Early Summer 2012

I have a lot of cell phone pictures

that I need to dump here into my blog.

Memories of fun good times.

 

I have two sons.

They married Darling Girls.

I love them and love spending time with them.

I hope that I am always a good Mother In Law.

 

 

This is Jordan.

Affectionately know as Aunt Jor Jor.

She painted every ones nails before we went to dinner.

My oldest GRAND, Shelby.

 Miss Freckles should be her name.

She looks so much like her daddy.

He has as many or more freckles.

 

My only GRAND Girls!

We really do hope to have some more one day.

I fear that these two will be grown by then.

Note the blue finger nails.

(Reagan is in Kindergarten and Shelby in 2nd grade this school year)

 



It's always fun to have your picture taken with the

alligator in front of the Caddy Shack at the World

Golf Village in St. Augustine, Florida.

 

This was the only trip I got to take with the girls last year.

A far cry from all the years before.

 

Friday Fences #8

 East End Road, San Mateo, Florida

On the way home from our New Years Weekend

 in Cocoa Beach, Florida, we wanted to stop by my

 home town and see my mama and daddy a few minutes.

Coming up Hwy 17 and before we came into Palatka

I wanted to go by the old church.

The picture above was taken just after we passed the church.

When I was 12 or 13, we met

 in this old church while the new chapel

 was being built in Palatka.

I have lots of fun memories of when we attended our meetings here.
My brother remembers we were meeting here
when he had his 8 year old baptism interview with Bishop Crabtree.

I remember the Y.W. having fashion shows
for modest clothing at the time.

One of those memories was of my Grandpa Padgett speaking.

He was a great speaker.

He would even pound the pulpit sometimes.

He got your attention, not that he really needed to,

no one ever slept through one of Grandpa's sermons.

I sure wish I could hear him preaching one of those sermons again.

Another thing about this building, it had a basement.
If you know anything about the south,
you know we don't have basements.
I do remember a time that the older youth
 met in that basement for Sunday school.
But most times it had standing water in it.

I was glad to see the old church still standing
and I had fun remembering the good old days.

By the looks of things it is no longer in use.

Joining Jan for Friday Fences.

I Won!! I Won!!

I had a phone call telling me that I had won a $250.00 Gift Certificate!!

However I did not win the Silhouette machine that I signed up for :(

But I did win a $250.00 gift certificate for LMC Truck parts!!!!

Well I was so excited that I went through the catalog and had

picked out all of y'all a Christmas present!!

I thought y'all could use a pink pair of dice to hang from

your review mirrors!!

You're welcome!!

I hoped you would love them as much as I did!

Well, imagine my disappointment when the gift certificate came in the mail

and it had both The Sweetheart's and my name on it!!

That meant that I had to share with him!

He had on his list, a head liner, carpet, a console and door covers!

What?

That meant that there was no money left for the pink dice!

I'm sorry, I'll have to find something else for your presents!

Now, I know you are wondering where and how I signed up for

$250.00 worth of truck parts!

When all of you were hitting the stores for those wonderful Black Friday Deals

I was walking off that Thanksgiving dinner in Daytona Beach, Florida!

Not at the beach but at the Daytona 500 Speedway!

At the Daytona Turkey Run!

   The annual Turkey Run is the largest car show and swap meet in the Southeast.

Turquoise is such an in color!

I guess this is what they call the swap meet part of the show.

You swap your money for their junk!

Pictures like this have me hunting for Waldo!

The smells of all the carnival food were wonderful!

Those funnel cakes and curly fries and Fried Bologna Sandwiches

just made us so hungry.

But after what I had eaten the day before I was looking for something

a little different.

We did find a wonderful Greek Salad, so good!

I also found these that would look really good on MY TRUCK,

not his truck.

And this of course caught my attention!

But I didn't have enough money to swap them for these two items.

That didn't mean I wasn't interested in them though.

It would have been nice to have had $29000.00 to swap for this gorgeous truck!

The Sweetheart did swap some of his money for an air condition
to put in the truck that he is having rebuilt!
Merry Christmas to him!!
But truth be told, he knows I won't ride in that
truck without air-conditioning!!

 My very first time at the Daytona Speedway

was a beautiful day with perfect weather, spent with my Sweetheart!

I personally think that once is enough for me,

he can take one of the boys next year!

Barn Charm #23

Hastings, Florida

 

A little more from a side angle. 

Join us in Barn Charm over at Trish's blog.

Mellow Yellow Monday

Lorikeet
at Jacksonville Zoo

Labor Day Weekend

I'm back tracking for a bit.

Our summer was so crazy that I didn't blog much.

So I will randomly be adding post that will cover our summer activities.

Just for journal-ing purposes.

We have season passes to Sea World, Orlando, Florida.

We usually go in January for Shelby's birthday.

Again in March for spring break.

Then we usually go the end of October or in November.

But we NEVER go in the summer time!!!

Just go sometime and you will understand.

BUT...

we went to Orlando for the Labor Day Weekend

and since we had season tickets, the girls put in to go.

We waited till around 5:00 pm hoping that the heat would subside.

I was hot but bearable.

Reagan was sure happy to be there!

She has been so funny lately, she throws her hands up like

this when I try and take her picture.

I show you this picture because I want you to see that cup

that Shelby is drinking from.

That's my Sea World cup that if you bring back each

time you come your drinks are only 99 cents!

And this made the 2nd year I remembered to bring back my cup.

No one else remembers to bring theirs.

Reagan and Auntie Jordan.

We were waiting for the acrobatic show to start
and they always come out and sell the flashing light jewelry.
For $5.00 each they got some way cool Dolphin necklaces.


So when the lights go out they really are cool.


Really great show.

The girls wanted their pics taken with some of the dancers.

Uncle Trav wanted his picture taken with the girls.

This is where my Mid-Week Blues picture comes in.

This is the main thing we came to see,

Shamu Rocks!!

I finally started just at dusk!

It was wild and loud with Rock n Roll music.

Interestingly enough no trainer got in the water with the whales :(

The Sweetheart really loved the music because it

was mostly 70's and 80's hits and lots of his favorite.

We really did Rock Out!!!

So much so that we got our pictures up on

the jumbo screen for every one to see.

I nearly died but the girls loved it!

After Shamu Rocks

the girls and Aunt Jordan and Aunt Emmy

rode a few of the rides.

The girls wanted their mama to have one of the flashing hats.

I'm surprised she bought one but it make them all happy.

Uncle Travis ended up carrying the girls out of the park.

We really enjoy spending time together as a family and we had a great weekend.

**I took these pictures with my point and shoot camera. I really missed not having my big camera for this trip.

Midweek~Blues

Picture taken at Sea World, Florida I LOVE this picture and can't believe that I took it :) Join the mid ~week blues by clicking on the above picture.

Florida Wood Stork

Wood storks are large water birds that stand 2-4 feet tall and weigh 7-10 pounds. They have wingspans as wide as 5 1/2 feet. They are mostly white, but have a black tail and many black feathers under their wings. They have no feathers on their head and neck, so the black skin underneath shows up. This makes wood storks the only tall water birds with black, bald heads. Since they have no muscles attached to their voice box, they are very quiet birds. Every now and then they will croak like a bullfrog, or hiss like a snake. They are the only type of stork native to North America.

Courtship

No, this is not snow in this tree.


It's the fowl of the air in that tree.

It's mating season for the Wood Stork, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, Cattle Egret, Tricolor Heron and little Blue Heron in Florida.

I was thrilled to catch this Egret doing his courtship dance.

For once I was in the right place at the right time.

First, he bows down very low and then ever so slowly, he raises his head higher and higher and stretching his neck to the utmost limit and then bowing down again as he flicks his beautiful feathers. I was thrilled at such a beautiful sight and that I caught it on camera.

The Great Egret was threatened with extinction in the United States as plume hunters in the late 1800s reduced North American populations by more than 95 percent. Egret plumes were used within the fashion industry, primarily for women’s hats, and during peak demand an ounce of egret plumes was worth more than an ounce of gold.