Weekend With Daisy

Live Oak, FL - Visiting with Daisy

March 11 - March 13th Beautiful weather 70 degrees to low 80’s

We arrived at Daisy’s around 4:00 on Friday afternoon, it took a little longer than we had thought as we had to stop to stop to fill with gasoline and with propane at Flying J. Lou thought gas would be higher once we crossed over into Florida and he was right.

We had spent the night before at Mossy Pond Camp Grounds in Lake Pond, GA with is the camp ground that goes with Moody Air Force Base.

At Daisy’s house we just had a good time catching up on what had been happening with our families since we last saw each other last spring. Daisy lives way out in the country with lots of farm land surrounding her. She loves her gardens, both flower and vegetables and it indeed shows. Inside, she sews, and quilts along with reading, as her sewing room and books shelves reflect. She like most quilters I know do many quilts for charity and gives them away freely, she is doing a project right now for gentleman in the VA hospitals and she is doing her squares in the shapes of bow ties and I thought they were really neat for the men.

She made Lou and me a beautiful one for our new RV and the colors are just perfect. I had to take it right out and put in on the foot of our bed.

I forgot to mention that we ended up parking in her yard and dry camped, as the camp ground that we usually stay at in Live Oak was full, so it was really convenient. With all of the space that she has we could make a complete turn around and back out again.

She has every bird you can think of and Lou and I enjoyed having our breakfast in the RV each morning with the Bluebirds perching on our mirrors watching us, and then we watched them come and go to their house, was the perfect place to watch birds. She had Ground Robins and I wanted to get a picture and I see that I didn’t get one.

Of course, a lot of our time was spent watching the horrible details of the earth quake in Japan unfold. Lou was very thankful to be someplace where there was Fox television coverage to get the latest and up to date new coverage.

Daisy is doing a special quilt for Krista’s new baby and wanted me to pick out colors for the squares she is going to hand embroider in the center of the quilt. That was fun to do, it was like coloring a picture. She plans on using farm animals for her theme, which will please Krista, as she has a soft place in her heart for the farm. The colors Daisy had picked out before I arrive were the same colors Krista had picked out for the baby’s room, so all was perfect.

We were also treated to Daisy’s home cooking. The first morning, she made us homemade muffins to go with a fresh pot of tea. Her muffins were bran with cranberries and nuts and so tasty, she even made extra for us to take on the road with us. Knowing that desserts are favorites of ours, one day we had apple crisp and one peach cobbler, all were served warm with a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Tina and her husband, Gary were over to visit with us and Gary made us a beautiful bird feeder that he custom made from lumber that he had burned designs into then used a preservative

Over it. With the large platform that he has built into it the Cardinals will love to feed from it. We will be anxious to put it up and watch our birds feed from it. Daisy had one and the squirrels had found a way to open it and feed from the inside, prompting Gary to restructure the roofline.

Tina and Gary brought their granddaughter Gracie with them, the last time we saw her she was a little gal, so it was nice to see her growing up. She was fond of Estee until Estee decided that she would like to have the carrot that Gracie was enjoying.

We left Daisy’s house Monday morning around 11:00, we had intended to leave earlier; however, we were welcomed with an early morning fog and we awaited the departure of the fog.

We were back on Route 51 to 27 and to 75 and on to Tampa, FL.