Sandburrs

Several folks asked what are sand burrs. I've tried to get a few photos but they are hard to show.

 They have pretty little yellow flowers as this one photo shows, but those flowers turn into hard little pea-sized burrs with lots of pointy spikes. They are hard enough to attach to the bottom of shoes (so they get tracked into the motorhome carpet), to puncture bike and golf cart tires, and to hurt the paws of our Homer.

You can see some of the burrs forming on the second photo if you double click on the photo to enlarge it. Doug has been fighting the sand burrs for 3 years. We thought of having all our sod removed and new St. Augustine grass sod put down, but that was way too expensive. So for now, Doug dug up a whole patch of the sand burrs and put down St. Augustine.

Hanging Christmas lights - November 30, 2013

Doug worked on putting up our Christmas lights while we watched the last game of the season for Penn State. He needed hazardous pay because of bumping his head into all the grapefruit on the tree ! ;-)

My poinsettias look nice (there are more of them outside the photo) but my petunias and impatiens are still little guys but they are growing!

 Even outside, my guys (Doug and Homer) still choose to watch the game from the rug instead of chairs! Although I question whether Homer is really watching the game! Ha, ha! Penn State won the game (even though they were picked to be a 24 point underdog) over Wisconsin! Yippeeee!

 Blue sky and out palm trees and grapefruit tree. The green parrots have taken to roosting in our palms and the live oak tree of our neighbor so we wake to a squawking chorus every morning.

Lunch with Garry and Barb

We went to lunch last Sunday after church with our friends Gary and Barb. The Remington Restaurant is such a pretty setting but we were disappointed by their food this year. It had always been such a good place to eat a Sunday brunch but it seems they scaled back the choices so much this year that it isn't worth the price anymore.

You can see from our photo below, it was during our spell of cold weather so we all had sweaters and jackets on.