getting presents
Spent a few days over on Cocoa Beach at Terri's sisters condo. Nice being able to walk out on the beach whenever the waves called you. Enjoyed the storms rolling onto the shore everyday, loved the pace, long, lazy and slow. Dropped Terri off at the airport on Thursday and then back to the house to sweep and mop. 
Saturday was spent on Bear Watch Patrol 2009. As I was cleaning the front patio one of our neighbors walked by and asked "Do you want to see the bears?" Who does not want to see bears, especially in your own neighborhood? So down the street, Hunt Club, and there the Mama and Baby Bear were, up in the branches of a tree. The police were on duty making sure traffic did not block the road. This was about 9am. I continued my watch during the day with updates to Cimi and Randy, (picture courtesy of Randy) all day. Around 5pm I decided to take another trip down the street as I was hearing sirens, and we all have the curious instinct to have a need to know what is going on. The local news was on site with a camera and did an interview with me, but alas I was cut for the guy who thought it was better than Disneyland for entertaining his kids on a Saturday afternoon. As dusk appeared I was doing my last watch and update of the day and over heard the sheriff say "the bears have skedaddled".
So as you can tell from the previous blog my thoughts have been running backwards, is it cause my birthday is near? Most likely, I think most people think of what has happened and what is to come when they are near their birth day. So my thoughts turned to the 70's, so much happened during that decade, I graduated from high school, married for the first time, started a career, even if at the time I did not know that it would be one, saw my family move thousands of miles away from me but did not realize the importance of family at that time, lived in the French Quarter in New Orleans and had some really interesting experiences, strippers on Bourbon Street with your husband playing drums while she dances on an electrical spool in front of him, turning 18 and having my first legal drink at the Warehouse at a Bob Dylan concert, pretty cool getting carded on your B'day, having my first apartment, moving 6 times in 5 years, why?, buying my first house, learning how to drive and buying my first car, it was a van with curtains and a sofa, and collecting money for gas, cause it had gone to $1.00 a gallon during the first gas crisis, voting for President for the first time, learning how to crochet from my mother, learning how to make a roux, loving white platform shoes in my little pink double knit polyester mini skirt suit, it was so professional, never going on a vacation that did not include a visit to family, I guess I did realize how important family was, always planning on partying on the weekends with friends, hating that I had to work on Saturdays cause the career turned out to be retail, loving my life and the no stress that we all seem to have today. So enjoy a couple of Peter Maxx paintings and remember the follies of your youth.
Just a great dress and a great pic. 
Diva Dresses is a charity for breast cancer awareness. I choose to support this charity this past week by viewing the dresses that Princess Diana had worn. If you know me you are aware that this is one of my small obsessions that you learn about me upon visiting my powder room. I had not seen this exhibit before and thoroughly enjoyed it. Here are the only pics I could take as none were allowed inside. My favorite was the taffeta dress worn by Diana during one of her Christmas's at Balmoral. 
So I know that it has been at least a month or less since I have posted anything. Just a few thoughts. The month of July was a busy one with the beginning of August being the same. We live in Florida and people like to spend their vacations here. We started out the month with Dago's sister and her family, kept the middle with Terri and ended the month and started August with Dago's parents who just left this past Monday. His parents were wonderful while here. They always like to have a project of some sorts and this time was no different. All of my white baseboards, doors and trim were painted during the beginning of their visit. The last weekend was spent painting our bedroom. Tried to take a couple of pics, hope you get the feel. We had it painted "Ocean Tide" thanks Brenna. It really is a beautiful and relaxing bedroom. We moved the TV out and have not missed it. Only have the bed, our chiffarobe and Rocko's sleeping headquarters. One of the You will also notice a few pics of the BEAR that visited the Friday prior to their leaving. I always wondered where they came from and where they were going. We have had several sightings of bears since living here. This was actually the closest that I have gotten. He was across the street in Norm's backyard, preceded to climb the fence, meander across Hunt Club, climbed another fence and was gone. Rocko was going nuts inside of the house. He looked as if he wanted to wander on down to Cimi and Randy's but decided not to. Work has been work. We are still in the midst of becoming mymacy's, a little stressful at times, but it is all good. Dago has been staying busy at his job. My one enjoyment of the summer had it's last visit today. Erinn was cleaning the house weekly and is now on her way back to Gains ville for her last semester at school. I will miss her and her talents at keeping my house clean. So that is about all for now. Hope everyone is well and enjoying the last of summer.
flew into town Thursday after work. Dago had Tijuana Flats for us and of course you can never have a vacation without doing a grocery run. We choose Pub lix of course and anyone who has ever had carrot cake knows that Pub lix does have the best one out there. 
And two hours later we were set up on the beach for the day. Terri had given Cindy a "beach table" like the one that Cimi and Randy had given to Dago years ago for his birthday and Cindy had chairs, umbrellas, towels, snacks, water and great chemo stories for u
s that afternoon. We had a great time just sharing memories, getting bit by fish, sunning, lots of sand and just enjoying the simplicity of life. Dinner was fish tacos down the road when Brian came home. Then off to the condo to watch the lightning storms. Saturday was a repeat of Friday, with a sunset included in the day. 
On Sunday morning I got up with the sunrise, which was great. As i strolled along in the surf I made sure to pick up whatever did not belong so it would not get washed back out when the tide came in. It is amazing that such
We were also able to catch up with some Fairhope Alabama friends, Tom, Nancy, Elizabeth and Andrew. What a fun weekend. Can we say nonstop? Hats off to Cimi and Randy for hosting a great weekend with Randy burgers and Dago always knows how to pick out a great cake from Publix. Talk to all soon. Oh, and can I say this weekend Terri will be in town and then the following weekend Dago's parents will be here. As I always say it is summer and we live in Florida.
live star fish, dolphins swimming 20 feet from us, and a manatee passing by, a bat flying for Bonnie, cockroaches on the patio under our feet, can we say JUMP, multiple lizards named George visiting, spiders and webs through the foliage, crabs telling us good morning, and then a crab biting Bonnie on the butt in the ocean, she freaked out cause she thought it was seaweed, the crab had gone postal, Rob finding the best shells on Bowman's Beach, Rob-Marco, Polo with Andrew his new man friend, painting coconuts, flying kites, shelling every day, boogie boarding, shopping, some body surfing, Olivia fishing and catching a big snooker, rain showers in the afternoon, Mexican food our last night, bad margaritas, screwdrivers, wine, great dinners, excellent lunches, great company with great friends, cute little cottage (Bette Davis had it built), no Shell Museum again, Michael Jackson on TV, 6am morning walks along the beach, real rough water, no floating in the ocean, water shoes, cut feet, how many corona beer boxes were down the street, five million dollar after dinner drink house, tikki torches, Dago and new swim shorts, torn up pedicures, sun poisoning, sitting under the umbrella, long sleeve t shirt, not swim suits, but sunning suits, guide dog on the beach, mutts on the beach, sand exfoliation, sunsets, dirty sunglasses, Olivia passed out on the beach, driving down to setup everyday, breaking in, who's got the key, outside showers, early bedtimes, Captiva 2009 sand and shell sculpture on the beach, ice cream, big red chair, are there any limes, where are my sunglasses, head wraps, keys and of course the mesh bags, towels, where's Dago, great laundry and sheets, "TIGHT", aggravating phone calls, Dago always swimming, Bonnie and Olivia being cold in the cottage, calves that hurt, hamstrings hurting worse, feet worn out and doing quads daily, Captiva Stoop, and then the long drive home. Hope you all enjoy the memories. Next year can not come fast enough.
. One of the items that was moved next to our door, was my fountain. Dago reminds me to make sure there is always water in it as he has spotted birds coming to drink and play in it. Tonight as we were eating dinner, we again noticed this small bird with a piece of something in her beak. Dago said that she was building a nest somewhere next to the fountain. After I finished up the kitchen I decided to explore the potted plants to see where this nest could be. It is being built in the middle of a pot of Mother in Law tongues (that is what I know the plant as). This is why we know that this bird is female cause she must be getting ready to lay eggs in this nest. Check it out, how cool is this? So leaving you for the week by saying "stop and enjoy what is given to us freely. "
I did do everything on my list to some degree so you could say that i was not all that lazy during this vacation. Saturday found me scrapping with Cimi. I thought that since everyone started out the week with a photo of bad hair and no makeup, but we did have pie, that you should have one with decent hair, some makeup and chocolate pound cake. I finished up the wedding album, 3 years and 2 months after. Just have to do some journalling. I think the next photo project will be Janet and Todd's wedding vacation trip that we took almost 10 years ago to Colorado. I did do a memory book for her, but nothing for us. Tonite we go to Bonnie and Rob's for the Survivor ending. Jacki just called and Dago is on his way to pick her up so she will be joining us. What a surprise. So tomorrow back to the world of Macy's at the mall of Millenia. Everyone have a great week.
So what does a girl do when she doesn't have a vacation trip planned? (in no order)
Enjoy the hydrangea picture at the end of this post. They only use real flowers and gosh darn they let us take them all home.
i then had worked the previous night cause the two before that i was traveling to and from miami for the annual star academy celebration for the top macys florida performers. we stayed at the biscayne marriot overlooking the bay and the way to the ocean. i forgot how pretty theviews in that part of town is. now the neighborhood on the other hand is not so nice, but we hung out with all of our peeps and had a wonderful time.
eces be big mommies. so to leave you for the week here is the favorite pic i took. enjoy.
just seemed that it took forever to be done. we got together with our survivor dinner group last night. pizza this week, it was my turn, and no time to cook. dago picked up the dessert, he does pick out really good ones and we watched the show. i am really glad stephanie go voted off. taj needs to get the idol back on her person, cause those guys look like they could mess with her. and who is going to watch harper's island? mmmm looks interesting.
Our retreat at work last week, we played tourist.
