Ramblings

It's been a few days since I posted.  I was feeling under the weather for a few days, so just took it easy.  We've been visiting with my mom quite a bit, she's a bit up and down with her health and the cancer.  It is taking a toll on her body and her emotions.  All things considered she is doing great!
Jason and Jan went to Universal one day, the party pooper stayed back and did a few items on our list.
We had a couple nice evenings with friends, and some great food.
We made reservations for Mar and April of next year, good we did when we did, we got the last site!  Season in Florida, don't you know.
We inquired about putting Vern and Viv's place up for sale and will list it on Monday.  She won't be able to come back to it and it isn't worth keeping.  The market is extremely soft, but time will tell.
Managed to waste a bunch of time yesterday with a nail in one Jeep tire, thankfully we were able to pump it up and then get it repaired.  Has anyone patched a tire recently?  The going price is over $20!!
Our repair on the Aquahot is doing wonderfully.
I was able to alter my work schedule a bit so am planning to take my "last" check ride a week from Monday.
We are going to leave the kayaks here in Florida for the time being, and maybe Jan's bike.
We had a nice evening with Joyce last nite, she is doing great!!
We think the air problem with the motorhome is finally completely fixed.  It finally ran this am, after more than a week for only 10 seconds.  Yippee.
Happy 38th Anniversary to Jan and I!  How she puts up with me is amazing.
Weather has been really great, low temps and humidity, but it looks like it's coming to an end.  Rain and wind for the next few days.
Bye for now.

Kayak Day

Jan and I got together early with Ray and April to go kayaking on the Myakka River.  It was a beautiful day, cool, and amazingly enough with no humidity.  A cold front went through last night drying things out.  We took a leisurely paddle up stream.

Had some visitors, or I guess I should say we visited a few guys along the way.  We got these two pictures, but didn't have time to get a picture of the big alligator that disappeared under water with our approach.

The river is a winding, fairly narrow waterway with lots of overhanging vegetation.  Nice and quiet, it's like you are all alone except for your friends leading the way.

We stayed out about 3 hours, did about 4 miles, upstream first and back downstream to finish, just how we like it.

Except for one little mishap it was a great morning.  Ray was up their little ladder tying one kayak on their car when he lost his balance, fell back off the ladder and unfortunately stepped back and off a banking to come to rest on his back in a bunch of brambles.  Luckily he wasn't hurt, just scratched up and most likely a little stiff by next morning.  We all recovered along with Jason's company with a great New England lunch at Bit of Boston!  Clam chowda, haddock, and fried clams.  Yum, yum.