Veterans Day - 2025

 

Honoring all our veterans, past and present for serving our country and keeping us safe

Thank you Ryan!

Fort Myers broke a record set on this date in 1982 for our low of 43 (felt like 36).    Sooo COLD across much of the country.   

Mark cleaned out some overhead lockers in Flo,  I did more online shopping and some light cleaning in Flo.    Then time to pick up our fruit tray at Publix for the veterans day luncheon - what a beautiful assortment of fresh fruit.    I got a latte (my first holiday drink at Starbucks), dropped off a bunch of bags at Goodwill and on home.

Kicking off the season...

Back to CT and took the fruit tray to the kitchen fridge in the clubhouse, picked up a bag of ice and on home for lunch,    Then off to Collins Vision where I had appointment with Dr. Jason Friedrichs to consult about eyelid surgery.   Last April, Dr. Alessi suggested I have this taken care of and we scheduled this consult for today.    

After hearing all about this procedure which Dr. Friedrichs definitely recommends, I saw the scheduler, Ivette and I'm all set to have this done on February 12th.    I certainly never thought I would need eyelid aka "Blepharoplasty" surgery😐

Two friends have had this done (Connie and John) and very happy with the results. 

 So.....after reading his credentials, Dr. Friedrichs is from northern IL and grew up with a blind father and that got him interested into eye care.   He did his residency in ophthalmology at the U of Iowa.  I should be in good hands with this Midwestern guy. He was in private practice in IL and joined Collins Vision in 2020.   His specialty is cataracts and eyelids.

We bundled up to go for our afternoon walk and met Steven and Colleen from Boston.    They are renting next door for 10 days and in Fort Myers for a funeral...they also have 2 dogs (Beans and Phil)  "Philip" when they mean business 😂

What a nice surprise to hear from Josh and Gary today.....they are the guys who lived across the street a few years ago and we hoped to see them in Blue Ridge, GA when we stopped on our way down, but just missed them.    They've been on a 2-week trip and have bought another lot here at CT and will use it occasionally to "get away" and use the shed for inventory as they have a gift shop downtown.    Can't wait to see them sometime in December.

Enjoyed listening to wonderful patriotic tunes on this Veterans Day 2025.

Praying for Father Doug, former priest at Holy Trinity in Bloomington (his hometown) who had a heart attack a few nights ago.   He's in the hospital in critical condition.   Father Doug is 87, but been very active golfing, traveling, etc.   He married Philip and Annette and baptized Connor.

Congratulations to Blair and her friend Abby who won their school speech contest and now going onto county.

We had orange chicken from Trader Joe's for supper - that stuff is so yummy!

Looking across the street tonight...

Snow-capped mountains at Lake James

Thank you Michael