Westminster again proved to us how good they are!
The pictures below are from The Residents Only
Christmas party
There were two on successive nights for those of
us living in houses, and held in the new Mcguire
center. There were 140 people at each night's party.
Reinforces the good fortune we had to pick this
for our retirement!
Bob Dodd

 

 

Below are a few recent pics.
first is one of Marge and Hobo
lounging the morning out !

Next are a couple fron St. Marks again,
one of our fabprite watering holes.

Then one of Marge and Mariline Davison
at the birthday party given once a month
to Westminster residents when their
birthday is during the breakfast month,
one a month.

A lively pose by Marge and Hobo

It's been a long time since I blogged. Seems like I'm busier all the time.
That.'s the life of a caregiver! It's slow, but inevitable. Marge is basically healthy,
which almost makes it worse.
Oh well, the picture is of Trixie, Deb's dog, a plaster door stop! , and Klondike,
the dog we had to get rid of when she started in to nipping Marge. If you look back in the blog, you'll see pics of Hobo, our wonderful dog.
I'll put some more stuff soon.
RHD

Marge and Deb, and I drove over to St.. Augustine for the
weekend. The ;ictures below are from the weekend. I felt
that th e Alligator Farm was the highlight.
A great weekend!!
RHD

The fort.

The trolley, the best way to see the city

A 600 year old live oak. Of course you can't see it, but it's there

The famous fountain of youth that drew Ponce de Leon to florida and
led to the founding of St. Augustine.

SPELLING!!

A view of part of the anchorage in the intracoastal.

One of the bars on the trolley route. Saturday night had already started!

The Flagler memmorial church.

One of the buildings ercted by Henry Flagler. His influence is powerful
in St Agustine. It's here he strted his railway that eventually reeached
Key West. It was washed out in a hurricane in the 1930s, and never rebuilt.

This sign is in front of the oldest houuse in St. Augstine.

The fort at St. Augustine. Unfortunately, I found the steps too steep,
and the rail too low for me to climb to the top where I wanted to
take a few shots of the harbor. Oh well, in another life!

Marge and I in front of the fort.

The lighthouse at St. Auguustine.

Look carefully, and you'll see a flock of Ibis birds in the tree top.
They flock here because the alligaotrs scare off the bird's
enemies, so they stay here even though they aren't penned.

Feeding time for the large storks

A picture of the biggest stork specie. The sac hanging
down means she is in mating season, and says "DON'T
MESS WITH ME!

Another bird!

One of the bird specimans. They have seceral species.

Climbing out of he pond, they have several HUNDRED gators.

This one is 13 feet long!

A job opening if you are interested, feeding
the Gators.

A rare white alligator, only a few hudred are left!

Up to our ass in alligators!

Marge and I at Lunch, see below
RHD

Yesterday, we went to St.Marks again, to one of our
favorite watering holes, Riverside cafe.
RHD

Looking thru my blog, and decided to put a picture of Sandy,
our wonderful Lab. She loved sailing, and when we scared up
Dolphins, she would talk to them from the stern, and I had to restrain her from jumping in!
REFLECTIONS!
RHD
PS, this picture goes back about 25 years

If you read the blog below this, You might catch the same mistake my daughter
caught. I POSTED THE WRONG PICTURE!!!
This is the boat we sailed to Florida. It was a Bounty. The first fiberglass
racing sailboat of any size, designed by Rhodes.
I would have just deleted the picture, and edited it
but I couldn't figure out how to delete the picture, and
Put this one in.
Oh well whatever!
RHD

Today, july 20, is the 40th anniversary of the moon landing.
The picture is of the boat we took from Detroit to Riviera beach,
Fl. to start our new life. This day, we were in the Erie barge canal,
about 1/2 way to it's end. Radio communication was still
dicey, and we had no up-to-date news. We were docked at a marina
in the canal, I don't, remember what town. Bobby, my son. now 53, was at a rec center. When he came back to the boat, he informed us That we had landed on the moon. What a memory!. In my lifetime, the advances are beyond
belief! Anyway, we got to Florida and started the last great
part of our life here in Florida. Of course this revolved
around Merrill Lynch, sailing, bridge, and so on.
Now we live a very quiet life, but it is very satisfying.
RHD