Good morning, all.
@Draconigena I love your orchard. Also love the sound of your road trips.
@Jimi sorry to hear that you had a scare from too much heat. Sounds wretched.
@The Cromwell if you get those trees to behave, please do share how you did it. I have about 15 acres here that need a talkin' to.
@JuicyLucy I hope your house transaction works out before it drives you and Mr. Juicy bonkers. Hope you don't have a run-in with the lava.
@choderfett hope you make money on your investment. What a fun thing to invest in! I like silver, myself. Collected a ton of sterling pieces 'way back when and now I don't know where they are - in the bottom of a closet somewhere, I do believe.
Re vacations, hubbs and I have been to northeastern Florida (in the Old Pharts section) a couple of times, once on Amtrak back in 2014 and once on a road trip this past March. Y'all want a great old-people vacation, look at Crystal River, FL and the Kings Bay Lodge. It's like going on vacay in 1965. Go on a river tour and look at manatees - get in the water and swim with 'em, even. Take an airboat ride. It's so much fun. Weeki Wachee State Park still has mermaids, and Silver Springs State Park still has glass-bottom boats. All stuff we did when I was a kid.
We also took the train to Charleston and drove down to Beaufort and Savannah in 2015. Took the train to Huntington, WV in the fall of 2016. I go to the Virginia coast most every fall with a friend that I've known since high school. We go to Williamsburg, Norfolk, Va Beach, the movies, K&W Cafeteria, Captain Groovy's (for seafood), the Ben & Jerry's store, Pocahontas Restaurant for decadent breakfast - we've done it enough times now that we have a routine. It's a lot of fun. Get a hotel room on the ocean, sit on the balcony a few floors up and drink coffee early in the morning. Read and bum around for three or four days, ride ferries across various rivers, etc. I've had that on my mind the past few days because it's time to get rooms for this fall, and I SO need the time away. Don't have any money, but hopefully I will by late September.
Son's car crash back in March has taken the wind out of my finances. Hubbs and I have been paying all of his bills. He just got released to go back to work week before last, and is working to get approved for unemployment to tide all of us over until he finds a job. His old employer was not willing to hold his job for him long enough for him to recuperate.
