Two Weeks in Pictures





After our travels down to Sanibel and a short visit with Kathy we headed up to Jacksonville to have a triple birthday celebration for Karen, Christy and me.  We gathered at Karen's house and went to lunch at Brio's Italian Restaurant .  We had a great lunch.

 

The kids were given some pizza dough to mold into shapes and then the dough was baked.

 

Note Sophie's concentration

and Lucy's mastery of the art.

back at the house we had a special cake made by Penny with help from Lucy and Sophie.

 

 

Christian spent some quality time with the kids.

 

We returned home on Sunday and then hit the road again on Thursday to go to Tallahassee for a quilting class.  While Penny went to her class I went to St Marks National Preserve and took many pictures.

 

I saw a bald eagle

a light house

 

lots of birds

 

spent about 20 minutes just watching this egret wade up the canal catching fish.

 

 

a turtle

 

a gator with babies

a bird in a tree

 

Then we rushed back home to attend a wedding in Destin on Saturday.

I didn't get any good pictures of the wedding but they had a beautiful sunset at Destin Harbor and I did get pictures of that

 

 

After that things have settled down to our normal routine - haircuts, doctor's appointments and a FOCCUS couple.

Next week is Thanksgiving!

On the homefront 2 kitties, Buzz and Meredith, are still coming for dinner outside. (the feeder continues to work well, is raccoon resistent and can feed for a month now before it needs to be refilled.)
 My replacement for the desktop computer that died a while back is supposed to arrive tomorrow.  We got an up-to-date machine with the latest/fastest intel chip, lots of memory and good capability that should be adequate for us until we stop using desktops.