and we needed more walking. We saw this Anghingh bird drying its wings. We noticed how straight the lines were with the white on black feathers. It looked as though it was painted on,beautiful.

Propane

Yesterday morning started or may didn't start with the 20lb propane tank running empty. It was rather cool in the motorhome with no heat. Of course I could have hooked up the onboard large tank but I didn't. After breakfast I took the tank down and got it filled so we could have it nice and warm when we took our showers.
We then took the garbage to the dump and walked around the park. Then to WalMart to get some groceries,come home, fire up the grill and put the dogs on. I finaly got my hot dogs after wanting them for a month now. Nancy doesn't like hot dogs so I don't fix them as much as I would like to. The rest of the evening was pretty much of what we always do,me watching my basketball games and Nancy reading.
As I was waiting for Nancy to get up this morning I was listening to the landing of the shuttle on my scanner radio. Listened to ground control and the astronauts in the shuttle talking.
Today will no doubt be another same ol' typical day.