Sunday - November 1

 A rainy Sunday......started with sprinkles and drizzle.    We were up early with the time change an decided to have breakfast before church.    The Oasis, a favorite downtown breakfast/lunch place has new owners (the folks had it for many years and had such a big success but retired and a new guy came in and did a major remodel and renamed it "Fort Myers Brunch".    It's very nice - much brighter with all new furniture, paint, wall decor, etc.   Food was good as ever, too.   I told our waitress who we recognized from The Oasis (been there 20 years) that the only improvement would be to add an espresso machine....she totally agreed!  😋

Then we were off to 9:30 Mass with Father Steve.  Today is the Solemnity of All Saints.  Bigger crowd - snowbirds are gradually coming back.

Stopped at Publix for a few groceries, a latte for me at Chocolatte and on home.    We had just carried in the groceries when it started raining and it's been coming down (very heavy at times) all afternoon, to continue tonight and into tomorrow.    Good afternoon to just hunker down.

Philip, Annette, Luke and Maeve enjoyed their weekend visiting friends in Georgia and what a treat to see the Blue Angels perform yesterday in Peachtree City.

Terrible tragedy in West Palm this afternoon - plane crash that killed nine enroute to the Bahamas.

9 on zoom tonight....Halloween - Janet had 1000 kiddos; Tom and Beth's new neighborhood in Ohio does Halloween on 2 different nights; update on Doris's daughter-in-law, Michelle, dental stuff; all the rain we had and nothing at Shell Point where Jim and Lydia live.    

Have a good week....

Halloween - 2026

 I made egg/sausage/cheese omelets and toast for breakfast and then we went for a sticky walk!   The humidity has been something the past few days!

I washed Flo's windows + the screens and sills.    Big job to have out of the way.    And then..........Saturday college football.    All 3 of my teams started at noon and all 3 WON!!!    I was changing those channels back 'n forth between the 3 games!   

Very exciting afternoon with Notre Dame beating Navy 35-13; Iowa winning over Wisconsin 30-0 and Illinois upsetting Maryland on a last-second play 20-17.

Blair did facetime with me all about Christmas + showing me some new clothes she got.

We walked to the clubhouse parking lot for Big Papa's BBQ food truck - we both had the BBQ sundaes which are so good.   Layers of pulled pork, cole slaw and baked beans.   We also got some peach cobbler!

We had some rain at 5:45 - naturally with my nice clean windows!   

Maeve, our zombie cheerleader

Luke (all black) and Maeve with their friends in Georgia

Enjoy that extra hour of sleep

Friday - October 30

 It was humid when we walked and already 75.    I played canasta and along with Sandy and Vicki B, we lost to Lisa W, Lisa ? and Sue - close game again!   Mark gave Flo a good scrubbing. 

Home for lunch and then I held the ladder while Mark washed Flo's roof.    Windows tomorrow.   Sure looks like rain, but very spotty.   At 3, we did get a very brief shower.

We walked after supper - nice breeze.    

This plant is in abundance here at CT.   Not sure what it's called, but....really blooming big time now.

Just one of many

And this little one is getting started but doing well on our lot

My Monday Night Friends have been sending some cute pics of their grandchildren dressed up for Halloween.    Our Maeve and Luke are visiting friends in Georgia this weekend....

Jack and Luke on the golf course

 

Maeve has got some serious "claws" going on before Halloween!

H A P P Y   H A L L O W E E N !!!

Thursday - October 29

 Warm sunny day - started out with a walk, breakfast and then to Coffee Rush (a favorite coffee shop - just drive-thru) for our fix (their white chocolate maple latte is sooo good).    Mark had his usual decaf Americano and a cheese Danish.   We were sitting in the car and from the time Mark ordered, she took our $ and delivered coffee/food, the gal said "perfect" TEN times.   I started counting and when she got to 5x, I thought "wow, this is it" and she continued 5 more times.   Oh well....just something we find humorous!    Doesn't take much for us to have a good laugh!

Then more errands, including new tennies for each of us (Snyderman's Shoes is a great place and their staff is so knowledgeable.)   They know when new shoes are in need from how the soles look.   So, we walked out with some classy comfort and will be great for walking!    Also got some new sunglasses (me).   So, a $$$ morning but fun 😊

Off to Cristof's to meet Rog and Martin for lunch.    They were our next-door neighbors here at CT for a few years before they got out of RVing and bought a condo.    It's always fun to get together and catch up and we had lots to yak about over a delicious lunch + a shared "bomb" - round ball of spumoni surrounded by dark chocolate hard shell - DELISH (a favorite for Claire and I when we eat here).    We shared this (well, not Martin as he's not into chocolate 😟).

We asked our waitress to take our picture and she said "do you want me to clear the table first"?    We said "no, that's ok" and she said "well, you can always ask Chat GPT."  

Mark, Pat, Rog, Martin

messy table

 We laughed and when we got home, that's exactly what techie Mark did.............tah dah!!!

Same people; no mess!    Ha....

Said our goodbyes after 2+ hours and on home for us!   Mark took a nap.   I enjoyed puzzles (obsessed with these and the fall ones are out - so many really neat ones)!   LOVE my puzzles!

Wednesday - October 28

 Wacky (or as Blair would say "wonky") weather day - dreary and misty, then sun, drizzle, sun, heavier rain, sun and on it went.    We were out and about and it poured and a few miles down the road....dry as could be!

I played canasta and lost at the very end - Vicki B, Vicki F and I could not pull out the win to Vicki H, Becky and Sandy.    There are so many Lisa's and Vicki's in the park with more to come!

We had planned to wash Flo this afternoon but not with the icky weather + it was very windy.    So decided to go grab some lunch and run a bunch of errands.    We had several gift cards to restaurants, so today, chose Panera as it was close to other stops.    Got several errands out of the way and then home sweet home for naps!

While I was playing canasta, Mark was dealing with doctor offices, changing his scheduled colonoscopy, making appts, etc.    Arghhh what a struggle.    Gone are the days when we all had one main doctor and no issue scheduling this or that.   He talked to the scheduler for his cardiologist (changed from October to November and now January).    He is on a cancellation list but the next available appt. is June.    Crazy.....and after his colonoscopy they want Mark to meet with Michael, APRN to go over the results.....the procedure is in February but can't get in with Michael till late April and we'll be gone.   Just nuts and frustrating!

Tonight we played Lucky 13 (bingo with cards) at the clubhouse and I won 2x for $26.50. We had 6 tables and fun as always.   We sat with Jerry and Barb from NJ, Beverly and Danny from KY and Lisa and Kenny from NC.    This game originated back in 2014 when CT first opened.