January 30th

Had a good fort day Friday, nice weather, lots of 4th grade school groups-  Did 5 cannon shots.

Today, Bette, Wendy Cole and I went to the Flea Market, then down to Theo's for breakfast, then Hobby Lobby, then Tuesday morning.  Jeez!  Didn't buy too much. 

Saw these plates today- 

All the Lander grading is done for the weekend-  Fort tomorrow- next week is a busy week- heading to Mayport Naval Station with Andy on Tuesday, then Thursday we are off for a River City Campers trip to Umatilla Fl for 4 days.  Bette has an esophageal procedure on Wednesday.  Busy Busy!

January 27th

Lots of light but steady rain last night on into the early morning, thought I might not go Forting, but it cleared up so I did go in. 
Glad I did-  I did the first for me "Ranger talk", normally a Ranger does it, but Mike said I was ready for it, so I did for an audience of 15.  Yay me!

Nice balanced day with nice visitors- 

Saw these plates today:

 

Made plans today for Feb 27th to head up to St Simons Island for the day for a Gullah Geechee festival- love those and the culture of it as well.  As an old Beaufortonian, I love that stuff!

Jan 25th

Did the fort both yesterday and today-  Very cold yesterday, today, not so much.  Pleasant day with lots of older visitors.

Bette had a busy day, PA appt first thing for her shoulder, got a shot.  Then Maj Jong, then PT for her shoulder, now she's playing cards at the girls.

Brandon reports he's doing fine from his shoulder surgery, so good for that.

Saw these plates today, plus a couple of county plates for Iowa:

Tomorrow is dinner at O'Steens with the McCaws-  the Coles are out of town. 

Warmer weather is returning! 

January 22nd

Busy busy day at the Fort today-  Started out bad rain, cooler, then the skies cleared up-  Lots of kiddie groups today.

Saw these plates today:

Bingo tonight, Fort Sunday, weather permitting.  Liar's club in the morning, then lots of Lander grading to do tomorrow.  

January 20th Also busy today

Up early, had niece Harlequin spend the night on her way to get cousin Jen down at Daytona, then to Liar's Club for an hour, then Bette and I headed on down to Alliance in Wildwood to fetch the motor home, which had resided for a couple of months, to get the dashboard control module repaired, since we didn't have any gauges, and we hoped have a window blind repaired-
Controller OK, blinds not.  Next time.

Also today oldest Grandson Brandon underwent surgery on his shoulder-  he originally dislocated it playing basketball last semester-  led to complications, which hopefully were repaired today in a two hour procedure.  Both Bette and I have had shoulder operations as well-  He's got several months of recovery and rehab.  Feel for you buddy! 

Before,

 

After:

 

 

Saw a couple new plates on the way down and back from Wildwood:

 

 

 

Got some schoolwork to do tonight and tomorrow-  Fort on Friday...Bette has PT tomorrow, and I have men's lunch.   

 



January 19th Busy day!

Crazy wild day at the Fort yesterday, bet we had 5000+ visitors-  It was a fee free day, thanks to Martin Luther King birthday, so everyone it seems from miles around came to take advantage.

Seen 49/62 possible plates so far this month.

Saw Dr Perez for my RA- no big news there, my labs were all good.

Tomorrow, we are headed to Wildwood to pick up the RV- since it's ready. 

January 15th Back in Florida..

Pretty much a whirlwind trip-  busy Lander week, doing house chores, then got home today about 1230. 

Saw lots of plates on the way down....

January 6th

Took a day off from Forting today- rainy and windy and chilly!  Worked on the Summer Trip to Maine decided to head up to Northern Aroostook County which we've not been to way up in the North of Maine, then swing back by Northport and see Dutch in Belfast. 

Then back I guess to Moody, since Tracy wants to come up around Labor Day-  then we start back, stopping for a day or two in Jersey, then Greencastle to see the Ritz's/Clevers, then on back to SC for a few days. 

Saw these plates in last couple of days:

Tomorrow is pack and load for South Carolina, then heading out for 7 new counties in Georgia on the way to Carolina, Friday morning about 0915 or so. 

January 4th

Busy cloudy rainy day at the Fort-  we got off 3/5 cannon shots in between the rain drops-

Not Forting today, so Bette can use the car to go Doctoring- and then to PT. 

Short week this week, since I head up to SC on Friday morning- 

Weather finally got coolish for us-  down in the low 50's this morning, but supposed to be up in the 70's by mid week.

Saw these plates yesterday:

January 3rd

Rained most of the night-  Supposed to work at the Fort today, may at least go in, and see what the crowd level is- 

Chilled out yesterday went to the hot tub and talked with Lew for the evening- 

Good plate day yesterday found 16 plates! 

Not much else to report

January 1st

Happy New Year!  We are dog sitting Bexar today for Porter and Bill while they head down to Orlando for the bowl game- 

Quiet night, in bed by 9 

Here are the plate totals for December:

 

Got 52 of 62 all told- 
Clock starts again today-  and I have a trip to SC this month. 

For this week:  At Fort Sunday, Bette has Drs appts and PT Monday, so no Fort,
Blood work and Men's Lunch for me Thursday, and then Friday, I head up to Greenwood for Lander teaching for a week at least.