The weather is starting to cooperate, we have been able most evenings now to go outside for HH and a cigar, very pleasant. Jan is still creating wonderful dinners every evening, I even contribute once in awhile:-)
Last year we found a local restaurant, The Lobster Pound, yeah, here in Florida that has in addition to warm water fish, also a lot from New England, We stopped in for an excellent lunch, delicious clam chowder, maybe better than any we got in Maine, a fried haddock sandwich, but the star of the show was Jan's pan seared red snapper sandwich!
We completed a few small repairs and ordered a few parts, our fresh water hose needs to be replaced, it only lasts about 4-5 years because it spends its entire life out in the sun and gets brittle, in fact we had to cut 9' off to get to flexible hose.
One of the big things we have done is to shorten our time here in Florida by two weeks, we felt that as things keep developing up in Atlanta we need to be there not here. And speaking of that we have made real progress on the house plans, the final floor plan is done and over to the builder for his estimate, fingers crossed. Hoping to hear in a week or so. We made reservations in the Atlanta area to cover us if, or I guess I should say when we start building, back to those fingers crossed.
Then since our time here is waning we wanted to go a very favorite, actually two very favorite places, the first Saigon Bistro in Lakeland, we discovered several years ago, they make an incredible pho, and for me to go to Parkesdale Market near Plant City for the very, very best strawberry milkshake in the entire world, not that Jan agrees, she doesn't like strawberry milkshakes, can you imagine:-) No picture of the pho, I forgot.
We've met up with BIL Tom a few more times for lunches. Ran up to Earth Box Store nearby to get some supplies for a change, hoping to grow some veg this year, and looked over appliances to try to get familiar going forward.
A new restaurant opened up across the street, a small chain called Seasons 52, so we gave it a try, we were both impressed. Starting with a cup of amazingly delicious, rich savory mushroom soup, then Jan had a flatbread and side salad, and I had a tuna salad, very, very good.
We still have several more things on our agenda while here, numerous restaurants to go to, what can I say, washing the motorhome once the pollen stops, and other little chores.
When we stayed at Royal Coachman in Nokomis all these years we were very used to seeing gopher tortoises, in fact, there was a preserve right in the park, so we were very surprised when we went out the other afternoon and came face to face with an inquisitive guy right here in Bradenton.
So I'll ask you to cross your fingers for us as we are hoping for big progress in the next week or so.
