the end of an era

John arrived back in Florida this afternoon, so that we are completely at home now.  We'll see where we go from here.  Life feels both uncertain and settled at the same time.

Labor Day Weekend Photos

One last photo from the birthday party.

Burgers with the Barans ...

Frank's famous burger.

me and Sandy, looking dark

Headed over to Ocean Reef Park (Singer Island)

Good snorkeling; ocean is flat, sky is bright!

Walking around the sea turtle nests ...

heading home 

sea oats

my birthday

I think this is the last year that I will celebrate my birthday.  Anyway, here are some photos of the day, starting with a breakfast birthday party.

Homemade granola ...

 The cook!

 The friends!

 Berries on yogurt ...

 Egg/sausage casserole with smiley face melon.

 Special glass for me ...

 On a little side street in West Palm Beach ...

 John looking at shirts ...

 Two little boys who caught my eye ...

 Interesting stuff.

weekend visitors

Taking Chris to the dorm for his freshman year at FAU.  At Brios.  Gosh I wish I knew what to do with my crazy hair!

Jubilee

I'm way behind on my posting - still not finished with the KY trip and John has some fish photos he wants up - but I wanted to put up this sweet photo of Jubilee that I got yesterday morning.

Jubilee is doing pretty well with her allergies on this return to the Florida grasses.  I have a good drug (Temeril-P) that I got from the dog allergy doctor, and it seems to be doing the trick.  I upped the dosage when we got back here, and have already pulled her back to 1 pill a day.  Eventually I need to wean her off - she didn't need it at all in PA.

I even think that her eyes are better.  She doesn't fall in the pool anymore.  The vets say that she has lost 90% of her vision in both eyes, but she seems to be getting around pretty well.  We have decided against getting the cataract surgery for now.

Meanwhile, I am busy, busy, busy with all the people needing computer help!

A recounting of Jubilee's return to Florida 2 years ago is HERE.  Big difference.

heading north (again)

One last morning yoga by the pool ... one last swim ...

Jubilee and I say goodbye to our little hermitage spa and head north ...

We drop Jonathan off in St. Augustine, where he will drive Bella and Sebastian back to the hermitage/spa!

 ... and we continue north ...

Fish and water sites

Cleaning the fish that were caught on the Blue Heron (fishing boat) on Saturday morning.  Pelicans get the grubby stuff.