We are still at Merritt Island taking pictures at Black Point Drive. Reddish Egrets are so cool the way they “dance” through the water looking for fish. There are 3 or 4 here, the one in these pictures is the prettiest with his reddish mane. They don’t travel in groups, usually we see them one at a time.
We’ve been riding around and through Black Point Drive (Merritt Island) for the last few days. The Roseate Spoonbills are plentiful right now. Do you know what a large group of Spoonbills is called? A bowl. Isn’t that fun? We had so many great pictures this post is just Spoonbills.
We are staying in the parking lot of an Elks Lodge, we’ll be here for a few days. Word is they cook every night yippee. We are the only ones here for now, gotta love the quiet.
Thanks to Walt and Shane helping us get out of our space this morning and special thanks to Walt for finishing up the deck stairs. 💟
Here’s where we are. Stay tuned for bird photos from Black Point Drive. We are just a few miles from there and will spend a lot of time over there taking pictures.
We used Deck Correct to refinish our deck. It was a lot of work but we love the color.
We drove through Apopka on Sunday. There was little traffic the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend. An awful lot of people were stuck at airports or otherwise having a miserable time driving home so I’m sure that had something to do with it. The roads had been worked on since the last time we were there. Still not paved but didn’t see a single pothole so that was great. We saw tons of stuff including many alligators. No pelicans or spoonbills but lots of other birds. Here are our best shots.
We are sad to be leaving. Even though we had to suffer through another bout of covid we are in a beautiful place and have been very well care of by Holly and Justin. We so enjoyed the time we had with our two grandsons. Wish we lived closer than 1700 miles. Tomorrow starts our 8 day trek home to Florida.
We ate dinner with the Riders one night and enjoyed Justin’s homemade bread.
Holly made soup one night and it was not only delicious but pretty. Homemade broth, chicken with spinach.
Finn brought home his woodworking project. It’s very cool and he had a story to go with it about him in the water park. The class is taught by a local woman, 85 years old. I say she’s a national treasure.
Here’s a funny
These shots (by Vic) are from the day trip to Captiva in June.
This is from our day trip to Captiva back in June while we were staying at Geri’s house in Ft Meyers, FL
This is Zoe in her winter coat this morning walking around the cul de sac here in NH. It got down to 34 overnight. We had to get more propane this morning when we ran out about 7 am.
GOOD NEWS: covid test is negative !!!
This is from our day trip to Captiva back in June while we were staying at Geri’s house in Ft Meyers, FL
This is Zoe in her winter coat this morning walking around the cul de sac here in NH. It got down to 34 overnight. We had to get more propane this morning when we ran out about 7 am.
GOOD NEWS: covid test is negative !!!
Here we sit squatting on the cul de sac at Holly and Justin’s house. Total privacy, surrounded by beautiful fall foliage. We have been taking meds, drinking Hollys magic broth (she makes incredible homemade chicken broth) and running a vaporizer. It is all helping but not fast enough!
In addition Holly walks dinner down every night. We are feeling very spoiled!
Here’s what she or Justin (he’s a great cook too!) has made so far:
Roast pork with potatoes(Justin) (I made applesauce) back in the beginning of our visit when I felt ok)
Marty’s Chicken & Artichokes (Holly)
With snap peas and rice. She made the rest of this list.
Clams and linguine (lemon zest and fresh garlic)
SSS (Family Casserole, Betty Mann’s recipe)
Meatloaf with roasted butternut squash slices (yum)
Flank steak with tomato and chick pea salad
It rained on and off for several days but our solar is providing so much power we never went below 85%.
The foliage is fading but still very pretty.
Thankfully no one has caught it from us. We isolated when we thought it was a cold so that helped. Vic read on the internet that a person is contagious for 2 days before symptoms appear. That’s a scary thought! Kelly and Holly and Justin too were in our camper before the diagnosis and amazingly no one is showing symptoms. I am super thankful.
We plan to get some home testing kits tomorrow and hope we are negative. We are completely up to date on every booster available and it doesn’t seem like it makes a difference. No we aren’t in the hospital and we aren’t dead. Is that all there is? Jeez! I’ll still keep getting boosters as they come out because with my asthma I want all the help I can get but come on, I hope they get more effective prevention-wise.
Hope y’all are doing well.
Just for laughs here’s an alligator for you.
We went to the grocery, picked up a few things and got our flu shots a couple of days ago. Zoe was petted and gushed over again 😊.
On the way back we saw these great Halloween yard displays.
Zoe and I walked up Farm Road
Our camper is parked in a great spot on a cul de sac close to Holly snd Justin’s house.
Rider dogs: Winnie a golden lab and Punkin a Pomeranian
Vic and I started feeling poorly on Tuesday. We thought it was a cold. Wednesday we felt better. Thursday we felt worse and today we tested positive for Covid. We had covid once at the end of June. We got the omicron booster 3 weeks ago. We hope that means it won’t be as bad this time. We are here until we recover. No way do we want to drive home 1500 miles not feeling well.
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