Exciting News

Kathryn and Darin are engaged! A hike to the top of Rough Ridge on the Blue Ridge Parkway turned into a proposal.

When’s the wedding? Where?  I don’t have answers for either of those question.  But let’s get the most important issue settled…what will we call it? We’ve had two gala wedding events in the past few years– the Al-La-Palooza for Lauri and Alan and Jes and Andrew’s  JesAndy Jubilee.  Okay, put your thinking caps on!

Darin and Kathryn
You may have seen this snap on Facebook, but I have more exclusive photos!
Kathryn and Darin
The Happy Couple!

Some ring snaps…

The Ring The Ring The Ring

The view
The view
rock
Here Kathryn is pointing at the rock that they got engaged on.
Happy Kathryn
Happy Kathryn

 

Just a little story….

Last week I started having cable problems. Which means I have Internet and Phone problems, too, since they are both handled by the cable company.  I could still get on the web, but it was s-l-o-w.  The phone had a dial tone but the calls didn’t actually go through. So I made all my calls on my cell phone.  Usually when I was riding in my car because cell service is pretty bad in my house and non-existent in Old Homosassa. Our TV is with DirecTV but it also needs the cable for some of the extra features. 

But I hate to call customer service–such a waste of time that I’ll never get back!  So I just put up with it. 

But everything finally completely died so I had to call.  But I couldn’t use the house phone because it was dead.  And you know I have to be outside for my cell phone to have one bar.  And then there’s the astonishing fact that the cable company isn’t listed in the yellow pages.  And I couldn’t search for it on the Internet–because I didn’t have one! 

But I persevered and the guy from India sent me a signal to make everything start up again.  Except it only worked for a couple of minutes–just long enough for me to hang up from our pleasant conversation.

So Terry and I went to the country store and I played with a cat, and looked at the chicks, and a nice young man insisted on carrying out the 25-lb bag of sunflower seeds we bought then we went to the grocery store and bought a big bottle of wine and when I came home, everything really did work. 

Yippee!

Florida Peaches

Florida has always been known for its oranges and more recently farmers are getting into blueberry farming.  Will the next big crop by peaches? 

This is a photo of peaches on Michelle’s tree that she just sent me.  She says that they are just the size of walnuts right now. 

Wee PeachesShe also sent along these peach blossom pictures from February 2013.  Lovely.

Peach blossomsPeach BlossomsPeach BlossomsWhile the peaches on Michelle’s tree aren’t ready yet, I bought these Florida peaches at a local Farmer’s Market last weekend.

Florida Peaches

Next picture should be pie.  If I would just stay home long enough to make one!