wow, where has winter gone/

I have been informed to update my blog, and here it is(some). I have had good intentions, but!





First the most important things. Laura has basically recovered from "the Criket incident", but needs more time to fully recover. She is normally quite active, but was slowed considerably by her injuries from "the Criket Incident". She is now building herself back up to normal speed.





I am doing well, with no Doctor or hospital visits. The knee is doing well, although it still lets me know it is there. I can do most things, I used to do, but getting down on the floor and back up is still awkward.





The weather here for Jan and Feb has been fantastic, with only one short cold spell requiring heat, no AC needed(yet).





The boat is running fine, with not too many river trips recently, but lots of really big alligators. The most recent trip was several days ago, when we had Les and Sues' son Steve and his army friend Rich, along with Jerry and Shirleys'daughter, and granddaughter out and saw one of the largest gators we have ever seen on our river. The gator was nice enough to stay still so that all could get nice pictures of him.

We took the motorhome over to the Bluegrass Festival at Rodeheavers ranch and had a good time.

Then we loaded both crikets on the trailer and went to Homosassa State Park in Homosassa Springs. This is still one of the nicest parks around to see Florida wildlife. Birds, including white pelicans, alligators, manatees, and even Lucifer. Lucifer is still around at 52 years of age. Lucifer is a huge 3000 lb Hippopotamus.

After that ,we went south to Dunedin to witness their Fat Tuesday celebration. Their parade was 45 minutes of constant bead throwing. Without trying, we easily had 10-15 lbs of beads. Following this we went to Tampa to spend the night and in the morning, we went to Busch Gardens. They have a new Ice Skating show which is fantastic. We also saw the animal show, which is adding new animals all the time. We were going to go to Seaworld on the way back but decided enough was enough.

Last weekend we went to Silver Springs for the Travis Tritt Concert. It was ok, but they have eliminated the big speakers that used to be out front, so unless you were closer to the front, it was hard to hear everything.

Last week, Carol Sawyer died, at age 69. Carol was the oldest child of Uncle Frank and Aunt Dora and is a cousin to me. Uncle Roy Holcomb also passed away at 81. Roy was the youngest child of Mark and Beulah Holcomb, and was the younger brother of my mother. Doris Holcomb Mohr.

Until next time.