I'm Back

Blogspot has been coming up weird on my computer for the last while so I gave up blogging until it straightened out.  It has.



I've been happily busy in the last couple of weeks with a bus trip to Biloxi where I lost most of my money and, I think, caught this doozy of a cold I'm experiencing right now.  I usually only get one cold a year but this one is the second in 4 months.  I've stayed home since Tuesday and will cancel Friday morning coffee so I don't pass the germs on to anyone else.  It might be too late for poor Sylvia because she has a sore throat now.  I'm coughing myself silly but there does seem to be hope on the horizon because I'm feeling a little stronger right now than I have all week.



I hate being under the weather.  It interferes with all my fun activities and the socializing I take part in here in Florida.  I don't dare go out among these old folk or I might pass off germs that could kill them!



A couple of weeks ago, Jo taught us how to knit those frill scarves (easy!) so I've dropped the Swedish weaving for a while in order to make them.  I have one made so far for an Alvarez and will make 6 in total for my 3 granddaughters and my 3 daughters.  Jo said she can make one in an hour...well, let me tell you that it takes me about 2 days to make one.  They are easy, though.  I'm thinking that I enjoy making them enough to bring some yarn home to make them for my granddaughters-in-law, too.



We had fun in Biloxi...gambling, eating, and having a side trip to New Orleans.  All of this cost me $185 and I got back about $25 in free play at the casinos and $49 in food vouchers.  I would have gotten a bit more but I didn't have photo I.D. with me.  I thought my health card was in with my out-of-country health insurance papers but it wasn't.  Stupid me.



The weather is cool here these days but hasn't reached freezing at night yet.  I pity the frozen north!  So many of my friends have put their trailers up for sale and I really wonder how they'll be able to stand the frigid winters up north after spending many winters in Florida.  Age is usually the deciding factor when snowbirds sell out and stay up north.  They often can't take the long drive anymore.  I still love it but my day will come.



Anyway, life is good here and I'm still having fun...or will again once my cold is gone.