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I have taken a year off from writing this blog I will write new post again after July. Here is my vegan breakfast from this morning. Not sure this vegan thing is going to work out but I'm giving it a try.

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     After Thanksgiving dinner, when you are so stuffed it is hard to move, but there is still pie to fit in... how do you do it? Well, that is where the annual Thanksgiving walk comes in. I saw on TV where there is a lot of walks for charity early in the morning before you eat the big meal but the best time is right after the big meal. It helps settle and burn it off. And

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    We discovered that our county is having a 3 day festival for birding and wild flowers this weekend. I must say it was quite awesome. It was the third annual festival. There were events all over Lake county but we stayed in Venetian Gardens. There was a ton of stuff to do just right there, especially if you have kids. This was a book of events that was happening almost every

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Husband has been busy around the yard. He acquired some leaves from a yard raking job he had and incorporated them into the garden which is mostly a sand pit. We are going to try planting some alf alfa, as soon as we find out where to get some seeds, because I heard that alf alfa will regenerate the soil and that is what we need. Fall garden area. He put all the weeds he pulled from

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Well, it's been a while. We have been having loads of problems here lately. Health, money the usual and I just haven't had time or inclination to sit down and write a blog post when things have been, well really, quite gloomy. But I figured people will want to know what we have been up to the past couple of months so... Here is the run down of it. Grand kids in the pools.  We have been

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We decided to go to the March Against Monsanto in Orlando, as we feel strongly about our food health. We have been told about a company Monsanto (the makers of Agent Orange, DDT, Bovine Growth hormone and GMO's) is, along with a few other large chemical corporations, is trying to take over the worlds food supply making us dependent on them for food. Or some believe to poison us so we will be

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Just enjoying a relaxing weekend. Looking into the lake at all the water lilies that are blooming. Our whistling ducks are back this year but I haven't been able to get any pictures. They seem a lot more skittish this year. Water lilies. Max, my oldest daughters dog we found out also loves the lake. He has no fear and would run right out into it if we let him. It's a small shallow lake so

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The front herb garden is usually mostly weeds with a few herbs here and there but if you didn't know what you were looking at you would think they were all weeds. The pond/fountain has been mostly frogs until Chris decided to get some fish. He wanted coy but they are so expensive and it is a very small pond so.... he is making due with gold fish. So far they are doing great. But... we

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      Wow! This year has been flying by. I can't believe it's already February. I guess it's because I have been so busy. As some of you know I work for the post office and they have been consolidating everything lately. Trying to cut waist and save money. Well, the route I have delivered for the past 8 years was one of the routes that was consolidated in our office. (

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One of the biggest traditions my family has is... the eating of black eyed peas. It goes way back. My grandfather would make them for us every year. He used to say the peas would give you luck. The rice was for riches. The greens were the color of money.  I've heard lot's of stories of how this tradition first started. One of the stories goes... that during the civil war the Yankees

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After getting so full of Thanksgiving dinner we traditionally go for a walk around the block before eating desert. This year since we were at my Aunt's house we decided to walk her property. Delicious  and juicy bird.  We had to decide if we were going to wear  jackets and shoes because for Florida it was pretty chilly. The high was only 63. You can see

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    We acquired one of those plastic fish ponds set it up and be for we knew it we had a visitor. She's pretty unusual for a toad she was yellow. Kind of pretty for a toad. You can tell she is a toad and not a frog because toads have bumps on their backs.   Yellow toad   Southern toad or bufo terrestris.  Eventually we will try and put some gold fish in

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So youngest daughter and I thought the dog was getting a little flabby and decided to take him to the park for a walk. So Youngest daughter with The Pooch. This is one of the twin lakes. Yep it has been dry for a while now.  You can tell it is the beginning of fall because of all the beauty berries.     I love the symmetry of palm trees. Only one bundle of

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I went to let the dog out this morning when I found, right off the back porch, two armadillo's. One trapped in the cage and one desperately digging underneath the trap. Chris removed the trap and expected the other to run away but it didn't so.... sadly he had to shoot it. They do carry leprosy and we don't want to take a risk. Also it was digging up my back step the step is now moved away from

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We recently got our watermelon for the fourth. It's a little early but I wanted to be sure to get it before the guy sold out. It's just not summertime until you get that first watermelon. I remember as a kid having watermelon feast. We would eat so much that we wouldn't want any more, ever. Last year we got that seedless watermelon everyone has been raving about from the grocery store. Don't

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Over the past month or two we have been watching as two Sandhill cranes have grown up. We were lucky enough to have their parents choose our pond as their home. After about a month one of the parents came up missing it was very sad. Sandhill cranes mate for life. You could tell the other didn't know what to do. But did not abandon the babies. The lone parent carried on with the two chicks

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Leesburg had bike fest , the largest 3 day festival in the country with estimated 300,000 people attending and Tavares had it's home town   planes, trains and BBQ with a free air show and a state sanctioned BBQ contest. We decided Saturday we would do both, even though bike fest lasted for three days. So we got up late and headed to Tavares. The 6th

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We went to the local Dragon Boat Festival in at Wooten Park Tavares.  We had errands to run later in the day so we were mostly interested in seeing the opening ceremonies. Particularly the  Taiko drummers. They were amazing and we videoed some of the performance. You will have to excuse the people walking in front of us. The video is long so skip to the middle when the

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It's finally Spring! Or is it? Every time we think "that's the end of winter" we get hit with another frost. But I am hear to announce it is officially finally spring and with 100% certainty because I have seen the signs.  We have babies! We have a family of baby cranes living down by our lake. They are very protective and wont let us get any where close at all. This is about the

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Husband and I went to start up the old rototiller and found it dead. So with shovels in hand, we dug what we thought was a pretty good size patch for our garden. It was about half the size of last year but we thought it would be adequate. Then I planted all the cabbage that we had started and nope. It turns out it was only large enough to be a cabbage patch. Just a cabbage patch!

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First we had Valentines Day and then the husbands birthday and ending with Presidents Day. Not sure what your suppose to do for Presidents Day but my plan it to put some of the plants in the ground for the garden. A couple of weeks a go we started seeds in peat pots and now I've got all sorts of seedlings coming up in my starter pots and I've got some really nice sized cabbages, that I bought

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This is becoming a family tradition. For the last couple of years we go to the Art festival. We have a great time walking up and down the streets looking at all the art, listening to all the music and collecting as much free stuff as we can get away with and then coming home to eat a fancy fest, with dainty little sandwiches and quaint deserts. There are around 250,000 people who attend

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So I was headed to Tampa to do training for work. I had one meeting early in the morning and one later that night. So knowing how I hate to drive in heavy traffic my wonderful husband offered to drive me. He figured he would get some fishing done and then just hang out at the hotel or what ever till my meetings were over. The meeting took place at the  Best Western Bay Harbor Hotel on Rocky

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We decided to go to the Leesburg Saturday morning market in down town Leesburg. They have the best local honey and fresh produce. Plus you never know what you might find. They have fresh baked bread from the Yalaha Bakery and goat cheese products, home made soap. Most everything is organic and local and fresh. Today when we got there we noticed they had blocked off the street. Not unusual they

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