Great weather this week. Aug 26

After rain all day Friday we've had 5 beautiful days with lower temps and humidity..We've been in the mid 80's, sunny and the humidity has be really low. We like that. So far the storms have been kind to us. TS Danny is forcasted to go the same way Bill did so we should be fine the rest of this week too.
We tried another pizza place today. it was awful..you don't know till you try right. This one was in gulf shores and we should have stuck with seafood.
Lady got her rabies shot yesterday, you know the old saying it hurt me more than it hurt her. She did expect a treat afterwards and I didn't disappoint her. She lives for her treats..and it shows..
There's a flea market near here so we're checking that out tomorrow. We'll probally grill out this weekend.

Happy Birthday Danny Aug 26

Our oldest is 27 today..hard to believe. I knew he would be up early for school and then his afternoon job and football practice so I waited till this evening to talk to him. He doesn't like for me to sing happy birthday to him anymore, that's reserve for his Granny only.. But he said his birthday was ok (he's like his Dad when it comes to birthday, "just another day") but someone on the football team (he's one of the freshman coaches)found out cause before practice was over some parents showed up with cake.. I'm glad some one made a big deal over it.

This and that.. Aug 19

It's raining this morning. It's hard to tell if it's set in for the day or if it will move on out and clear off. We'd planned to go to the beach today but that looks like it will have to wait for another day.
We tried Lambert's Cafe for a late lunch/early supper yesterday and it was different experience. It's laid back fun. Servers walk around with serving containers asking you if you want more of something. This restaurant has a reputation for throwing rolls.. (their website is throwedroll.com. If you want another roll they will toss or throw it to you. They serve southern style foods (simular to craker barrel) but the portions sizes were huge.. In addition to your meat you get two sides plus "pass arounds" which are usually fried potatoes & onions, fried ocra, black eyed peas, macaroin & tomatoes, and cabbage and of course rolls (the biggest rolls I've ever seen) all of the pass arounds is as much as you want.
I brought home most of our chicken fried steak and tenderloins cause it was just so much. I can't imagine anyone ever leaving there hungry. We'd been told by several friends to try it out and they were right, Go hungry, don't go at meal time and watch for flying rolls. (They have two other locations in MO.)
Lady is at the doggie spa today. I called around yesterday and was able to get her in today. She's never happy when I leave her but she's so happy to see me return.
The tropics that looked like it was heating up last last week looks better this week. Nothing seems to be threating the gulf. TS Claudett didn't bring anything to us even though it made landfall about 75 miles east of us.

Gulf Shores AL Aug 13

We packed up on Monday morning and headed to LA (that's Lower Alabama if you didn't know) We came through this area in the spring and just loved it. Friends of ours, Jean and Tim have a place here but they aren't in town right now.
We arrived about 3pm and there was a thunderstorm passing through but by the time we got to our site it had moved on through so we were able to sit outside some.
We are staying at a different park this time and it's just wonderful. The sites are paved with patio area and the park is pretty empty right now. I've been getting in my walking and biking which I wasn't able to do in GA and I wanted to get back into a routine. I guess this is considered a non peak time here. School is back in session and the winter crowd want be here till in Oct/Nov sometime. It is summer so it's hot but no worse that GA or TN where we spent many years.
We've checked out a couple of our favorite restaurants already.. Seafood, of course. they were as good as we remembered. Reid tried to golf yesterday but it was just too hot so he only did about 8 holes before he headed back home..
We hope to stay in this area till mid Sept and we will unless any tropical storms start to head our way..

10 things I like about Warner Robins GA Aug 13

I was going to do my list of things I like about this area and I could only come up with one...Stephanie lives there.. This isn't a tourist area that's for sure. We did visit this time during peach season so I got plenty of peaches while we were here. Steph had her surgery follow up apt on Thurs Aug 6th and the dr cleared her to go back to work on Monday so with that news we decided to head farther south..We knew we were not going back north this late in the summer so we decided if we were going to be hot, and humid and muggy we might as well be that way in Gulf Shores, AL. We grilled out with Steph on Saturday night and she came back out on Sunday for our good byes. I had a wonderful three weeks with her but we don't want anymore surgery visits.

Happy Birthday Stephanie Aug 3

Today is Stephanie's 24th birthday. Yeah. It's the first one we've been together since her 19th so we had fun celebrating it. I spent yesterday baking her a cake..She of course picked out what kind she wanted. Today we took her to Longhorn Steakhouse for a late lunch/early supper. I sang Happy Birthday to her a couple of times, I tried to sing to her in the restaurant but she kept giving me the evil eye.
Reid surprised me with Braves tickets so on Saturday I took the day off from being Stephanie's "care partner" and we (Reid and I) drove to Atlanta to see the game. It was fun, hot and humid, but fun..Braves won so that made it even more fun..Steph couldn't go cause it would have been to difficult with her crutches so she wasn't invited..she got over it..
We don't have a lot of plans for the rest of the week. Steph goes to the follow up apt on Thurs and could go back to work the following week. We'll be deciding when to leave and head west once she sees the dr.
Looks like we'll be getting to Texas early this year.