We got up late this morning because we had a kind of bad night.  The temperature got down to freezing and we lost our power.  I need my heated mattress pad!!!!  Come to find out 30 of us lost power.  A park breaker popped.  I guess we were all using our electric heaters at once.

Our trip here Rog towed the kayak trailer and I drove the car.  It was a nice quiet trip until we arrived at the entrance to the park.  Those poor people involved in the accident.  

 




This is the entrance to the rv park.   There was one lane for us to come into the park.  The police had two lanes of traffic on the main road blocked and we had to go into the left turn lane or U turn lane to get around the accident.  The left side and back end of the RV was very badly damaged too, but you can not see at this angle.  I did not get many pix because we were trying to check in and get our rig out of the way of other incoming RVs. 

This park has about 400 spaces and about 200 of them our full hookups.  The others have electric and water only.  When you come into this park during peak season there is a special "RV dance" that you must go through in order to get a full hookup site.  First you check in, find a temporary place in the electric water sites (over flow site) to park your rig, and your name is placed on a lottery.  All the available sewer sites for that day are listed on the board by noon.  At that time you make a list of the sites, go look at them and then at 1:00 each day the sewer sites are picked.  The names are read from the list in the order they arrived in the park.  When your name is called you select from the remaining sites that are available on the board.   
We are heading out early in the morning to take the RV in for a 50,000 mile checkup, wheels alined, and Rog is tried of looking at that sticker covering the ABS light on the dash lol.   We are deciding if we even want to get in the lottery for a sewer site or not.  We my just stay down here and dump the tanks. 

We also got an "important notification"  Our water system was recently outside of drinking water standards.  Although this is not an emergency.  "We routinely monitor for the presence of drinking water contaminants.  On Jan. 11, 2013, we received a notice that as of the sample collected on Nov. 2012 our system exceeds the standard, or maxinum contaminant level (MCL) for Combined Radium-226 & 228.  The standard for the contaminant is 5 pCi/L.  Our average level of the contaminant over the last year has been 5.1 pCi/L. "  What to do, well what we got out of it is hold your nose and drink.  LOL  Not anything can be done my use to get rid of it. 

 Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.




   

sam

This is our beautiful granddaughter, Samantha.   I took this pic off her mother's facebook page.

We had a very cold night last night.  The low was 33.  After a late night I did not get up until 9 ish and the temperature then was 39.  We finally got up to 58 degrees, but it dropped fast when the sun went down.  We are to have another cold night then we are back to normal, highs 80's and lows in the 60's.  I'm getting use the normal.  

We stayed home again.  We are getting packed up to leave for a new location down south.  We will stay there two weeks.  Rog decided to pack up the water hoses because they are very hard to wind up when they will not bend because of the cold.  

I marinated a chicken breast in Italian dressing, dipped it in Panko, and fried it.  It was quite good.  I will do this again.  We also had rice, green beans, and Cara Cara oranges as a salad.  I am chopping  up Cilantro  and putting it in my rice now.  It really is a great fresh taste. 

Laura sent (finally) her wonderful soup recipes. Thanks.  I will get all set up at our next stop and cook some different kinds of soups there.      

 We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.  Some of us anyway

 

It is very late!

We went to our Valentines Day dinner and had a wonderful time.  I was given a long stemmed red rose.  We were served soup; creamy veggie, salad, main dish; tenderloin, cheesy mash potatoes, asparagus with sauce, dessert: chocolate cake with sauce, all of soft drinks you wanted and two glasses of wine.  The meal was great.

We were treated to a variety show with singing, dancing, comedy and fun.  We had a great time! would do it again in a heart beat.

We took pix with the cell phone and now I have to figure out how to down load them at midnight,  not sure if that is going to happen, but will try.  Well I tried and I thought I had them down loaded but I can not find them anywhere in my computer folders.  I knew it was just to easy, something had to be wrong.

Well anyway the food was great the show was great and we had a great time.

The End


 Paraprosdokians (Winston Churchill loved them) are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected, frequently humorous. Enjoy!
 I got these by email from a friend, who will remain nameless Michelle.  I will be adding them to the blog from time to time because I like Winston Churchill love them.  LOL

  Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

My flowers are opening up more and more.  

 They are so beautiful.   It was very over cast and almost raining all day.  It did get up to 69 for a high.  Tomorrow we are suppose to have a freeze warning here and not too far north they are suppose to have a hard freeze.  It is amazing how those cold fronts can change your life in a hurry.  

We were going to the NACAR race tomorrow evening, but we decided a while back to cancel.  We are glad we did because with the freeze warning it would be mighty cold out there sitting on the bleachers watching car go round.  We are going out to dinner and a show instead.  I will be late with the blog tomorrow but will have fun things to report.

 Paraprosdokians (Winston Churchill loved them) are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected, frequently humorous. Enjoy!
 I got these by email from a friend, who will remain nameless Michelle.  I will be adding them to the blog from time to time because I like Winston Churchill love them.  LOL
 The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it's still on my list.

Valentines Day

Rog brought this flower pot yesterday while he was out.  At that time none of the tulips were open and as if on cue this Valentines  Day morning they started to open.   As the day has progressed they too have progressively opened more and more.  What a great surprise!  Thank you Honey.  

Here's wishing each of you a great Valentines Day.

The weather has changed a lot.  We are now under over cast skies and we are getting a little drizzle.  They say they really need the rain here.  I can not say one way or the other because I don't know how much water you need with sandy soil, really just sand.  Things are still green here.  The temperature is in the mid 60's which is also nice for a change.  I guess we will have this for 2 or 3 days then back to the normal 70's and 80's.

I have a trip to the Crystal River for another manatee snorkel trip in March.  This time I will take both cameras.  The one I use all the time and the underwater one.  Hope I can get some great pix of those guys with us guys.   


 Paraprosdokians (Winston Churchill loved them) are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected, frequently humorous. Enjoy!
 I got these by email from a friend, who will remain nameless Michelle.  I will be adding them to the blog from time to time because I like Winston Churchill love them.  LOL
 

Where there's a will, I want to be in it.
 

We stayed close to home again.  I worked on needle work and reading.  Rog went shopping and brought me a Valentine Day flower, in a pot, of course.  Thank you!!!

I went on Facebook and found this wonderful pic of my Grandson in uniform.  He is in JROTC at his school.  I love a man in uniform.  Way to go Drew Man. 


I was off to Bingo and won $150 this time.    It was fun and I won, can't get much better than that. 

We are experiencing a bit of a change in the weather here.  We broke records for the high of 88 with clouds, which means high humidity.  Then in a matter of minutes a cold front went through.  It rained, a lot at times and the ttemperature dropped 20 degrees and is still falling.  Sunday they say that the high should be 59.  Quite of difference.  None of this lasts very long because soon it will be in the high 70's and sunny. 










 

Co steve

You people in Colorado take care of Steve.

We stayed home today and did well, nothing much.

I made soup.  I am loving homemade soup now.

We went to the pool and hung out for a while.

We got new neighbors.  I know that happens all the time.  They set up and then took off to take care of stuff I guess.  While Rog was out fixing his chair he noticed water coming out all over  the RV.  So he headed over and turned off the water.  When they came home Rog went over and asked if they needed help.  He took over our wet and vac to help them out.  When they got done with the wet and vac and brought it back with a thank you and a thank you card.  When we got home I opened the card up and there was $50.  No!  I took it back and told them Rog did not do this for the money and we are all here to look out for each other.  Come on all he did was walk over and turn the water off.  I told them to pass it forward is all we wanted.