A Great Wednesday!!

Today was a great day! We were expecting a severe storm-according to the weather forecast-we had maybe 10-15 minutes of rain if that. No thunder as forecasted-we were all prepared with awnings put away and chairs folded up. Now had we not been prepared it would probably have hit us hard. My only sadness today was my forever 'present' accidentally got broken. Rick was batting down the hatches and it fell off the table outside and smashed to smithereens.

My forever present is no more :(

Tomorrow we are forecasted to be sunny and warm at 78F. We can sure handle that.


I cleaned the MH this morning, did all the closet, reorganized all the drawers in the dresser, linen closet and kitchen drawers. Rick took a trip to Wally World to get a hair cut and pick up a few things.


I cooked a Cape Breton Jiggs Dinner-(boiled dinner) and today was a good cloudy day to eat a Jiggs dinner. Ham, potatoes, carrots, turnip, onions and cabbage all cooked in the same pot. Instead of water I do it 'Cape Breton' style and cook it in 'orange crush pop' or 'soda' for you american friends. I made biscuits, and we had triple layer coconut cake for desert.

Jiggs Dinner Cape Breton Style

Dee and Jim, and Debbie and Ken joined us for supper. Of course we had happy hour before supper, with yummy Friday's mudslides over ice.

Happy Hour Refreshments

Rick, Jim and Ken discussing world affairs

Ken Deb Dee and Jim chowing down 

 We had a great visit, lots of laughs-and I found a couple of teeny weeny ants strolling across the kitchen from under the slide and of course I freaked. Then they turned the discussion to stink bugs they've seen, and coral snakes, bugs etc  - hummm wonder what my chances are of having a sound sleep tonight-not too great I'd say. I do not like bugs,snakes or creatures of that nature, including ants. 

Debbie and Dee :)

After everyone left for home-of course Rick and I headed directly to walmart and picked up some 'stuff' and 'thingys' to take care of these ants. Plus a big fat jug to spray the outside around the tires and perimeter tomorrow. Bless Debbie's heart she arrived over after we got back offering us some ant thingys. I sent her home with cake for Ken because he didn't have his at supper. There were two pieces left. Before Rick could get the last piece Mr. Tucker helped himself when we weren't looking. Now hes' in the dog house, well kinda sorta

But you can't stay angry with that face too long-Lilly is there with him because she had frosting on her lips too!

A big shout out to my dear friend Linda back home. She informed me today, that she reads my blog every night and  sounded somewhat disappointed to see I hadn't blogged Monday night and I combo'd up on Tuesday. Sorry about that Linny I'll try really hard to ensure the blog is up daily. Notice I said try :)..it depends on how long happy hour lasts. Ha!!


A big thank you to Dee, Jim, Debbie and Ken for joining us for supper this evening. And a big thank you to the handsome guy below for all his help today~ you are definitely the 'marshmallow in my hot chocolate' honey!

So all in all it was a wonderful day here in Avon Park Florida. Does it really get any better than this?


Stay safe out there everyone!! 

Home is where you park it

"May your day be filled with blessings like the sun that lights the sky~and may you always have the courage to spread your wings and fly"

“Life is like a party. You invite a lot of people, some leave early, some stay, some laugh with you, some at you, some didn't come. But in the end, after the fun, there would be a few who would stay and help clean up the mess with you. And most of the time, those were the ones who didn't even make the mess: ) How true this is!!! “