Cell phone picture assortment

Here's some pictures from the last couple weeks on the cell phone.

Every year we come down here we buy 10 pounds of cracked pecans at the Broken Branch Farm....and here it is. We sit at our campsite and shell them the next several weeks.

Hey Zola.....we stopped at Papa Roccos for some warm beer and lousy pizza and IT WAS GOOD!

Here's a cotton field along AL59 &

Judy & Jody on the Gulf Shores Beach.

Patches doing what she does best......I taught her one of my favorite recreations and she practices it a lot.

Blue Angles Homecoming show

Well, I'm back. Since the last post we have been enjoying the nice weather with Craig & Jenny, HitchHiker friends who are here for most of the winter. We have been playing poker, euchre & cribbage; Judy played Bingo one night. Craig & I spend a few hours replacing a relay in our Electrical Management System. One power connection was loose causing it to overheat and damage the relay & melt some insulation. Today we went to Mobile & met Jody & Renato at Felix's for lunch to celebrate our 45 anniversary. Happy anniversary Charlie!!!

Our prayers are also now with Renato's younger (29 years old) brother who suffered a stroke Monday evening. He's in the hospital and slowly recovering while his doctors figure out what the next steps will be.

A week ago Friday we went with Jody & Renato plus Jenny & Craig to the Pensacola Naval Air Station all day for the Blue Angles Homecoming Air Show. We arrived at 9:30 and left after dark about 7:30. Although it was a long day we all enjoyed it.

Scary night

We went to Jody & Renato's for Halloween, Judy has been wanting to see trick or treaters for the last couple years and I think she had her fix Monday night. We drove over Saturday and went to Newks for supper, we really like their soups. Renato was busy decorating and his niece and nephew came over Sunday afternoon to carve their pumpkins. Monday night they had enough candy for the first 327 kids before running out of candy a little after 8pm. Judy moved her chair to the end of the sidewalk to let the kids know we were out of candy, they were still pouring in. We left at 8;30 returning to Gulf Shores and our own bed. Other than that we have been playing euchre, poker & Judy has been leading her water aerobics class. The weather has been real good and more snowbirds have been arriving. We have washed the truck & RV and been doing lots of small fix it & clean it tasks.

Week 1, 2011 winter Gulf Shores

Patches is enjoying it here. She likes going outside and loves her box which we put away for the summer & only bring out in the winter. Open windows, lots to watch & smell; cat life is good. Do you think Judy is going to shower with her cloths on or is she waxing the shower.....you figure it out. Everyone waxes their shower, right? HINT.....the old German isn't happy unless she is cleaning something. The day after the shower it was all the windows, window frames and screens. So far this week Judy has led water aerobics twice, I've played poker once, the first euchre is tonight, we've ate out 3 times (shrimp twice) & she's been shopping several times. Jean....we are thinking about you & your family, your in our prayers.

Happy B'day Judy, Arrived in Gulf Shores, settled for the winter

Today is Judy's 65th so we planned it to arrive in Gulf Shores, we are even on site #65! After setting up we headed to DeSoto's for ludin (lunch & dinner) so she could have stuffed shrimp & sweet potato casserole plus some lime pie. We stopped at the beach for the annual "hug a palm tree" picture. All is well & we are settled in for the long winters night. We started to visit with our snowbird friends that are already here. This place is almost full & it's early in the season, guess everyone will have to stop telling their friends to come here or we might not get a good spot!

Well, here only 6 hours and the rescue truck & ambulance has come in already.....and it's said that Florida is heaven (or hells) waiting room.....I think it's Gulf Breeze RV!

Renato BBQ's for the family

Today we spent the afternoon at Jody & Renato's, they had his family and us over for a cookout. Randy....you have some competition! Renato has 2 brothers & they were there with their wives & kids plus one's mom and Renato's mom. We also celebrated Judy's upcoming birthday & Judy got the crumbs.

When we returned home the peace & quite had returned, the Civil War has ended.

See yesterdays blog for an explination.