Wednesday - November 4

 A nice sunny, warm day after all the rain.    We walked and then left for my dermatologist appt. with Dr. Kagen.    He was checking my legs and the skin condition he's treating "Porokeratosis".    He was pleased with how my legs looked (very red but that means the latest medicine is working).    Now I'm to use aquaphor and see him in 6 weeks.

Next stop was lunch for Mark (3 Pepper Burrito Co.) and a Starbucks iced coffee for me. 

  I had my 1st of 6 appts. today with Dr. Lee starting the 3 root canals.    Wasn't too bad.   He said I have a very healthy mouth, but no reason why these things happen that I should get 3 all at once.    He said I was the 3rd patient today who had never had a root canal - very unusual as most people have at least one or many!!!

While I was in the dental chair, Mark was running errands, walking at the mall, etc.

Had a nice chat with my Aunt Marian who is 98 today - what an inspiration she is!!!

Another fun evening playing Lucky 13 and I was a winner!    Smaller group tonight of just 5 tables.

Tuesday - November 3

 Boy these mornings are crazy humid and getting plenty of rain, but nothing like Brevard County, Melbourne, Cocoa Beach (where my cousin lives - 12-15").  So much flooding.

Got our walks in and then enjoyed the AC catching up on stuff and did some online Christmas shopping along with 2 loads of laundry.

Around 2:30, the heavens opened up BIG time....it poured cats and dogs, buckets, a real gully washer coming straight down!   WOW...along with some loud booms of thunder.  

We left at 4:30 to meet Jim, Lydia, John and Beth at Courtney's - 1 hour trip for us - rained most of the way and rush-hour traffic.    But all worth it to hang out with these folks and enjoy a great meal and lively conversation (health issues, the main topic, of course)!    Very enjoyable evening.

Beth, Lydia, Jim, Mark, John, Pat

We were only home about 10 minutes and the rain started again....

 

Monday - November 2

 96% humidity this morning - whew, a very drippy walk....most of the rain all went north big time.   We did get a shower around 9:15.

I played canasta and lost again...........Vicki, Lisa and Becky beat Betty Jo, Becky and me by a LOT!    But still fun and imagine that 4 of us (Vicki, Becky, Lisa and I all have a "Mark" in our life as in our hubbies)  

I won't be able to play rest of this week; Euchre and Rummikube will start in January.

We left soon as I got home and stopped at Culver's for a small ice cream cup (pumpkin pecan for me; chocolate for Mark) to tide us over.   Then to the eye Dr. for Mark's exam with Dr. Alessi.    All good for another year.

Then to Dollar Tree and Mark thought Chinese sounded good, so...China Dragon was next stop - ok but not returning anytime soon.   Last stop was meeting with our financial advisor and finally home at 5 just before the next batch of rain started.  

We bought some cranberry white chocolate bread at Publix yesterday - oh my.......especially toasted!

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