Welcome Baby Carl!!

We just spent a great week with our 2 year old grandson & our 2 week old granddaughter.

They are both so precious!

 

We arrived on a Sunday which is the only day of the week our grandson is allowed to play his "yellow" guitar.

 On the other days of the week this is a common occurrence . . . .

Anything can become a guitar

Our grandson talks non-stop every moment he is awake!

It was a fun week entertaining him.

We went to the park at least once a day.  Some days we went twice!

Running the bases with Grandpa

"Hmm!  Nice hole, Grandpa!"

Rockin' fun on the playground

Baby Carl

Foot picture

More park play time for the whole family!

 

 Cooking with Grandma . . . . .

 baked oatmeal

 

 chicken

Bath time!!

Budding young artist

 Pizza for lunch!

sweet kiss!

1/4 . . . 1/2 . . . 1

Taste of Country

 We walked downtown Saturday, paid the city utility bill & spent the morning at the Taste of Country festival.  We weren't sure what to expect or how long we would stay.  

It ended up being a fun way to spend a Saturday morning!

 

Look to the left!  We noticed a heavy police presence.  Not sure why there were so many uniformed officers.

 Kids Country!

Some blogger I turned out to be!  

We spent about an hour listening to the band "Moonshine" at the Electrolux (one of the sponsors) stage.  I was sure I had taken a picture of the group.  Once we got home & I downloaded the pictures I realized I had not taken any pictures of "Moonshine."  The hubby likes country music, so he was willing to sit in the sun & enjoy the music.

The quilt shop had moved downtown, so we stopped in & looked around.

They were still settling in so all the stock was not out yet.

I plan to go back in July & get one of the Row by Row Experience quilt blocks.

Check out this link:

 http://www.rowbyrowexperience.com/row-by-row-experience-participating-areas.htm

 

Just before we arrived back at the apartment we saw the neighborhood chickens.

Chickens under the car!

A couple of weeks ago we went to Louisville, KY to visit the hubby's dad's 2nd wife, Judy.

We had not seen her for a couple of years.  Since we moved to FL it is not as convenient to fit in a visit.  We are so much closer to her this summer so it worked out to visit her.

On the return trip when we stopped for gas I saw this unusual sight.

How long has it been since you have seen one of these?

 

A Nice Touch of Color

Here is our balcony at the apartment.

 The petunias add "a nice touch of color" to the space.

I even got creative with a spare flower pot & a piece of wood!!

My Summer Home

I have joined the hubby for the summer in Springfield, TN.

While driving through the area I realized how much I missed the fields of green.

I even missed the corn fields!!

We explored on foot over the weekend.

Here are some of the highlights of our morning walk.

It's hard to tell in the picture, but this is a funeral home with sample grave markers lined up in the parking lot.  Hubby & I had not seen such a thing before.

Hubby's home for a month - The Springfield Inn

Get Right OR Get Left

The Depot restaurant

local cinema w/limited showtimes

The Courthouse

Interesting painting on the side of this building.

After our walk we drove to the local farmer's market.  We were disappointed at the number of vendors - only six!  We did purchase some grass fed beef burgers from a local farm - Gourmet Pasture Beef.  We'll go back in a few weeks to see if there are more produce vendors.  It is still a little early in the growing season.

We saw this sign downtown, but didn't check out the Greenway until Sunday afternoon.  After a slight rain delay we started at Garner Street Park & enjoyed a great walk along the paved scenic trail.  We walked 3 miles to Travis Price Park & then walked back to our starting point.  Great way to spend a Sunday afternoon!!

Family Reunion in Biloxi, MS (part 3 & final part!)

Tuesday was a day of sightseeing.  

We even got my dad out of the casino!!

Beauvoir, The Jefferson Davis Home & Presidential Library

The eight of us piled into two cars & ventured down the main drag to see the Jefferson Davis home.  My brother, Alan, drove his rental car with my sister-in-law, my sister, Dennise, & myself.  My other brother, Steven, drove my dad's new car with my dad, my sister, Sherry, & my brother-in-law.  Steven led the way & we followed.  

We drove further than we thought we should, but kept going. 

We weren't exactly sure where the home was, but knew we couldn't miss it.

Apparently Steven didn't feel the same way!

We got a phone call from the other car, "Where is it??"  They had turned around thinking they had missed it.

We were yelling at them, "You can't miss it!  There is a big green sign & a mile of white picket fence.  You can't miss it!"

We finally all met up in the parking lot.  There were tours of the home every hour & half hour.  We had about 20 minutes to wait, so we wandered around the presidential library before the tour.

Beauvoir means beautiful view in French.  

The view of the Mississippi Sound was spectacular from the front porch!

 We gathered on the front porch for the tour.

Dennise, Tom, Alan, Steven, Dad, & Sherry!

For more info on Beauvoir check out the following website --> http://beauvoir.org/

If the day had been a little nicer it would have been fun to wander around the grounds.

I guess that is something to do on our the next trip!

 Wednesday afternoon Alan, Janet & I went souvenir shopping at Sharkheads.

 This place was huge!

Out of all the junk, oops, I mean treasures I found a replacement mug for the Clearwater Beach mug that I had dropped & broken.

This looks exactly the same as the Clearwater Beach mug, but it is from Biloxi beach!! 

 After breakfast at the Grand Buffet on Thursday morning we all headed our separate ways - back to Florida, Texas & Indiana.

This was a very healing time for me, as I'm sure it was for everyone else also.

It is so nice to have fun memories to replace the sad memories of the first time I was in Biloxi, MS.