Walk, walk, walk

Hi Everyone -

Hope you are all doing well!

This past weekend, Glenn began the Florida Relay for Life season full steam by heading to 3 relays on Saturday.

Before he left, however, we took the dogs on a long walk starting at Safety Harbor's City Park, which mainly consists of ballfields, playgrounds and skateparks, down to Bayshore Drive.

We also saw a little alligator, just laying by the walkway. See if you can spot him...

Speaking of gators, part of our backyard has turned into a swamp. While Deuce mostly avoids it, Mojo loves playing in it, laying in it, and just generally getting as wet and muddy as possible. This is my new past-time...

Mojo loves the swamp, HATES the towel!

Overall though, the dogs, like us, seem to be adjusting to Florida rather well.

So anyway, once we got back from our walk, Glenn headed to Punta Gorda, Englewood, and Sarasota. (I read an entire book, went grocery shopping, cleaned the house, made cookies and watched Captain America.)

Here are some shots Glenn took during his journey.

Glenn got to help judge a "boxcar" competition - where people made cars out of boxes.

In Sarasota, he arrived in time for the Luminara celebration - his favorite part of relay - where they light candles in honor or memorial to someone who has fought cancer.

They also released Chinese lanterns, which they are not allowed to do. One of the lanterns blew into a tent and caught it on fire, which is precisely why they aren't allowed to have them. (It was put out without major incident).

Anyway, it was a long 12 1/2 hour day for him, but he enjoyed himself. Which is good, because there are lots more to come.

On Sunday, we went to Chad and Lisha's place in Ozona. Here's the view from their sitting room.

 

We took a ride in Chad's "Florida Gator" golf cart to go to lunch at the nearby Ohona Cafe, a Hawaiian themed place where your server gives you a hug good-bye. (Mahalo!)

Glenn is sooo jealous! At least he got to drive it.

From there, we went to a little peninsula in Tarpon Springs, where they were having an art show. It was a very pretty setting.

After walking around for a while, I was introduced to the Arepa - a gluten free South American fried corncake which is quite tasty. Then we took some selfies, which I was happy about, because we somehow never think of taking pics when we are with Chad and Lisha. That has been corrected.

We then went back and hung out on their dock for a while, which was lovely. We don't have any pics of this, but they have a couple of ospreys (Lisha has named them Baboo and Babette) who keep trying to make a nest on top of their neighbor's boat, and the neighbor keeps destroying the nest and shooing them away. Lisha is upset by this, so she and Chad put up a telephone pole, and Chad is putting a platform on top of it to try and lure the wayward birds to a safe nesting habitat. Stay tuned!

Later that evening, Glenn and I went to the Nantucket Bucket for dinner in Safety Harbor, and ate on their pretty porch.

It's a nice shady spot under some big live oaks with lots of Spanish moss.

So anyway, that's about it. Except that it was nice - because Glenn worked so much over the weekend, he decided to work from home today. I posted this pic of him on Facebook, where he got on and assured everyone that he is not naked in this picture. So you can all relax.

Working from home is not so bad. :-) 

Anyway, love and miss you all. Hope you are seeing some signs of Spring.