Coming to an End

Our little getaway is coming to an end and we are sadly looking forward to packing our stuff and heading back to the realty of being home in our day to day living. For Lee and I that will mean daily visits to the oncologist for radiation and me either following him and sitting reading in the waiting room or just staying home reading either way all sounds pretty strenuous lol. We have eaten out two nights at fish or seafood places Lazy Lobster the first night and Rotten Ralphs the next. Both were very good and reasonable priced. Last evening upon my suggestion we decided to just eat a late lunch especially since we always eat a late breakfast, then take our wine, cheese, fruit, bread, & crackers and go to the pavilion overlooking the ocean and watch the sunset. We ventured down early just to see what was going on with the weather. After sitting with the bugs buzzing us for a few minutes we came to the executive decision to eat in the apartment and then just take our wine down to watch the sunset which we did. It was another lovely sunset but then it started sprinkling and chased us in the house.
So far four adults have shared one bathroom with no major problems. A funny thing though yesterday I had been sitting watching Grays’ Anatomy when the natures call sent me to the bathroom. I noticed a razor and tooth brush sitting on the sink but didn’t think anything about it and proceeded to my task at hand when I heard Lee in the other room tell Jim well you snooze you lose, someone has taken your bathroom number. Sorry Jim! I had my sound cancelling earphones and didn’t realize Jim had been planning to go in for a shave. Other than that we have done very well sharing the bathroom and the small little apartment.
Our casualty’s so far are: Alma took a little tumble in the surf after being hit by a wave and skinned up her elbow, I being stubborn and declining to wear sunscreen now have the lobster face with raccoon eyes, Lee bumped into one of the dining room chairs and scratched his arm and both Jim and I are hobbling around with sore backs. Other than that we are all hale and hearty.
A delightful time was had by all.

Beach Week With Jim & Alma

July 26, 2010
Welll here we are at the beach and a fine little apartment in a lovely secluded setting it is. We have two bedrooms a living room, kitchen, dining room combined. It is right on the beach. The weather today was wonderful, hot but clear and beautiful. The water is refreshing and clear and turquoise blue.
Getting here was a riot. We have three opinionated people who each had their own opinion of how to get to the beach, and then Alma who just rolls with the flow. Then we had three GPS’s. We had good old reliable Sally who got confused and didn’t find US 301 when it was right there in front of her. Then we had the Goolge map program on my Droid and last but not least we had Almas iPad. Alma’s iPad and the Droid (google map) program ganged up on poor little Sally. Problem with Sally is her maps are out of date but ya know US 301 has been right there in the same place for at least 55 years at least when I first traveled it. I’m just saying. We finely just quit listening to the GPS’s and went where we wanted to and we found the place after a fashion. For dinner we went to the Lazy Lobster and had a wonderful meal. Then back to our little place to sit on the beach and watch the sun set. What adventures will we have tomorrow.

Guest Book and Beach Outing

For those lesser observant of my friends and family (like me ha ha) I have added a new feature to my blog. Up above the North to Alaska there is a guest book. Feel free to sign in and let me know who/where you are.

Beach Week:
After being house bound since the first of May and will be house bound for the next couple of months we are really getting itchy feet. So we were in the company of our good friends and came up with a little jaunt. After discussing and dismissing a few places we decided on the beach. My friend did all the leg work and came up with a beautiful spot and signed us up. Well wouldn't ya just know. The week (the only week) we decide to go there a tropical storm brewing out in the Gulf. Worst case scenario is we will all be blown to kingdom come or the best case scenario is we will sit in a motel room staring out at the rain. Oh will just our luck. One good point is we don't have to zip out in the rain every two hours with friend doggie!

Lee's Progress

An update on Lee's page

The Tale of The Dog or the Straw That Broke Jeannie's Back

Sadly to say we had to take Hannibal back where we got him from. He just proved to be too much for a pair of senior citizens to deal with. Between the constant walks in 100+ heat several times a day coming home changing cloths cooling off just to be back out in the heat in another 2 hours or so, never feeling quite clean as I was always sweaty and grungy from all the heat. Plus constantly getting the little dog out of one mess after another we, out of desperation, threw in the towel. Hopefully Hannibal will be adopted by someone with more energy and stamina than Lee and I. He really is a sweet little dog but some people are just not cut out to be dog parents. Guess I gave my all to my children. So we packaged him up and back to the pound he went. I felt so horrible about the whole process I just couldn't make myself hand him over. I gave that dastardly deed to Lee. Well we got to Animal services and I was to wait in the car. The heat that day was 98. I sat and sat and sat in the car. After 45 minutes and no Lee I went to see what was happening. He had worked his way to the front of this huge line of people dropping off doggies. One was a lawyer who being a typical lawyer wanted immediate attention. He was none to happy and voiced his thoughts to one of the workers of how inefficient and stupid this whole process was using a few four letter words. She finely told him if he was going to talk that way he could just leave. He had told me he had the ear of all the County Commissioners and all he has to do was pick up a phone to get assistance. One wonders why he was not making the call. I started to offer him my cell phone but decided to stand in the shade and be entertained by his ranting. Well Lee finished up a stack of paperwork 12 inches high (well maybe I exaggerate just a tiny bit) and we went home to a quiet peaceful house with thoughts of our experiment into pet ownership. Today as I write this I am sitting in my jammies in my 72 deg house. It is hot outside. I do not know how hot because I have not ventured out in two days except to go to the pool. Yesterday I did not take my jammies off until 2:30 when we went to the pool. Today I plan to do the same. I will wait for my healthy walks when the weather cools down a bit.

A new game

WOW NOW HERE'S A FUN NEW GAME!

So now we can't have toilet paper hanging on the roller like normal people or this is just one more door we have to keep closed. Whoops, back to the barking as I type.

Ways to Drive Mom Crazy

This little dog lays awake at night to think up ways to drive me crazy. I know he doesn't sleep at night because he lays his little furry behind up on the back of the couch and sleeps all day. Four of his latest little schemes to drive me over the edge:

1. He will sleep all day then when at night we are exhausted from taking him outside every hour or two so he won't have an accident he decides. ITS PLAY TIME! Now is the time to run back and for the through the house like a maniac propelling himself first at me like a bullet all the while scratching and biting at me then pounces at Lee trying to draw blood and usually succeeding, off one chair onto the couch back through the house and start all over again. This goes on until he wears him self out. Then he stretches out and sleeps some more.
2. Going out for potty. This has become a new game for him. The first few days he was so good. He would find his favorite spots and do his business. Now for two days we walk and walk and walk (in the miserable heat). He may piddle but for the big number he just won't focus. There are so many other things to do for fun. He is like a little vaccum cleaner. Every rock, piece of pine bark that has washed out of someones flower bed, every piece of paper, every mushroom growing wild along the way, every flower bush, every little twig. He thinks he has to eat all of these things. Then of course there are the people walking he has to socialize with and all the puppies to stop and talk to. All this results in an hour of me nudging him along getting nothing productive accomplished having him run in and out around my legs trying to trip me then finely getting the little devil home and getting out of my drenched clothing. Only to do it all over again in about 2 hours.
3. Today the fun thing to drive Mom crazy! LETS BARK AT EVERYTHING THAT MOVES OUTSIDE. After having Hannibal for over a week and never hearing a bark out of him while in the house. Today we discover barking at the outside world. He is laying in his favorite spot and barking incessantly at every twig or piece of leave that moves outside.
4. He has managed to destroy the "Hated Harness." He has chewed it almost completely in two. It is hanging by a thread. So today on his walk he had to wear the little choker leash we got from the pound when we picked him up. Thus bringing him even closer to my feet when we are walking. I guess today after Lee's daily Dr. appointment we must go to Pet smart and get one of those mesh harnesses. Maybe it will fit closer to the body and he can't get to it to chew.

I really think this little dog is bi-polar. Right now he is laying in his favorite spot being a good little boy.