Almost time to head North

Last night we brought together all the elements for a great farewell dinner party - good food, great friends, lots of booze and delicious dessert.
Have a great sumer everyone - hope we can do it all again next year.

Busy day......lucky day

Yesterday was a beautiful sunny hot day which was great since we had two outdoor activities to attend.
First was the TGO Fun Fair which included displays by the local Sheriff's dep't, vintage cars and an opportunity for all the TGO activity clubs to show off their wares and do a little fund raising.
By noon we headed off down the road to the town of Christmas for their annual Bluegrass Festival- great music, pulled pork sandwiches, home-made ice cream and kettle corn.
We got back home to find a message on our answering machine - I had guessed the right number of golf tees in the jar and won a basket of red and white wines. We have 7 bottles of wine and 2 and a half weeks left to drink them - yeah, that's about right.
FYI- there were 724 tees in the jar!

Living in harmony?

This was an interesting and unusual sighting on the nature trail yesterday - a turtle playing chicken with an aligator.
Not sure what happened but my money's on the gator!

Happy St Patrick's Day

It's always nice to have friends from back home come and visit, especially when it's St. Patrick's Day and those friends are Irish (at least a little bit!)
Thanks for the visit (and the wine) Bev and Mike and enjoy the rest of your time in Florida.

We lost.......again!

We held our second annual Canada vs USA bowling competition this week. We traded Kathy back to USA where she belongs and picked up a couple of ringers from Trenton (or so we thought).
Well, it was not to be- we lost- but not as badly as last year and that's something to be proud of!
After watching the Olympics Dan thought we would do better if he swept Donalda's ball but even that didn't help!
But true to form, we did much better in the ice sports and when we went back to the TGO in time for Happy Hour Canadians reigned supreme!

The Village of Cocoa boardwalk

One of our favorite places to walk on a beautiful day is the boardwalk in the Village of Cocoa.
And if the pelican in this picture looks happy he should be - he ate most of my ice cream cone!

Crafty weekend

This was a great weekend for those of us who enjoy craft fairs. Today the streets of the Village of Cocoa were closed to regular traffic for their annual craft fair. We walked for miles and managed to find some great deals. Lunch was at a little bistro fashioned to look like Seinfeld's Soup Nazi joint. Joel - you would have enjoyed it!
And yesterday, here at the TGO church craft sale Kathy bought herself and me pin cushion rings. In this country I think it means we're engaged!

Another fire

It seems like every year my Blog has at least one fire story and sadly this year is no exception. There are a lot of rumours going around about what started this one but happily no one was hurt

Supper got a little cold

Last night we left supper on the table to run outside to watch the launch of a Delta IV rocket carrying a weather satelite into orbit. I'm not really sure what a weather satelite does but I do know that the weather is getting into the high 70's in a couple of days and that's all I need to know.