This cat has been meowing at our door for a couple of days
I think the neighbor fed the stray. The cat is really sweet and friendly and purr-y. And hungry. The neighbor posted it on Facebook, but apparently no one has contacted them about ownership.
Kitty is so sweet MIKE is tempted to keep her!
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Donna fixed us a nice big Southern breakfast this morning over at Sally's house. I think I might just start buying biscuits in cans. They are really good. Much simpler and faster than making from scratch. Add gravy and they are yummy. Or just as good with butter and jelly. Mmm.
THEN add sausage, scrambled eggs, and chocolate milk and we are stuffed and all set for the day of travel. A LONG day of travel. We won't be home until close to midnight. But it will be nice to get home after a very full week of fun in the sun and water. And heat. Ugh. Yesterday with clouds and rain was much more temperate. Still very very humid here in Florida.
Corbin has a shorter day before he's home by 6:30 p.m. or so. Depending on if there are no delays, we should have time to deliver Corbin to the baggage claim and Katie or Casey, then get back through Security and to our gate for the flight to St. George.
And we are stuffed. What a food- filled vacation! And the fridge is still full of food. Crazy. Sally has leftovers from the breakfasts and all that pizza last night in HER fridge. We have drinks and snacks and chips and cereal and cheese and lunch meat and rolls and bagels and peanut butter. We did manage to finish off pancake mix, syrup and butter. Janet bought most of that food. We contributed very little in comparison.
But we sure ate a lot! All day every day and now my clothes are much tighter.
Bye bye, Little Beach House! We shall return😘
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First stop- Walgreens for Allergy nose spray. Poor Mike and his allergies. Those sprays really help with so many things. How we love modern medicine.
Next stop-- Indian Mound Museum. Sadly, they were closed long term for renovation. I got to read a few outdoor signs about it.
Third stop -- find the dolphin tour boat place so we know where to go this afternoon. It wasn't an easy task due to major bridge and road construction in the area. But we found it eventually.
Fourth stop -- the Coral Reef souvenir shop. So much stuff. Way too much made in China junk, basically. But I found some cute shells and starfish, and ornament and a candle. Corbin managed to find a surfboard shaped wooden. Key chain for each member of his family- with names on them!
After lunch we headed to the Dolphin tour place. It was a Hurry Up And Wait situation. We headed out to sea around 2:30 pm. No rain , but plenty of wind and not very smooth seas. "Weather" they call it.
We did see some Atlantic bottle nose dolphins in the water and motored around to find more. Maybe saw about 25 or so. Some even leapt out of the surf! That was cool. Mostly it was just fins and backs.
Back inside the sound to snorkel. In sea grass! Ick. With water that was under 5 feet deep. Ick. Only a very few fishes. It probably would have been clear except 37 people all just walked everywhere around the boat. It was just a sandy grassy bottom. Some found hermit crabs.
Definitely not my favorite snorkel trip. Sorry I spent so much money on it. Live and learn.
Janet ordered an obscene amount of pizza for dinner tonight. They were beyond large. They were HUGE. Plus garlic knots, and salad. There were 5 different pizzas. Plus bread sticks!!!!
We are stuffed. Corbin swam at Sally's ( so did I, before dinner), then I showered and got ready for bed. Even without extreme heat and exhaustion, I'm still pooped out at night. Water time, boat time (and shopping!! -- [horrors!])...it all takes a toll on this old gal. Mike didn't even snorkel this afternoon. He just watched from the boat, and took a lovely shot of Corbin and me standing out in the sea grassy water.
Donna's little House is so comfy. We have loved being here and just relaxing together. And we especially needed a day of nothing but relaxing today. I think we all had a bit of heat exhaustion. And some of us were sun burned, too.
David got up early this morning and packed his car to leave for home. I think he would have just disappeared without saying anything to anyone, but I smelled ( burnt toast?) his coffee brewing and got up to investigate. I rather startled him when I came out and found him in the kitchen. That guy drinks A LOT of coffee daily. And he's back to smoking cigarettes, too. But he was just done with being gone from his home. Done with people. Tired. Missing Laura. But, sadly we cannot help with that part of his life. He just Wanted/Needed to get home. So he left. It was good that he could spend time with us. But, "Fishing is not my thing," he said. Yeah. Well, we are ALL sore from fishing! Ha.
And you know what? We never tried to pose a nice photo of the four of us siblings together. Too bad. We don't get together often enough.
Butch's Mom, Sally, was having her eye shots today, so we kind of steered clear of their house most of the day so she could rest. But we rested over here with Donna and Butch coming over and discussing cruise excursions with the rest of us.
Corbin slept in till close to 10:30. Ate a lot of pancakes for breakfast ( late). Rested. Read a very little bit. Played no games with us, though that's about all we did all day. Games and eating. Some people napped or watched TV. I worked on Hotel reservations for CA and Kenny's funeral next week. And flowers for that. And Mom's prescription. It was over cast today, so no blistering sunshine; however, the weather app on my phone said it was 89 degrees this morning, but felt like 101. Ugh. So it was inside and air conditioning for us all.
Rob, Janet, Butch, Donna had dinner out, but Corbin made Chicken Quesadillas for us. They were yummy. He did it all !
