Visit with Friends

March 25th - Thursday Temp 74 degrees and cloudy most of the afternoon

We decided at the last moment last evening to do all of our laundry and not have to hurry so much this morning, so at midnight last night we were finishing our laundry. Probably is a good thing we did that, as it is so crowded here, as you can see from the photo of our site, we wouldn't been able to have gotten it finished prior to leaving to spend the day with Doris.

I had the great pleasure of meeting Doris Swenson today. I have heard so many stories about she and her husband, that it was nice to be able to put a face with the name. Her husband and Lou spent many years together as they both served in the AirForce as Flight Engineers. Both were on Ole Shakey and from what I have heard there was a great love for that plane.

Doris fixed us a lovely lunch of shrimp salad on lettuce, fresh asparagus, hard boiled eggs, a wonderful seeded whole wheat bread and fresh fruit salad. For dessert, she fixed one of my favorites, tapioca pudding with lemon-ginger cookies. After lunch we cleared off the dining room table and we played bid Euchre. Lou had tried to remember how to play it before with Pres and Susie and he couldn't remember the exact rules, well Pres, we are ready to play now. She plays cards twice a week and we found that there were many games that she played that Lou and I have also played and had forgotten about. She wanted us to stay and play with her group this evening, but we had left Estee in the RV and we had been gone for almost eight hours, and needed to get back and let her out.

We arrived home to find that she had done really well, but was certainly ready to go out and was glad to see us. Normally, we do not leave her that long; however, by having electricity, we knew she would have A/C and in that area would be alright.

The pictures that I have posted show the Red Mangroves and you can see the tannic acid in the water, making it brown. The Red Fish like to live in the Mangroves. This is a fish that Scott likes to fish for. One picture shows the green air plants that are growing on a fallen log. We saw many with orchids blooming on them. Kris, many with the stag-horn ferns also.

The picture of Lou and Doris and then you will also see Doris' daughter Susie. She will be retiring this year and stopped by on her way home from school. She agreed with Doris, that Lou looks so much healthier and younger, so he came away feeling pretty good about life in general.

Tomorrow, we are off to Scott's house for the night and and a tour of Venice. You can see from the picture of our site, we are crammed in here, Estee doesn't even like to go outside, Lou says its too crowded for both dogs!! We are hopeful MacDill won't be like this.