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Haha that’s one of our nicknames for her. I’m attaching a video I took this morning.

Enjoying breakfast under the gazebo with Victor and Zooey, wearing my new gorgeous robe, birthday gift from my daughters. Love you both 😍

We are enjoying our weekend visit. Dinner outside in the gazebo with Zooey running in and out of the fenced area but mostly lounging under my chair.

Photo courtesy of Andy (thanks Andy!)

This morning before our drive through Apopka, photo courtesy of my brother in law Andy. 🥰

Honoring all service men and women.

I made this for Victor who is s veteran of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan and a retired career Marine. He loved it of course.

My sister Holly and her husband Andy are visiting this weekend. We took them through the Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive this morning. We brought Zooey along too and she was perfectly behaved, spending a lot of time in my bag snoozing.

Haven’t agreed on a name yet. Our 10 week old Shih Tzu. We just got her home. Next to her is a toy puppy with a heart beat. (!) she snuggled up to me on the way home and already follows me around 😊.

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Vic took this and joking calls it a “rare Mohican Osprey”. The fish he’s eating is huge!! We love the way his feathers are fluffed up.

We’ve seen some beautiful Egrets lately. I want to share these with you.

These are great Egrets. The ones with the green highlighting their eyes are in breeding plumage.

we call this pose “”checking under the hood”

These are Snowy Egret, nicknamed “golden slippers”.

(above) This is my favorite photo – look at how beautiful the tail feathers are.

You can clearly see the green at his eye on this one. These birds are so beautiful, hope you enjoyed them!

I spent last week in Virginia, enjoyed seeing my family. The drudgery was finishing emptying my house and organizing painters, landscaping, etc to put it up for sale. A big shout out to Christopher Ball, my son in law. He helped me all week, hiring a helper, driving the U-Haul, making deliveries to Habitat for Humanity, Goodwill, and the rest to his house for me to go through and winnow down. He dedicated much of his time last time to help me however I needed it. I am very grateful for his help. I lived there for almost 30 years so part of me is sad but mostly I’m very happy to be free of that burden. Another shout out goes to my daughter Kelly Ball, who also helped me in so many ways including driving my Honda to FL with a little U-Haul carrying my precious sewing table and other quilting gear down here.

I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the play put on by the 5th and 6th graders at Ian’s school. Ian worked behind the scenes on the production. I enjoyed it very much.

Another one of the fun times was reading Bode some bedtime stories. Turns out Bode is a fan of Lowly Worm, one of Richard Scarry’s characters, as I am.