Monday January 1- This is how I started the new year....great way to start off 2018. I went down early and did some laundry. While waiting for that I decided to clean out the cabinets and drawers. Funny how things just seem to collect. Jeff and I decided to go for lunch and a movie. The movie was All The Money in The World. The movie was really good. While in the movie I received a text from Maren. They are getting subs for supper to get together with Don and Karen who just arrived today at the park. Jeff and I had already made plans for our dinner so we ate then went over to see everyone and catch up.
Tuesday January 2- It's our first day back to work. We were met with horrible weather. It is super windy and rain. We couldn't protect ourselves from the rain because it was coming down sideways. We got soaked and it was cool so we were wet and cold. When we took our breaks I tried to park our cart under the tree to keep it as dry as we could. That didn't help at all. When we went back out to get in it was soaked. Had to sweep out the floor because it was a puddle of water. We took off and it started missing out. Then it quit running and started beeping. We couldn't get it going. I walked down to the shop to get the other cart. Eventually we got it back but it still wasn't running right, hardly at all. We were happy to be finished working today. After work we went to Don and Karen's for a chili supper. Jeffrey and Maren were there as well. We had planned on sitting outside but the weather changed those plans. We still had a very nice evening with a great meal.
Wednesday January 3- Back to work and another horrible weather day. It poured rain again and this time we had the cart with no windshield...that is horrible. Well we were lucky the rain stopped and we thought great, we saw a little sunshine but that didn't last either. We went to clean a shower house, when we went in it was sunny. We came out and it was gray, super windy, and it was raining so fine it was almost like snow. I know the weather isn't as bad as we could be getting up north but we did come to Florida for the warm weather. When we finished we stayed inside and tried to get warmed up. Did I say with the rain came a cold front...the temperature took a huge drop.
Thursday January 4- The good news is it is not raining. The bad news is the temperature is really cold. We started off the morning in the 40's. It felt cold to me. We made it through our first work week. We are hoping it gets better from here. It can't get much worse.
Friday January 5- It's another chilly morning. The sun was shining so that was good. The weather just isn't warming up enough for outside activities. We can't complain, compared to the weather up north we should be tickled. Today I went over to a friend from church to scrapbook. When we lived in Iowa I did a lot of scrap booking. When we sold everything I got rid of a lot of stuff. Keeping only what I could fit in my travel tote. It makes it a project in itself to get everything out and on to scrapping. I didn't get a lot done over there but it got me in to scrapping mode for sure. I had made homemade noodles for supper so at least we can take advantage of the cooler weather with some winter food.
Saturday January 6- Winter is still here so we had a very lazy day. First I had to defrost the freezer, it's so frozen up that the ice maker isn't working. Not my favorite task. Then I took the rest of the day off. Since I have gotten in to my scrapping mode I got busy. I had stuff every where. We had leftovers for lunch and supper. Jeff did go in and get a movie to watch. We also waited for updates on Ashton's hockey games today. They won them both.
Sunday January 7- It started off the day with blue sky's and sunshine. We went to church and had to get there early to greet. We love to welcome others to church. On the way home the sky's had changed and it started sprinkling. It was rainy and gray the rest of the day. The bad news.....we have more rain coming our way.
Monday January 8- Another extremely lazy day. It was gray and rainy. I did get Miss Ruby a walk in between rains. I did some more scrapping. Now I have started on a book for Justin and Molly for the newest edition.....Maddyn.
Tuesday January 9- Back to work and they are calling for rain. We changed our routine around to try and get the shower houses clean before rain. We managed to get everything done with only a few sprinkles. After work I ran to Michaels to get some scrap stuff. I got poured on, on the way back. It rained on and off the rest of the night...mostly on.
Wednesday January 10-Can't even believe it...the rain held off again. That makes our job so much better. I even got to sit outside for awhile after working. It still is chilly. The dogs are even getting a little stir crazy.
Thursday January 11- The weather is improved today. We have sunshine and cool temperatures. The wind has even laid down a bit. It was our last day to work. As we started off cleaning the first shower house I spotted a tiny gecko in the mop water. I showed Jeff and he reached in and saved him. We can't believe he lived, he was in bleach water. I think the poor fellow was looking for a place to be warm.
Jeff is really tired of staying inside so we are going to The Twisted Tuna tonight. I thought I would call some friends to see if they wanted to go. They said yes. We headed that way around 3:30 to get us a table for happy hour. They have live music everyday. We had a nice evening. It was good to be outside and by the water.
Friday January 12- We are off today so we decided to take in a movie. We almost changed our plans because it seemed kind of nice. We had lunch at Panera and then a movie....Hostiles. It was pretty good. On the way home from the movie it just poured. It rained so hard that we had to wait in the truck for a while before making a run for it. Today I did call a place about Miss Ruby's teeth. She hasn't loss any of her baby teeth. She has 2 full sets of teeth on the top. She looks like a shark.
Saturday January 13- Today I gave Miss Ruby a bath. She is getting her fur back and is definitely getting fluffy. I got the blow dryer out and she really seemed to like that...on her chest. It is cool again today. It is ladies craft day at church so I went to that. I brought my quilt to work on. Miss Ruby won't let me quilt on it. She likes to steal the batting from it. On the way home I stopped at the store. Later in the day we could feel another cold front coming in.........
Sunday January 14- Again with the cold weather. We met some friends at church this morning. It was another awesome Sunday...awesome worship, and awesome message. After church we went out for breakfast at Time To Eat. Boy do they give you a lot of food. We came home and just relaxed. We are waiting for some friends to arrive. Ron and Barb Kelly who we volunteered with here our first year. They are from Iowa as well and live only 40 miles from our home town. They are camping here for a few nights. They arrived and went to eat supper. Then they stopped by to visit a bit before calling it a night. These first few weeks here have been kind of cold. I can say the 2nd week was way better than the first week. We have gotten into a routine with our work. We would just love the weather to get back to normal so we can get outside and do some activities.
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