Thursday - February 29

 Posted by Mark:

Started the day with therapy.  Jeff really has Pat doing lots of stretching!  From there we were off to Orthopedic Center of Florida for Pat's  EMG nerve test.  They do a number of electrical tests of various parts of her nerves.  Both the good hand/arm and the bad hand/arm.  She doesn't meet with the hand doctor for 2 weeks.  In 45 minutes she was all done.  Results would be available tomorrow, but the hand doctor is fully booked until 2 weeks.

Stopped for a coffee for Pat on way home.  Then light lunch at home.

Tonight we went to Cooper's Hawk with Buddy and Jo Ann.  They leave for North Carolina on Saturday.

Meal was excellent.  Just wish restaurants were quieter these days.

Buddy, Jo Ann, Pat, Mark

Traffic on 75 was very heavy so we took back road north.  Got home around 7-ish.

Wednesday - February 28

 Posted by Mark:

Another gorgeous day weather-wise.

Pat has the cleaning ladies come each year for a good inside cleaning of FLO.  They arrived about 8:15.  We then headed downtown to Peter's while they went at it in Flo.

I had a haircut this morning while Pat killed some time at Peter's.  Then we headed home to a very clean Flo.

This afternoon I got almost finished with all of my tax paperwork collection. Shouldn't take me much more later this week.

Tonight we went to Lucky 13.  Lydia was the only winner at our table.  For some reason the crowd was down a bit.  Everyone had a good time.

Tuesday - February 27

 Posted by Mark:

Started the day with therapy.  Jeff put Pat thru some serious stretching exercises.   But they did have time to talk about his work time in Marathon Florida.  I ran errands to Target.  Got back just a bit before she was done.

I worked on tax preparation stuff.  Pat did laundry.  Nice 80 degree day.

We left about 3:45 for the Gatlin show at Parrot Key on Fort Myers Beach.  Met Ken and Cathy there.  They live in the Venice, FL area, and live on their boat in Racine WI in the summer.  We first met them in Racine about 20 years ago.

Andrea and Darryl Gatlin

Ken and Cathy

I forgot to include a picture from yesterday.  At lunch Beth bought 3 desserts for the 3 ladies celebrating a February Birthday.  Of course they shared and it was delicious.

Birthday Ladies - Pat, Sybil, Anne

Brady's team won their first round in State Playoffs.  They play again Friday night.

Monday - February 26

 Posted by Mark:

Started the day very early.  Went to the same location that Pat gets therapy for my annual lab work.  Got there when they opened at 7 a.m.  Since I had to fast all night, decided to get it done early so I could eat at my usual time.   Also very little wait that early in the day.  Got home before Pat even realized I was gone.  😀

At 11:15 we picked up Jim and Lydia and were off to Babcock Ranch for Lunch with our Sister-in-law Beth and her friends. Joan and Joe also joined us from Arcadia driving down on their motorcycle. We went to The Lake House.  Had a very good meal and lots of gabbing.

Joe, Joan, Beth, Pat, Mark, Sybil, Jim, Lydia, Anne

Beth, Anne and Sybil have been friends for many years.  Anne lives down here now.

After we said our good byes to them, Joe and Joan showed us their motorcycle.  It is new to them this year. 

 

Joe, Joan

Around 4:30 we did a long walk around the park and picked up our mail.

At 6 p.m. we went over to Buddy and Jo Ann's for Fudge Pie with chocolate mint ice cream  Joe and Barb also joined us.  Had a good time chatting about everything.

Buddy, Jo Ann, Joe, Barb with lake fountain in background

Sunday - February 25

 Posted by Mark:

We left this morning to meet friends in Okeechobee for lunch.  Left plenty early to give us time to stop for coffee in LaBelle.  Tried out a new shop, just so-so.  Did not go the shortest route thru LaBelle as they had the Swamp Cabbage festival going on.  That area of town was a zoo.  Went by way of Moore Haven instead.

Met Jim and Shelly a bit before noon.  Had a great meal at Lightsey's in Okeechobee.  The place was packed.   Caught up on each others families, health etc.   

Mark, Pat, Jim, Shelly

Jim and Shelly are in Cocoa Beach the month of February.  The live in Northern WI.  They will come to Florida for 6 weeks next year.  Okeechobee was a good 1/2 meeting place for all of us.

We got back home around 4.

Michael was in Iowa City for business tomorrow so he went early to spend time with his son Drew and Liam.  Michael also went to the Iowa Women's game against Illinois, to see Caitlin Clark play.

Liam, Drew, Michael, and Joe (Liam's roommate from MN)

Did a short walk tonight.  Ended the day with zoom. Always good to catch up with everyone.  Doris was not there as she had her grandkids tonight.