December Already

As I write this, we are under a tornado watch until 10:00 tonite. It is 3:45 pm now.

We are all alone down here now as Sue and Lester left for home yesteday morning, and Gary and Connie won't be here until Christmas(for a short while), but we will be OK.

Yesterday we went to Port Orange to visit Wally and Joan Tanner(we needed haircuts). Wally is having a bout with prostate cancer and will be undergoing radiation treatment after they get back from their trip North for Christmas. Hopefully he will come out of this ok. we wound up meeting Norma, and Janice and Don for supper at Outback. it seems we had 2 for 1 coupons to use. We followed Norma home to check on her motion light, which is not working properly. She wants to the little piggies when they show up. We will put in a new light that works.

We had an appointment with Dr Dew, who took x-rays of the knee and told us to come back in 2-3 months, or if we have a problem. The knee is slowly getting better.

Our Thanksgiving was very nice, with Sue putting on the Dinner with help from others. Norma was here, along with Virgil and Helen Jarrett, Steve Johnson, Sues' niece, her friend and two daughters, with Les , Laura and myself. We took them all on a boat ride and saw a few alligators.

Last Tuesday, we went to Seaworld again, because Steve wanted to go. So since we have been here, this fall, we have been to Seaworld twice, Busch Gardens once and Magic Kingdom once. We are scheduled to do Epcot for my birthday, and Seaworld and Busch Gardens one more time before the end of the year. Sunday we went to the Waldo Flea Market and now we have been to all of the local flea markets at least once, with the exception of Daytona Beach.

Last Saturday, we spent time in Jacksonville and watched their annual lighted boat parade in the St Johns River. They had about 50 boats, mostly 25 ft or bigger, and almost all were very well decorated and lighted. Following the parade, they had a spectacular fireworks display, using three barges spread out in the river. They had done the same thing the night before when they had the official lighting of the 64 ft Christmas tree, which is filled with computer controlled lights to provide musically choregraphed lights and sounds.

It is time for a few minutes of rest and awwwwayyyyy we go again.