Feb 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
after returning from our walk down to the beach with our giant piece of delicious orange crunch cake, we…went back to the beach! to see the sun set, of course. i don’t often to get the sun rise and set in one day. looking through the photos, i realize...
Feb 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
we saw the sun rise, we watched manatees, we sat on the beach, went to the bubble room fabulous fun restaurant…and then we went back to the bubble room to get a giant delicious piece of orange crunch cake. we walked all the way up to the north side of the...
Feb 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
so…we’d seen the sun rise, we’d watched the manatees, we’d walked on the beach and picked up many shells…and then it was off to the beach for some serious sitting on the beach time! have i mentioned that i love the waves? kevin took some...
Feb 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
This was Monday, January 5th – one whole full glorious day on captiva island, sunup to sundown. which meant we had to get up early to see the sunrise. not THAT early, because the sun was scheduled to rise at, hmm, something like 7:16. i got up right before 7,...
Feb 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
part 2 of sunday, january 4th – as i wrote yesterday, we got to check in to our hotel an hour early. we drove over to jensen’s marina to check in – the jensen brothers have two properties, the marina with their twin palm cottages, and...
Feb 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
this was sunday, January 4th, and i, personally, was very VERY excited because we were going to captiva island to stay at his wonderful place! a hotel, but our own little cottage! it was a busy day, and we took such a ridiculous amount of photos that i must divide...
Jan 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
we had booked a hotel on captiva island for sunday and monday nights, so on saturday morning we decided to get ready for that little trip. well, for some reason kevin decided that the best use of his time would be to thoroughly, and i mean THOROUGHLY, clean the...
Jan 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
i posted a picture of a calabash tree when i wrote a few days ago about going to the edison & ford estates. i thought i’d take a moment to look up the calabash, because i knew nothing about it. well, wikipedia had lots and lots and LOTS of information about...
Jan 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
and on our 3rd day in florida, we hit the beach! but first, we sat around in the morning, outside, enjoying the weather. kevin took a picture of this tree, the big one in the background, because it was so huge and had a nice shape and i’d like to have a big tree...
Jan 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
it was a sunny, beautiful new year’s day, a perfect day to tour Thomas Edison and Henry Ford’s estates. but first, we hung out a little bit at our campsite. we took a drive down the long road to the heart of Ft. Myers – it was funny, because as we...
Jan 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
and we took it easy. well, first we spent a good three hours driving around, trying to find some kind of connector for the camping fridge. the connector had broken and kevin thought it would be “easy” to find a replacement. i believe his words were...
Jan 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
i realize as i type that many of my posts now have a !!! at the end. it’s funny, because when amy and i text each other, we almost always end our sentences with !!!, but have talked about how we do this with many or most texts, but don’t usually feel the...
Jan 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
and things are good. here are the final, final photos from 2014. let’s be done with it already! just a few xmas photos – i’ve noticed that many, many people still have their xmas decorations up still. get over it, people! here’s a happy xmas...
Jan 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
whew. HAPPY BELATED NEW YEAR’S DAY! yeah, i know, waaaaay late, not an auspicious beginning to this shiny new year. the thing is, i spent new year’s eve in our popup camper, in fort myers, florida… a deliciously warm way to usher in the new year,...
