Adventure Logan

I cannot believe that we are at the midway point in the month already. Where has the time gone? We enjoyed having Florence and Garth here for a month – Florence kept Marilyn and me on track with the nightly trike ride. Since she left we have let that slide, so we need to get back on that soon. After their departure I spent several days packing away Christmas. It took 10 bins to accomplish that – my OCD self-made new labels for all of them. We continue to have Sunday brunch out with the Munroes and dinner out with the gang (who ever is available) once a week. This week we went to Red Lobster and I enjoyed the shrimp.

We did not win the POWERBALL but did try.

The fever was great and the lines for purchasing were long. Here is a pic of the losing ticket!!!

I seem to be on a crafting kick this week. The glue gun was calling to me in a big way. Along with the glue gun, was the urge to redo some of my shell arrangements. So I emptied shell jars and redid some shells, painted and redid a wreath and a welcome sign and started a spring wreath for home.

This square wreath has been used for a couple of years – has been shown here before

when birds began a nest in it – so it needed a remake to take it from this………

To this…….

I bought a brown wood plaque with the letters WELCOME carved out.

So I painted it green and filled the carved out letters with shells.

Close up of the letter W with shells and pearls.

Last night we had another rain event with the accompanying tornado watch. When I went to bed at 3AM,  it was raining and blowing quite hard. During the night it resulted in several tornadoes which killed 2 near Arcadia(mobile home) and damaged condos about 30 kms north near Siesta Key. The reports today of the EF2 tornadoes are frightening and the pictures certainly show the severe danger. Since the el Nino season is mostly to blame, we will dig out the storm radio that we own and use it when the storms are raging through this county. In true Florida fashion, we woke to sunny skies and wind. Dave and I took a drive to the North Jetty where the waves were awesome. We couldn’t park there as they were plowing the sand and debris that had gathered there. I took this pic from the window of the car.

We then headed for Venice Beach and walked out to see the surf.

The beach was closed for swimming and the water was rough.

These birds were huddled close to the sea grass and away from the water.

We then headed for the South Jetty which is in Nokomis. The water by the jetty was a huge whirlpool.

Sand was blown from the beach to the rocks on the jetty and it looked like ice and snow.

The surf pounded and sprayed in all directions.

So I thought we were off to a slow start this year but it seems that the meteorologists think that we will have repeat performances of this all winter. We will have to tighten up the “take cover” plan as the tornado that hit the trailer lifted it off its blocks and threw it across the street.