Saturday at JB's (John & Bridgette)

Saturday, May 28 - Bridgette finally gave us a break today so we didn't have to keep up with her Warp speed and endless energy.  First thing this morning, Bridgette and I walked down to a neighborhood garage sale and we found two of her sandhill cranes just down the street from the sale.  Of course, we didn't have any cameras.  We called John, but he didn't answer, so we called Joe (who was still in bed), but he wasn't interested in bringing us a camera, so we gave up on that.  But when we got back to the house, and everyone got up and most of us had breakfast, we got ready to go to the grocery store, and we found the two sandhill cranes still in the neighborhood.  They allowed us get amazingly close to them with our cameras, but we never could get these two to fly.

 Joe, John and Tyler left just before us, to stop at McDonalds and then head into Tampa to pick up our Explorer, which they had finished fixing (painfully expensive, but necessary).  Bridgette and I stopped by the Naces to get a few things out of the RV, then went to Sam's Club and the grocery store.  On our way home, we went past a church where Bridgette sometimes sees her sand cranes, and sure enough, there were two wandering around the church grounds.  So she made a u-turn, and we got some more pictures.  We harassed these two enough (I'm sure that was illegal) to get them to take off in flight which also caused them to fuss at us loudly.  They make a very different sound when they chatter.

Back at the house, we rejoined the guys and had lunch.  John and Bridgette watched some motocross races on the computer in the afternoon, then we watched the Nationwide race.  But finally Bridgette could not sit any longer, so they got out the Wii and started bowling.  After I beat them soundly, they quit that game and switched to boxing.  Now Bridgette really got into this, and I'm not sure she'll be able to move tomorrow.  I didn't get the camera out until later, but I'll have to capture her the next time because she was quite intense.  John and Tyler got in a few punches, and I even did it a couple times.

They even wore Annie out.

John made his spaghetti casserole for dinner, and I made a batch of no-bake cookies (John's favorite).  We kicked around the idea of going to the dog races, but we never put forth the effort to leave the house, and then the boxing took over.  So we had a restful day and will be ready for a new adventure tomorrow.  It's pretty warm here, and the mornings are humid but that gets better as the day goes on.  So far we haven't had any of the afternoon rains, but June usually starts the rainy season so those rains will probably start before too long.  We've settled in very comfortably here, and they are feeding us extremely well, so who knows when we'll leave.  We just need to get our grandkids down here with us.