TIS THE SEASON . . .

Alison fly's here today.....tis the season to be jolly ! ! We have plenty planned while she is here. We phoned her this morning to make sure she was up.....don't want her to miss the plane ! I told her I was going to teach her how to make a great pie crust....

HOW 'BOUT 70 DEGREES IN DECEMBER . . .

OK Andrea, here's a new post ! I've been avoiding doing it as our computer will not allow me to post photos anymore. Gale is able to do it on his laptop so I'm having him help me with it now. I know that I need to not feel like I must always put photos on my blog, but to me it seems to really liven it up ! So after dinner this evening I decided to take this photo to share. It's our inside thermometer that registers the outside temperature.....how 'bout that.....70 degrees on December 19 ! We will sooooooooo miss this kind of winter weather when we are back living in Michigan again, but we will sooooooooo enjoy being back with family !

OUR LITTLE TRIP TO FLORIDA.....

Gale, Joel and I took a Thanksgiving vacation to Florida. We stayed at the Mayport Naval Station Lodging in Jacksonville. Here are some photos of our trip:

Gale and Joel at Fort Clinch In 1842, the United States government purchased a tract of land on the northern end of Amelia Island, at the Florida-Georgia border. A military installation was to be built on the property, to guard the mouth of the St. Mary's River, protect coastal and interior shipping, and defend the deepwater port of Fernandina, Florida. Construction began in 1847 on Fort Clinch, named in honor of General Duncan Lamont Clinch, a respected officer who fought bravely in the Second Seminole War. Being judged no longer of military value, the U.S. government sold the reservation to private interests in 1926. In 1935, the State of Florida bought the fort and property surrounding it for preservation and outdoor recreation opportunities. Then, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) developed the property into Fort Clinch State Park.

A cute little crab on the beach

and a jellyfish.......

Today is Wednesday, Nov12th. It's been raining and thundering. I've been working in my craft/guest room and opened the cedar chest. I decided to get rid of my bottle of"NOT GREEN" ketchup as a few spots on the plastic bottle are looking "weakened".......that would be a terrible mess to find ketchup all over everything someday. I did think it was quite amusing the titles that Heinz put on some of their ketchup bottles. I don't know if they are still doing that or not.

Jack-O-Lantern

Joel and I carved some pumpkins. He did the Wolf and Skull. I did the stars and mine is done on an artificial pumpkin.

MOVIE OR DENTIST . . .

Wednesday October 29th 2008

Today, Gale went to the dentist and I went to a movie with my friend/neighbor, Helen. I think I had the better deal ! We enjoyed watching "The Secret Life of Bee's". There were only 4 other people in the theater.....

TREE

This is a EUCALYPTUS TREE in a neighbors yard. I don't think I've ever seen one before.

MUSHROOMS

Seems to be a lot of different sizes and colors of mushrooms here and there . This one is big that all grew in just one bunch in the front yard. Try double clicking to get a better view . . .

TAKE A LOOK AT THESE:

These are two "new" things to us Michiganders here in South Carolina......

ANYONE FOR A GAME OF SCRABBLE ?

Check out the letters I recently had in a scrabble game. You can guess I dumped them all back in and lost a turn. I still beat Gale in the end........

WELCOME TO MY BLOG....MY FIRST POST:

Well here I go again trying to create my own "blog". We'll see what happens ! I just returned from taking stuff to the Windsor United Methodist Church here in Columbia, SC for the rummage sale they are having on Saturday. Today I have fall/halloween items down from the attic that I need to get arranged.