Birthday party for a friend

We went to our neighbors birthday party this afternoon, weather was great and many people came.  I'm not sure it was for the birthday or for the party or both.

In the morning Don had a dental appointment, I went along and finished my book (Kindle) in the car and then we ate lunch out and went grocery shopping.  Don has to have a filling replaced, it came out when they were cleaning his teeth.  I always worry about that but guess if it come out it was loose in the first place.

Top of Harney Peak in the Black Hills

Saturday trip and Sunday job

We went out for breakfast as is our usual for Sunday morning.  It was so hard to get up in the dark after setting our clocks ahead for daylight savings time.  When we got home we decided to tackle putting in the new air pump in our Sleep Number mattress in our motorhome.  (We could hardly read the numbers on the old controls anymore, they were leashed to the pump which facilitated getting a new style pump with a remote.)  This job didn't sound too hard BUT ----

First we had to take apart the mattress and drag the parts into the living room.  Then take apart the platform on the bed as the pump was buried below.  Many screws had to be removed, the wood moved around and finally, there was the pump.  Getting the new pump installed was the easy part.  Then we had to do the whole process in reverse to get things back together.  I am surprised it didn't take more than 2 1/2 hours, a bit of lost patience and a few bruises for both of us.  Hopefully we won't have to do that again.

Yesterday we went for another ride in the "real" Florida (not the tourist Florida).  This is a picture from that trip.  This is a tree tunnel of live-oak trees.

Cold

It has been a cold day, didn't even get up to 60 degrees and a high west wind.  We ate at Captain D's in Dade City, every time someone opened the door the west wind would blow through and make it cold.  30's are forecast for tonight.  No, not spring in Florida yet.

Traveling

We went to Clermont to the monthly Escapees chapter meeting - this is where we travel 45 minutes to eat with our neighbors from our RV park.  It rained all the way there and back.  We usually do some shopping but didn't because of the rain.  It finally stopped raining early evening.

We drive by this twice every summer:

Eating out is what we do

Wow, a few nice days in a row.  Maybe there is a Spring!

We went to the excellent Mexican restaurant in Bushnell this evening.  This was our second trip to Bushnell today.  We went in earlier to Walmart (which was very busy) and CVS.  Then gas for the car and took home fish sandwiches from McDons for lunch.

What a shock to see my old yearbook picture on Facebook!

Weekend update

Saturday afternoon we drove some back roads on our way to Wildwood.  It is interesting to see the "real Florida" that you don't see along the interstate highways.  There are tree lined two lane roads, homes from the very meager to the very nice, livestock, fields, swamps, etc.  We ate at Steak n' Shake in Wildwood.

Today we went to Cracker Barrow for breakfast and then came home to read the papers.  We went to the Ice Cream Social at the clubhouse and later grilled ham for a late dinner.

We finally have had a few days of nice weather.