the Beach

seems like the day just flew by... we were up til 3 am Friday night or Sat morning... just snacking and getting settled in... didn't get back from the airport til around 12:30am...

then we got up early on Sat... played tennis and then went to the beach... we were all tired but you would have never really know it...

we had boneless chicken breasts AND center sliced ham for dinner with a baked potato... the favorite drink seems to be something Lilly picked out... Canada Dry GREEN TEA GINGER ALE...

then Woody and Colin played games and read til bed time... Woody started and finished Dan Brown's DIGITAL FORTRESS... couldn't tell if Woody thought it was any good or not... it was Brown's first novel from 1998... didn't realize he has another one coming out called THE SOLOMON KEY... consensus is that ANGELS n DEMONS is the best...

anyway, Woody wants to play more tennis and basketball on Sunday... after tennis yesterday we stopped by a yard sale and picked up a basketball...

so will the boys play tennis and basketball, Lilly and I might do the Venice Arts Festival today...

http://artfestival.com/events/visitorsShow/79/1

Friday morn

peddled on the Legacy Trail for half an hour yesterday... that was fun... did a lot of housework with Lilly... busy day again... getting ready for Woody...

Overnight

a busy day yesterday getting ready for Woody... then I jogged a couple miles right at sunset... and feel like I pigged out for dinner and dessert...

made a bag Martha White muffin mix into one huge choc chip muffin in a round cake pan dish... topped with powdered sugar... it is really good...

just now looking up the Legacy Bike Trail... nice project... don't know how much of it is completed...

http://scg.co.sarasota.fl.us/rails-to-trails/TrailMaps.asp

http://scg.co.sarasota.fl.us/rails-to-trails/documents/Legacy_Trail_under_const.pdf

more Mom

I think Mom will be okay... we kind of figured out that she is taking too much blood pressure medicine... don't know why her doctor increased the dosage so much... but now I think her blood pressure is too low and that is why she fell so much... need to get her to reduce the dosage...

Mom on Monday

Wow, mom fell three times on Monday... she is sore and wonders how she will feel when she gets up on Tuesday... wondering if she is just bruised and scraped up or if she's worse and has to go to the hospital???

Woody n Colin

we're all excited... they are coming for Spring Break...

LIVES and Time Passes

Al Stewart & Peter White

It was late in December, the sky turned to snow
All round the day was going down slow
Night like a river beginning to flow
I felt the beat of my mind go
Drifting into time passages
Years go falling in the fading light
Time passages
Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight

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Feb is gone and so are other things...

just read about Siegfried n Roy taking a final bow and then the Obits of Paul n Angel Harvey... and the some baseball history including Cornelius McGillicuddy, Sr.
and yesterday there was a story about Ed McMahon being sick and hospitalized and there were a couple funny/sick comments people wrote in like:

I hope you practicing, " Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Jehovah!!!"

And another, "See you soon, Ed." Johnny Carson

and all this ties into watching the OSCARS again this year... time passes... everyone is getting OLDER...

:)

but I got onto McGillicuddy by reading about the IV's political activity... CPAC had about 9,000 people talking about the future of the Republican Party etc...

it is all interesting cause I think everyone likes PUBLIC SCHOOLS and many other things...

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thinking that the work and future is up to the ENERGETIC !!! and that how to do things is influenced by how people think... how people acquire thinking patterns is part rational and partly irrational... and it takes a lot of EDUCATION to know the difference... and a lot of EDUCATION to overcome acquired habits of thought and action... it is very hard to overcome ones birth...