Wednesday, February 20, 2013

We have noted that there is a lot of maintenance being done to this golf course every single day. This morning when I woke up shortly after 6:00am, I saw what I thought was flashes of lightning through our bedroom shutters. When I looked out the window, it was only the grounds crew grooming the course, running their machinery with headlights on. Later in the morning, I saw another piece of equipment with an attachment like I have seen used on the infield at baseball games. Golfers were on the course by that time, but they never let this interfere with their play. This must have been the same people I saw playing in the rain last week!

Fallen leaves don’t look the same here as at home!

 

We have done so much in the past 7 weeks that all we want to do now is nothing!!! So, we spent a couple of hours at the community swimming pool. I noted that 30 minutes in the hot sun sure seems to pass a lot slower than 30 minutes of searching for a geocache!

In the 17 months of our geocaching “career” we have not been to a site that concerned us as much as this one when we saw a nearby sign that warned us of venomous snakes. I will confess that we thought a bit before deciding to poke around this site! However, after scoping out the area from inside our geomobile and with the information we had, we decided to take a chance. We quickly spotted the likely place where the cache was hidden and made sure we trod heavily and loudly as we approached “ground zero”. We made a quick retrieval of the cache, signed the log and replaced it in record time—all the while keeping a nervous eye cast in every direction.

 While out an about this afternoon we spied a pair of shoes in the middle of the road at a crosswalk. I wonder what happened to the person who was wearing them!

 We ate dinner out tonight at a well know restaurant. Can you guess where we were?

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

After two days of really cool weather, today dawned with a promise of temperatures in the low 80’s—just perfect for me!

We ran some errands today—bank, post office, library, grocery store, etc. I continue to be amazed at how busy the post office has been every time I am there. Today there were 7 people in line ahead of me, 3 people filling out forms, and 6 people behind me.

There is a nice library here although I don’t think it is as large as the one in Prince Frederick. I stopped in to donate some paperback books that I have finished reading since we left Maryland at the end of December.

We also looked for some more geocaches today and some of them took us deeper into the woods. One is actually named Heart of the Jungle and that is exactly what it looked like.

 It was at a preserve and as we tried to reach the cache from one area, the path completely disappeared. 

We continued to plunge through the trees and undergrowth and eventually were stopped by water and fallen timber. We felt like explorers from another era even though we had modern technology. After some thought and discussion, we made our way out of the wilderness and back onto the main road. A short walk down the road brought us a likely geotrail which we took and soon found ourselves at Ground Zero. We were successful in locating the cache and we reminisced about our childhoods and when we liked to play treasure hunting with our friends.

While we were driving around today, we passed a huge pasture that had cows grazing in it. We have been by this field several times before, but today I saw an egret walking along with a cow. That is not something we see at home and come to think of it, I don’t think I have ever seen it before now. Neither animal seemed to be bothered by the other. Perhaps this is some type of symbiotic relationship.

On our way back to the condo, we made a quick stop at the grocery store. I think it was the first time we have spent under $20.00 for food since we have been here! I don't usually see large bags of produce in a regular grocery store. I found it interesting that there were 3 lb. bags of carrots displayed beside the smaller bags that I normally see. I wonder who would buy so many carrots at one time and what do they do with them? Could it be that Bugs Bunny is a snowbird, too?

While I was working on my computer on the lanai, a Great Blue Heron strolled by as it was hunting food. We have a heron on our lake at home but it never comes this close to us.

This day ended with another of God’s beautiful sunsets.

 

Monday, February 18, 2013

It was warmer here today, but still too cool for me to want to do anything outside. Late morning temperature was 64 degrees which isn't all that bad IF I were in Maryland.

 

By the afternoon it was near 70 degrees--still too cool for the swimming pool even if it is heated! I've been spoiled by the 80 degree days we have been having.  It is supposed to go back to 80 tomorrow and the rest of the week.

 

Cordell took a walk through our community today.

 

 

 I stayed in the entire day doing stuff on my computer, preparing cards and gifts for the mail, reading and just being lazy. It was a good day for taking naps---

 ---or just resting and looking out the bedroom window.

Tomorrow we will be outside again!!