Out and About – Page 6

Alpaca Magic USA

June 20, 2016 by KTgreen

I’m addressing this post to our locals that don’t go back off to their Summer homes in the north.

Cause I’m here to help!

Are you getting company this summer?

Most likely you’ll get somebody stopping by for a few days. Since Citrus County is like 99.9% over the age of 60 and we have a lot of kids, grandkids and great-grandkids wanting to visit us. And friends. Yeah, we have a lot of people that live outside of the sunshine state. And they seem to want to visit in Summer. When it’s 99 degrees with 99% humidity. Cause they have the time off and school is out.

Disney and Sea World and Busch Gardens and Universal are GREAT! But they are all about 1 1/2 hours away and WAY expensive. Your guests will want to spend a few days there. And then they are going to come back and want to be entertained.

So let’s look around us and find some inexpensive local fun.

Like Alpaca Magic USA.

Open EVERY DAY from 10 – 2.

And they have so much more than Alpacas.

Although I have to say that Alpacas would be enough for me.

This is Maverick. Adorable. A walking stuffed animal. What child (or adult) could resist?

Besides those adorable Alpacas, there are cats….

Chickens….

A butterfly house….

And so many beautiful and healthy plants.

Succulents are growing — I bought most of these succulents at the open house they held. Happy plants!

While Piper and I were there I picked up a vine to embrace the fence and some parsley for the swallowtail butterflies. The vine is already twining around and making itself at home, waiting for the swallowtails to find the parsley.

We went into the Alpaca store and watched a demo of turning alpaca fur into yarn.

Alpaca Magic USA — This is just a SMALL part of the shop. Lots of other Alpaca items in the other rooms.

Piper wanted to see the Alpacas one last time.

Alpaca Magic USA is a unique place and the owners are so friendly and eager to show you the farm and shop. Piper loved it.

I have more places to show you. Not always free but not Disney-esqe pricing. I’ve had lots of company over the years and we’ve done our best to find fun and unique places to show our guests.

I’ll have another spot to share with you next week!

And we had another meeting…..

May 12, 2016May 12, 2016 by KTgreen

Yeah. That’s what we do.

And we love it! Because we think we are making a difference for our little community.

This time, Terry volunteered to be on the board for the Old Homosassa Veterans Memorial.

Which is such a great group. There is one memorial for the purple heart veterans in Citrus County. And another memorial for veterans. For $100 and if you are an American veteran living in Citrus County, you can have your marker there. The money for those markers helps pay for the free markers for the purple heart veterans.

Plus they sell flags for $20 at a lot of local venues and make a bit of money from that which goes towards the memorial.

Pretty Cool.

I’m not part of the group but I went along with Terry.

Cause I didn’t have another meeting.

And the meeting was at Margarita Breeze.

The headquarters of American Patriotism and great food.

I figured I could somehow squeeze dinner into that meeting.

Just in case you don’t already know, Margarita Breeze is the reincarnation of Margarita Grill. Just not on the Homosassa River. It’s on Kings Bay. Way north of the old location.

So.

Of course I ordered the Grouper Reuben because I’m on a personal quest for the BEST Grouper Reuben.

And, there was coleslaw on it.

Really?

A Reuben should have sauerkraut.

But the Reuben was great. Even without sauerkraut. But it could have been better. With sauerkraut.

Terry had fish and chips.

Look at this view!

If you stop by Margarita Grill, you can get an American flag for $20. There’s other patriotic stuff, too. The money goes towards the memorial.

Do it!

Springtime in DC

April 27, 2016 by KTgreen

One more post of photos from DC.

We missed the peak of Cherry Blossom season by about 2 weeks on our visit, but there were so many amazing flowering trees. This post started out to just be some of the snaps of the trees but I had so many other good photos, I’ve gone beyond flowers.