Far Guy lost some medications...then he found them in the mailbox...it kept him busy half the afternoon. All is well...then he spent some time on the treadmill.
Last Fall I found something that has been missing for a number of years...23 years to be exact. It wasn't exactly lost...but was found.
The winter of 1998-1999 we spent the winter in Florida. We walked on the beach almost everyday we collected shells and drilled a hole in the top for a ribbon....mailed them to people for Christmas ornaments...even though we washed them and rinsed them well it was a smelly shell that was delivered. Uffda...not sure how many were used. I found ours in a rubbermaid container full of shells that was put up in the rafters of my garage...Andy got it down for me. It was a fun project going through all the wonderful shells we picked up that winter. I put them in large peanut butter jars for a garage sale someday.
Christmas 1998 at Tyndall AFB in Panama City Florida. We went out for Christmas Dinner at the Officer's Club and spent the rest of the day enjoying the sunshine! We also spent Christmas 1973 in Florida at Mac Dill AFB in Tampa....I have a few red satin ornaments packed away from our tree that year.
The cold wind howled all day yesterday, it was even blizzard like in town.
Far Side
I am always so happy when I find something I lost. Glad Far Guy found his meds.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun memory.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a teen, my brother (two years older) went to Florida, and asked me what I wanted as a souvenir. I told him one shell from the beach. He brought back a box of the most gorgeous, polished, and lacquered! shells... he BOUGHT them from a guy on the beach so I guess that counts! I still have them. I keep them in a little Coca Cola tin he bought me one year.
A good day to reminisce... cold, wind, snow. ~Andrea xoxoxo
ReplyDeleteIt's fun to find items that trigger old memories. My neighbor mentioned something the other day (we facebook messaage across the street all day) and it set us off for over an hour. Do you remember her? And where was that house? And who was her sister? And do you remember the time? We are easily amused! Today we are staying home, looking at the snow, listening to our police scanner dispatch ambulances for covid patients and trying not to flush since some pretty hardy workers are putting in a new waterline at the end of our street and have shut our water off for 8 hours. In the olden days we would have hung out at the mall, taken the grandkids to an indoor playground and gone out for lunch. Instead we have filled the bathtub, large plastic containers and every pitcher we own with water for the day. I made an extra pot of coffee last night and it is in the fridge in case of emergency.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad Far Guy found his meds. We used to collect shells on the Oregon coast every time we went. I still have a few jars of them. I would wash and dry them and they still smelled, so then I learned to soak them for an hour or so in a very week bleach solution to take out the smell. It worked!
ReplyDeleteIt was 53F here yesterday and today the high is supposed to be 12F with lows below zero for a couple of days. Crazy weather. Warm, the cold. Brrrr. Winter in Nebraska!
Blessings,
Betsy
On one particular vacation to a Florida beach, half of our vacation the beach was closed due to a rebuilding effort where they pumped in sand from offshore. After they moved on down the beach and our section opened up, I went for a walk and stubbed by toe on a shell. I pulled out the biggest and most intact shell I had ever seen before. I kicked at the area and found more beautiful specimens. We ended up spending all day there digging out about two five gallon buckets of the prettiest shells I have ever seen. I still have some of them and my daughters both have taken some to class for show and tell over the years. To this day, it ruined my ability to walk along the ocean shore and pick up drab fragments of shells like I mostly had up until that point in my life.
ReplyDeleteThe shells were a fun idea for ornaments, even if they didn't work out quite like you imagined. Our very first trip to Florida was about 1990, and our girls begged us to bring them shells. I had a very smelly plastic bag of shells in my suitcase when we got home. LOL
ReplyDeleteOne of my elementary teachers gave everyone in class a beautiful shell for Christmas. I think I still have it in the decorations box.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun find! Glad to hear Far Guy continues improving. We have one last sunny warmish Winter day to enjoy, before heading into an extended cold pattern. Bitter cold is hard on the animals. Hope your grand dogs are doing okay with the blizzard conditions!
ReplyDeleteGood thing Far Guy found his meds. I wonder how they ended up in the mailbox.
ReplyDeleteHe tried to order meds and they said they were not up for renewal and they had been shipped...so he thought they came with the shipment last week....he takes about twenty meds :(
DeleteIt's a good time to reminisce about Florida with a blizzard howling outside.
ReplyDeleteWe had the same storm on Mon. night. It was a good one...low visibility.
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ReplyDeleteHow fun to hear your old memories and stories of seashells. Stay in and stay warm!
ReplyDeletePrecious memories for a cold winter day.
ReplyDeleteHere they even called it a blizzard warning. Seemed so strange to have just the blizzard winds and it not be snowing. Blew the ground cover all around though.
ReplyDeleteGlad his pills came.
I have tiny little shells I collected from the beach in Florida when I was a kid. Nothing big enough to be an ornament, though. What a clever idea! :)
Not finding meds would send us into a panic. Glad that worked out.
ReplyDeleteI use the VA's shipment tracker and of course an app that allows me to see what is being delivered to our mailbox.
Uffdah.
I've been to FL twice and enjoyed it!
My favorite things to do is to look at shells and other oddities along the shoreline.
Stay warm!
If you need any shells to complete your jar, just let me know!
ReplyDeleteGreat memories. And I'm glad Far Guy found his meds.
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