Florida 2020
Mom and I flew to Florida for ten days of fun in the sun in Tampa and Ft. Lauderdale in February 2020. Little did we know that Covid was circling everywhere, but luckily we were oblivious and enjoyed the beach as well as visiting Mom’s delightful cousin Barb.
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Final shots of Tampa
Update on life: Whew. Every single day, whew. I almost always end the day talking to bev and we share with each other things the other one might have missed, all the horrible stuff happening everywhere. We always end up giving a handful of heavy sighs, and then we...
Final Florida sunset…
Life update on April 2nd: many daffodils are blooming, the grass is green, buds are coming all over the place. spring is starting to spring, which is all good. but of course there's so much worry and uncertainty now that life is different. every day i furiously read...
Once more to Pass-A-Grille Beach
Real-time life update: Yesterday it got up to 71 degrees and kevin and i took a little walk through the fields which which had lots of standing water. it was great to get outside. After that i decided i needed to transplant a few tulips which had somehow come up in...
Sunset on Clearwater Beach
Life here in Springfield right now : warmer. still coughing. daffodils starting to come up, yay for that. Back in Florida, BCV: after they took away our beach chairs Mom and I found a picnic table to sit at at the end of the Clearwater Beach pier. here's a pretty...
Clearwater Beach
Life update: same as yesterday, except we had some sunshine yesterday. Still spending most of my day on the couch, coughing continues. but it's getting warmer and soon i'll be sitting around outside. But before all this...we arrived at the Clearwater Beach dock on the...
Another beach!
Life update - not as much coughing, plus the sun might actually come out today which would be fantastic. Back in Florida, before everything shut down: Sunday Feb. 23rd was warm and wonderful and i went for a good run. Here's me in front of the door to our rental...
Saturday Feb. 22nd in Florida
Statue update: it's gray and rainy today. a little sunshine would go a long way around here. I continue to cough. Status quo. Meanwhile...Saturday mornin, Feb 22nd, Kevin sent me this photo of a boat on the lake. The reason we'd chosen to go to Tampa is because mom's...
final photos from the Plant Museum
Ok, i want one of these fabulous planters. Here are more photos from the Plant Museum, which used to be the Tampa Bay Hotel a long time ago. This is the afternoon of Fri. Feb. 21st. I think that this odd-looking setttee/planter was something that the Plants claimed to...
a chilly florida friday
life update: still coughing. last night i took some of amy's codeine cough syrup after waking up and coughing for about an hour. and it totally worked! i have enough to last me 7-8 night, and hopefully the nighttime coughing will be gone? otherwise i'll have to go to...
Tampa ho!
First, my coughing report . *cough* *cough* Amy had a cough in January that lasted 10 weeks. I'm hoping I don't beat her record. But back to sunny Florida, BCV - surely somebody has coined that phrase, Before Coronavirus, haven't they? Anyway...after our afternoon at...
sunken gardens
Ok, so...things don't seem so great right now. i've had a cold with a horrible cough for over a week now. plus, of course, there's the coronavirus spreading rapidly around the world...i feel that in order to maintain a bit of cheerfulness in these trying times, i need...
thurs feb 20th – one more run by the water
We didn't have to check out of our Air B&B until noon so i was able to go for one more great run. This time i spotted just one lone Ibis strolling around somebody's yard. I saw so many of these bushes with either no leaves or just a couple of them in so many...