Great Weather. Big Smiles. Simple Things.

Let's start with the SpringingtheBlues Festival, Florida's largest Free Blues Festival. We got wristbands for Friday Night and sat up close. Then we set up camp both on the beach and in the grass on Saturday. It was a weekend you wished would never end.

There is nothing like leaving land, and hitting the beach. No matter what age.


Michele's hairdoo is not what you think. It was quite windy.



We love having company. Don't let David's face fool you.

These pics are for KD.....

I pulled in the driveway tonight and David had hosed the car down and Matthew was detailing the exterior...... His attention to detail was inspiring....yet his attention to what matches when he gets dressed...ummm... leads me to yelling at his mother.

Frogs and Dogs do not match with Camo SpongeBob pants.

OK?

We live here. We like it here.

It is the simple things. And the company that shares this with us.

Big Smiles.

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Just When the Back Started to Feel Better....

I just had to open my big mouth.

We are looking forward to company arriving from CT next Wednesday. Those poor souls and the Winter they've had...

I thought I'd better check and send a quick text to learn if there were any projects planned for this weekend, before they got here...

Holy crap. Less than 22 hours later, at 10am Saturday morning, our landlord has a dump truck backed into our driveway with 10 yards of Cypress mulch....it looked like Mt. St. Helens erupted in our front yard...

I lost count, but I am thinking that 10 yards equals maybe 60 wheelbarrow loads? Or was it 160? Ask my lower back?

We mulched the perimeter of the backyard, the freshly planted Jasmine along the side yard and along the majority of the front yard.

I finished at 5:30pm on Sunday. Oh my aching back.

Wheelbarrow load after wheelbarrow load pretty much sucked. It was an amazingly drone-like task.

But there was a flipside.

We experienced Beach Life Magic this week. When the flipside feels like something magical happens and it feels Beach related...

More on that mindset to follow!

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