Monday Blues

We didn’t do much Monday because of the cold weather. I went on a walk in the morning while Jerry went to the gym.

In the afternoon we went for a walk in Marshall Swamp. It had turned warmer in the afternoon. While walking a wild turkey ran across the path in front of us. So far that is the only animal we have seen there besides a few smaller birds. There are a lot of deer tracks in there but none we have seen.

After dinner we went and got groceries. That was our exciting day. Hopefully it will warm up enough soon to go golfing.

Sunday was just as cold

Well, it was just as cold. The weather says that it will get a little warmer this week.

We got tired of laying around watching TV so we decided to do something. Jerry decided to go up to OBS to the OTB parlor. I dropped him off so I could go shopping. I went to the mall at Heathbrook. It is a mall were the shops are not connected. Luckily I could park close enough so I didn’t have to walk outside much. I found a couple of tops and a pair of dress slacks. I also got Jerry a new pair of sneakers.

After that I picked Jerry up and we went for a short drive west of Ocala. Ocala has a lot of horse ranches west and south of town. Jerry wanted to find George Steinbrenner's horse farm Kinsmen. I had looked it up on line so we had the address. We found it but I forgot the camera so I couldn’t take any pictures. I thought it would be more impressive looking but it looked like any other ranch out there. There was a big K on the gates but most ranches down here have fancy entrances.

After we got home Jerry watched the footballs games that were on and I read some blogs. I download them when I get a chance to go on line so I can read whenever I want to. I did go for a walk after we had dinner but Jerry was to involved in the ball games. Then after the game we went to grocery store to get a few groceries. Not an exciting day but …..

Snow on Saturday

We woke up to snow on Saturday. You could only see it if you looked closely.

This was taken through a window. I didn’t want to go out that early to take the picture. If you look closely you can see a couple of the leaves have died.

The rest of the day we didn’t do to much. We went to the gym at the club house in the afternoon. It was just to cold out to go out side and walk. That’s our day.

New Coffeepot

Friday we didn’t do to much. It was cold. When we went up to Gainesville yesterday I forgot to turn off the coffeepot. Luckily, there was some coffee in it, but it didn’t have an automatic shut off so the motor must have burnt out because when I tried to make coffee in the morning it would not work. So we had to go to Wal-Mart's to get a new one.

We didn’t do to much the rest of day.

Butterflies, Devils and Gators

Yesterday we went up to Gainesville to the Florida Natural History Museum to see the Butterfly Rainforest but the butterflies were not out because it was not warm enough. We saw the labs that they work in to help the butterflies from their larva state to the time their wings dry out. There was enough other exhibits in the museum of Florida past & present to keep us busy for awhile. The tour book said one hour minimum but we were there about two and a half hours.

In the afternoon we went to the Devil’s Millhopper Geological Park which is just north of Gainesville. It has a sinkhole that is 120 feet deep and 500 feet across. You can walk down a 232 step wooden walkway that descends to the bottom. Then we took a half-mile walk around the top.

This is one of the many small waterfalls that go to the bottom.

Here you can see it go into the ground.

This is a picture of Flo resting on hike around sinkhole.

Went we got done we wanted to go out to eat. Jerry asked me were I wanted to go so I told him that on Thursday's it was all you can of fish at Gator Joe’s. So we went all the way down to Lake Weir to Gator Joe’s.

It is an interesting place. Lake Weir is a small Lake southeast of Belleveiw. The picture of the sunset was taken thru a window so there are soon background lights in picture. Until tomorrow…

Jan 6, 2010

Sunday Jerry went up to OBS (Ocala Breeders Sales). Ocala is called the horse capital of the world. They also have off track betting. You can bet on tracks like Aqueduct, Belmont, Gulfstream, Tampa and a few more.

I dropped him off so I could go shopping. I went to the Paddock Mall. They had some after Christmas sales. I got a few things. Then I picked him up and came back to condo and walked around the area.

Yesterday, it was pretty cold so we stayed home and didn’t do much but tried to stay warm. Here is picture of bird that was behind our condo. I think it was a blue heron.

Today Jerry went back up to OBS and I stayed home to clean and go to clubhouse to catch up on blog. Take care.

COLD WINTER

I’m sorry that I don’t get to post much.  Here at the condo I don’t have internet so I have to go over to the clubhouse to get online. We have been taking it pretty easy here. We don’t get up until about 7:30. Then set around eating a light breakfast watching TV until we decide what we plan on doing. We went for a ride over to Cedar Keys the other day. It wasn’t to busy there because of the weather. We walked around and went into some of the shops there then went out on the pier where some fishermen were fishing for sheep's head fish.  I never heard of them but that's what they said. 

New years Eve day was nice so we went for  walk in the swamp near here. It isn’t wet in there so I don’t know why they call it a swamp. Maybe sometime of the years it gets wet. But it isn’t this time of year.     

For New Years Eve we went down to Jerry’s sister Bev and BIL John’s place in Belleview for a party. We all brought something to pass and had a good meal. Then we played pinochle which I haven’t played since we were first married.  We all had fun. We saw the new year come in then we all left.  Well, Happy New Year everybody.