Wordless Wednesday-Flutterbyes

This was taken at the Butterfly House in Key West

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Happy Birthday David

My oldest "baby" turned 44 today!!! Geez, how can that be--unless I was a very young child bride. Oh, that's right, you already know that I turned 70 in January. Oh well. Anyway, Dave, you have always made us proud. Happy Birthday and many, many more.

Wasn't he a cutie??

You gotta love that smile!

Yup, that's Dave up there on top. This is what I called the Freddie Mount. Dave was Freddie Falcon, the Bowling Green State University mascot in 1985-1986. This was shot at the Raisin Bowl Game in Fresno, California.

Graduation from Bowling Green State University.

Dave in one of his sillier moments with son Sam.

Dave with daughter, Erin, and nephew Noah.

One of my favorite pictures of Dave. Here he is with nephew, Ethan.

Once again, Happy Birthday Dave. You are a great son and brother, a loving dad and husband, a favorite uncle, and a trusted friend of many. You are the best!!

Wordless Wednesday-Hands Across America

Ok, who remembers Hands Across America back in 1986? I bet my daughter does!! She participated. LOL.

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The Edmund Fitzgerald

I was going through a bunch of old pictures and happened upon these two. So, why, you ask--or maybe you didn't--would I be interested in the Edmund Fitzgerald? It's probably because I grew up in Michigan, the Great Lakes State. I lived just a few miles from Lake Huron and learned to swim there. I have vacationed on all five lakes, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Superior, Lake Ontario and Lake Michigan. The lakes have a fascinating history with all of the lighthouses, storms, shipwrecks, Native Americans etc. When my children were about 8 and 10, we took a trip to the Upper Penninsula of Michigan and took a boat trip through the Soo Locks at Sault Saint Marie, Michigan. While going through the locks, I of course took lots of pictures. About a year later, the awful news came that the Edmund Fitzgerald had sunk in Lake Superior. At the time the name sounded familiar but I didn't know why. I was very interested because many of the men who were on the ship were from nearby Toledo, Ohio and from other Ohio towns and cities. And who can forget Gordon Lightfoot's beautiful song about the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Years later, my daughter was going through our old slides and came to me with several and said, "Does this say what I think it says?" I held it up to the light and there was a picture of the kids and me sitting on our tour boat going through the Locks and in the background was another ship----the Edmund Fitzgerald!!! There were also 3 other pictures of the ship--front, back, and the whole ship. Unfortunately, the slide of the 3 of us has disappeared but I did manage to keep the other 3 safe. For Christmas one year, I had the three pictures blown up and framed for our son who was really fascinated with the EF.

So, for no other reason than I love these pictures, I'm posting the two that I have on my computer here on my blog. Enjoy.

Now You See It, Now You Don't

In case you hadn't heard, last night was a total eclipse of the moon. We started the evening on the causeway at Periwinkle Park's Full Moon Potluck. This happens once a month and is a time where the sun sets on one side of the causeway and the moon rises on the other just a few minutes apart. It is pretty amazing. About 20-30 people from our trailer park meet on the causeway to enjoy the view, the company, and obviously, the food

There were lots of clouds last night so sunset was a bust and we were afraid that moonrise and the eclipse would be too. But low and behold, the moon cleared the clouds and was beautiful--for about 2 minutes.



So Mr. Snowbird and I decided to pack up and go home. By the time we got home, we noticed that the clouds were starting to clear and lo and behold, when we went out on our deck, there was the moon right there in front of us. Beautiful. So, about 8:43, we headed out with a couple of glasses and a bottle of adult beverage, sat in our new gravity chairs, and enjoyed nature's spectacular show. I decided to take some pictures. I tried a couple with my camera on night setting but wasn't too thrilled so I switched to automatic and got some great shots. Obviously I have zoom on my camera but as you can tell, not a sooper dooper zoomer. But--I was thrilled with the pictures just the same. So, I thought, for those of you that didn't get to see it because it was too cloudy, because it was too cold to go out and check, because you were feeding kids and couldn't get away, because you just plain forgot, or because you just didn't give a darn, I would share some of my pictures. Enjoy. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention---later on the 11:00 news, they showed a weather map of Florida and at the time of the eclipse clouds covered most of the state except for our little corner of the world. How cool is that?

I tried to get earlier pictures but they didn't turn out too good.

I love the way you can see the rest of the moon.

Getting there.

Just a sliver.

Less than a sliver.

All gone.

Almost full again.

And there you have it, full again.

Isn't nature amazing?

FINALLY--the Remodeling is DONE

Today, Bob the Blind Guy came and installed our new living room blinds. We ordered them a looonnnggg time ago but between our vacation to San Diego and our visit from Bob, we couldn't get together with Bob the Blind Guy. So, today he was on the island and came and installed our beautiful new blinds. We were amazed that the blinds actually match the molding. We are very happy with them. So, finally, the remodeling is DONE!!!!

Wordless Wednesday-Time for a Little Lovin'

When an Egret's face is green, that means it's time to look for a mate!!

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