Friday, March 6, 2026

One Week to Go

Amazingly, we are down to only one week left here in Florida, and if it sounded like I was complaining about all the cold weather, I can now say we are fully into warm and humid Florida weather now.  In this case it's welcome, we have been able to go outside, eat outside, have HH outside, and with the upcoming daylight savings time, we'll have even more daylight in the evening.  Why that is good we don't know, neither one of us is a fan, because being early risers we get to go back to it staying dark until after 730am :-(

We even got a couple chores done.  It was the first since my surgery that I was even able to help, bending is working better and better every day, but as the pictures show, Jan, the diesel mechanic did the brunt of the work.

We had to replace our water hose and it is easier and cheaper to replace the hose right along with the reel.  With the hose out in the sun every single day of its life it gets brittle and breaks, we had already lost 9 feet of it so it was obviously time.  Overall a pretty easy job except for the difficult access.

The backside where the hose connects into the motorhome

Jan trying to wrestle it out

The new one

In place and ready to wind up


Had to go back to the New England style place we liked and this time got awesome pan seared haddock sandwiches, of course had us dreaming of Maine.



We have two small ponds here in the park and had a brand new little visitor show up.

He is just a baby, only about 3 1/2 feet long


And in addition to meeting BIL Tom a few times, we were able to meet an old friend for lunch, Harvey.  We had a great visit!



And as far as the finger crossing for the house plans, we were able to get the final revisions submitted and are expecting all the final drawings early next week, so there is real progress being made, like anything worthwhile a lot of patience is required:-)