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Time to start planning the bewitching hour!

Upcoming Halloween events:

Homosassa Civic Club Halloween for the Kids. October 24, 4 to 8 pm. Asking adults with golf carts to come to the civic club and pass out treats. There will be 24 of those crazy long handled grabbers to safely hand out treats to the kids. The Key Club kids will be helping out Jessica MacRae with crafts. Two kids per table. The Key Club kids will have on a face mask at all time. Also music and a movie.

The Florida Cracker Monkey Bar is also having a Halloween party and asking adults to come with their golf cart and treats. I don’t have any more info other than it is on October 29 and we signed up to be one of the carts.

And the Homosassa Baptist Church is having a truck and treat event on October 31. Once again, no info.

Then, because the weather is so wonderful this weekend, the civic club is having a golf cart movie night on Saturday, October 3. Starts at dusk. Bring your drinks and snacks. The movie is Foot Loose. This was originally planned in June but it RAINED that evening. Then I fell and Terry had to spend all his energy in making me better. Plus it was just too hot all summer. This weekend’s event was a complete surprise to me. I was in front of the learning center and the sign said “movie night”. What! Fun times are back. If you don’t have a golf cart, drive your car, park in the “triangle” which is across the street from the civic club, bring your chair and set up.

Okay. I fell. 12 weeks ago yesterday I had surgery. Which means I can now walk without crutches. Waiting until Monday for my DR appointment for his approval. But I was out pulling weeds today. (with my crutches) So many weeds! Yeah for cooler temps!

Planning for Christmas at the civic club already. Told Ms. Harmon, the guidance counselor at the Homosassa Elementary School that we can take on 60 needy kids. We spend $100 on each child and buy gifts from their wish list. The club really depends on the community and the members to help out with this event. Especially since we will not be having a festival this year. There will be Christmas Trees with ornaments at the Old Mill, the American Legion Post 166, and at the civic club. Each ornament will have a dollar amount on it. You pick an ornament and give it to the bartender at the Old Mill and American Legion or Rhonda at the civic club with the money. Then we will ask for volunteers to do the shopping. More volunteers for the wrapping. And again, volunteers to hand out the gifts to the grown ups in charge of these children.

We also have a Christmas party for the community kids. It will be on December 19th. Mr. and Mrs. Claus are already signed up but we are not quite sure how we will do social-distancing. Great gifts are handed out to all the kids that attend.

Planning a Christmas concert on the front porch of our future Old Homosassa Heritage Museum. Do not have a date yet but this will be amazing!

The Old Homosassa Learning Center has a few more classes coming up. Nadeene started Zumba back up on Wednesdays at 6:15 pm. Belly Dancing is starting back up on Tuesdays on November 17th. Yoga continues on Mondays and Thursdays at 9 am. After-school enrichment be begin for kids in January after the holidays.

Yikes! Stuff is happening!

DOG OF THE WEEK

Kairi 

This little girl is a rescue. She’s a Aussie Doodle and very timid. Still a puppy. I don’t know all of her back story but she was rescued from a puppy mill. She will need lots of love which she is definitely getting. Her new mama and sisters brought her to meet me at the learning center. Adorable but very scared. Hoping I can be her friend.

See you at the movie!

Kathy

Rain. Rain. Rain.

That’s what we have been experiencing this week. But thankfully Hurricane Sally is just sending us bands. Not the whole entire flooding situation that Pensacola is experiencing. It makes me sad that we pray and wish these hurricanes away but they still go on to destroy someone else’s home.

Hurricane season is over in November. Still lots of systems out there.

Okay. On to other stuff.

Once upon a time before our current pandemic situation we had lots of events to visit and I could post about them. Now. I can mostly only post about restaurants that we visit! So here we go.

Nautitimes last Friday. I had the Shrimp Burger. Terry had the breaded shrimp. Both very good.

Then the next day we went to Wild Sassa. I had the fish tacos and T had the Shrimpy Burger. Yum. Yum. Yum. The civic club put picnic tables there and we like to sit on one of them and watch the river. And that is why all of the peeps in the original “Access to the River” committee fought for five years. You can sit at the Homosassa River and have coffee in the morning or Shrimpy Burgers for lunch. It’s a PARK!

Went to get our Flu shots yesterday. Then went to “Just a Cupcake” that is now in the Hospice Thrift Shop. We wore masks. The chef did not. Nor did a lot of the volunteers. But many of the shoppers were appropriately masked. I don’t get it. But I don’t understand a whole lot of stuff right now. The sandwiches were good. $8 bucks each. Didn’t have a cupcake.

And we do have EVENTS!!!!

The amazing Jessica MacRae and the Key Club will be having a Halloween Party for our local kids on October 24th. 4 to 8 pm. It will be outdoors other than sign in. She will also be hosting a craft day in November.

In December the Homosassa Civic Club will be holding the annual Children’s Outreach and Christmas Party.

Details coming!

The Homosassa Civic Club held their September meeting outdoors at the Old Homosassa Heritage Park and Working Waterfront. In this pandemic time there was a great turnout.

The above photo shows most of the board. Terry Green, president, is in the center. Connie Wright, secretary is on the left, and Roger Cullen, vice president, is on the right. Incidentally, they are all part of the “Access to the River” committee. And the two women on that back picnic table, Kathy Beck and Barb Fletcher are also part of that group.

And. Have to say that this little sweetie is the youngest attendee to our meeting. She has been coming to our meetings since she was an infant. Such an adorable and happy two-year-old!!!!!!

DOG OF THE WEEK

I always think I will see like 10 dogs every day. Not so. Cause I can’t actually go out and meet my favorite poochie pies. This adorable long haired dachshund was at Nautitimes while we were there at lunch. (Love it when places allow pets!)

And last. But not least. Smashed my knee on July 4th. Surgery on July 9th. Finally. Able to put weight on that leg. Three more weeks on crutches. Then I’m free. Okay. Not really. Have to continue wearing the splint. But. I WILL WALK AGAIN!

We are going to Inverness on Saturday to watch grandson Jack play in a baseball tournament at Whispering Pines. Love that park.

Hope you are having a great weekend!

Kathy

As I’m writing this, there is a terrific thunderstorm whipping our little part of paradise. So far the power is on but if it goes out the cable goes too. And quite often the cable goes out even when the power is on. No cable. No internet. No wifi. Yikes!

Anyhow, I will continue writing………

Another busy week of not going anywhere or doing anything. But still busy.

Actually I had to go to the eye doctor on Monday which means lunch on the way home. Stopped at Breakfast Station by Sugarmill Woods. I haven’t been there in a few years. Too many good places closer to home but there it was and we were driving by and we were hungry. The place was pretty empty considering it was lunch time. The servers wore face masks–a good thing. We ordered two different versions of quesadillas and sodas. $25 plus tip. The sodas were $2.29 each. The quesadillas were very salty and not all that great. I could have went to Old Homosassa and had really good seafood for less than that. Don’t go past the watertower!

Like last Friday we went to Wild Sassa and had the Shrimpy Burger. Yum! (for less then that lunch at the Breakfast Station)

And we had a great view!

The Old Homosassa Heritage Park has picnic tables now! The one we sat at was a little wonky–needs some rebuilding. And bring your own rags to clean them off with. Don’t have park staff yet! (or restrooms)

The Homosassa Civic Club is having their monthly meeting at the park on Monday, September 14th. 6 pm. If the weather is good! The future museum will be open for a quick look. Nothing in there yet and it needs lots of remodeling but it’s always fun to see the before and be part of the after!

We’ve heard good things about the pizza at the Florida Cracker Monkey Bar but haven’t tried it yet. We checked on FB and it says they don’t start making pizza until 4 pm. Anyone know if that’s true? Just asking because it would be easier if you told me then having me crutch my way in.

DOG OF THE WEEK

Katie! Such a sweet dog! Love spending time with her! We were at the park last Friday evening and Katie’s parents brought her by to visit me.

Then Katie had a feeling…..thunderstorm coming right up. Time to drive that golf cart home!

Hope everyone had a great Labor Day holiday. We stayed right at home. I still can’t get on the boat but I sure do want to be out there on the water. Think I might need Terry to rig up some kind of hoist!

Have a great weekend!

Kathy