I suppose I owe my readers a picture of me jumping in the pool with my clothes on. After-all, I did say I would if I failed to post once a week. I am astonished my last post was way back in June. I will post the picture as soon as I find someone to take it for me.
It has been a hot summer here in Florida, fortunately, not as hot as other places. Did you see on ABC news the steak they cooked on the dash of a car? And we used to think it was hot when you could fry an egg on the sidewalk. I just read on Facebook, that a friend of mine had her toenail polish melt on the sand at the beach! Now that's hot!!
My grape crop is ripening early this year. I already have two batches of wine started. I'm excited this year, my white grape vine(it has a proper name, but there is no way I would spell it correctly and I'm sure it's not in spell check) is producing enough grapes to make wine with. I sampled it this morning and it tasted goooooood. I go out early every other morning and pick for a couple of hours, then jump in the pool to cool off. Gabriel, our Flat-Coated retriever swims with me. He's so cute, when he first started he only used his front paws, so when his fur got heavy with water, he sank. He can now do two lengths of the pool like a champ. I'll post a video of us swimming together at the end of this post.
My daughter is getting ready to return to her studies in North Carolina. We will be joining her in September for her twenty-first birthday. I now have to come up with $500 to give her. There's a tradition in my family, my grandmother did it for my mom and uncle, Mom did it for my brother's and I and now I must do it for my child. The deal is, if you can make it to 21 without smoking, you will get $500 on our birthday. The reasoning, if you can go twenty-one years with smoking, chances are you will never start. So far it has worked. No one from that side of my family tree smokes. Well, I'm going to sign-off now. Think of me while I'm out picking grapes, sweat rushing down every crevice of my body, then in a year, think of me sipping on a cold glass of home brew.
It has been a hot summer here in Florida, fortunately, not as hot as other places. Did you see on ABC news the steak they cooked on the dash of a car? And we used to think it was hot when you could fry an egg on the sidewalk. I just read on Facebook, that a friend of mine had her toenail polish melt on the sand at the beach! Now that's hot!!
My grape crop is ripening early this year. I already have two batches of wine started. I'm excited this year, my white grape vine(it has a proper name, but there is no way I would spell it correctly and I'm sure it's not in spell check) is producing enough grapes to make wine with. I sampled it this morning and it tasted goooooood. I go out early every other morning and pick for a couple of hours, then jump in the pool to cool off. Gabriel, our Flat-Coated retriever swims with me. He's so cute, when he first started he only used his front paws, so when his fur got heavy with water, he sank. He can now do two lengths of the pool like a champ. I'll post a video of us swimming together at the end of this post.
My daughter is getting ready to return to her studies in North Carolina. We will be joining her in September for her twenty-first birthday. I now have to come up with $500 to give her. There's a tradition in my family, my grandmother did it for my mom and uncle, Mom did it for my brother's and I and now I must do it for my child. The deal is, if you can make it to 21 without smoking, you will get $500 on our birthday. The reasoning, if you can go twenty-one years with smoking, chances are you will never start. So far it has worked. No one from that side of my family tree smokes. Well, I'm going to sign-off now. Think of me while I'm out picking grapes, sweat rushing down every crevice of my body, then in a year, think of me sipping on a cold glass of home brew.
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