A Day spent in Legacy

A Day spent in Legacy 

Monday March 27, 2023

This morning I got up to walk fit and line dance. Jim was coming to pick me up at noon. I did my favorite dance Shivers, at noon. I saw the truck out there so I grabbed my stuff and ran out to the truck. I jumped in and we went back to the RV. 

Jim told me how the batteries were in, but only two, we ordered three for the golf cart so we'll pick them up tomorrow.

I took a quick shower and changed and grabbed what we needed for the day. We headed to Leesburg to go to Legacy, to spend the day with Stewart and Sallie at their beautiful home. We left about 12:30, and arrived about 1:30. 

They greeted us as we arrived.

We were ready for lunch by this time. I brought dessert for them. We came in and sat at the table inside overlooking the pool. She was still prepping food as we arrived. We sat down and had a lovely fresh bowl of fruit salad. 

Jim and I were pretty hungry by now as it was after 2:00. And then we had a salad.

 They also made chicken drumsticks in the air fryer, she made pierogies Jim's favorite,

And steamed broccoli and cauliflower. Till we finished eating the three courses it was probably 3:30 or 4:00. 

As we were finishing up her friends Tina and John stopped over. They came to visit one day and put in an offer on a house the same day. They're also from Delaware and camped with Sallie and Stewart in Pennsylvania for 40 years. She had invited us to come see their home. They've only been in three or four months I think. 

They lived in the Polo Park, where I went up to line dance up the road from TTO for 25 years first.

We thanked them and they headed home, she jokingly said she had to make her bed and clean the toilet, before we arrived.  She also told me how she was in Orlando, where we are now and line danced with us there one day. 

After we finished lunch we jumped in their truck and went over to their house. This is the view up the road

As we got into there truck.

 It is so beautiful decorated lovely. It's a great layout. 

She keeps the table set, it's just pretty 

Tina

John in the Lanai

After we left Tina and John's home we headed over to see their new fifth wheel. They bought a brand new Solitude, Grand Design. 

It was a nice layout and they really like it a lot. We hope we can camp with them in Pennsylvania this year. 

Then we headed back to the house. We put on our bathing suits and went in the pool. Sallie said it was too cold and kept yelling at Stewart to turn it up to 88. It was so nice and refreshing. We continue chatting. 

Then we got out as it was getting dark. Before we left home Jim and I discussed probably leaving around 7:00 or 7:30. As the sun was setting while we were in the pool it was obviously way later than that by now. Then she served us cheese and crackers and more fresh fruit, and chocolates. As we enjoyed a beverage by the pool, now this is the life. 

She said they wanted to buy a home that felt like they were always in a mini Resort, and we sure do here, it's just fantastic. Watching the sunset through the palm trees out back enjoying the pond, although it's pretty low right now. We continue to chat and way after our snack we realized it was about 11:00 p.m.. I said this was your idea, you wanted us to stay all day. Lol She said they're always up till midnight. So sadly we said our goodbyes and headed home, we arrived at midnight.

 What a fantastic day.

Weird Day

Weird Day

Saturday March 25, 2023

Today we just chilled since I didn't have to go anywhere this morning. Nancy texted me and said hello, we texted back and forth a little bit. Later after breakfast we got in the truck, and dropped the garbage off first. Then we parked in the parking lot at the opposite end, it was the closest to their site, we walked over to say hi, we sat with them for a little while. We had a lot to tell them about our fender bender, freezer issues, waiting for the golf cart batteries. They were wondering why we didn't have the golf cart. They had an appointment to get their haircut so we say goodbye, first we made plans to get together tomorrow for the farmers market in Clermont. 

Was a weird day but I'm not sure why. Was really really hot out today. 

Later Barbara and Lowry came over,  we sat out chasing the shade around the back of the camper. I was off the concrete, and an ant got my toe again. A little later after they left I got ready and went up to the dance tonight. Jim didn't feel like going now. Neil texted and said they had no electric over there. But we never lost power, it's not good when it's really really hot out. 

I walked up to the dance and not a lot of people there. I think it's because of the electric issue, they had half of the power in the building, but enough to keep the line dancing and karaoke going. 

This young girl had an interesting outfit.

You will ever guess what song she sang. Garth Brooks, Friends in Low Places. I helped her from my seat, I know all the lyrics.

They were doing an End of the season party, which I didn't know they were doing. They had all kinds of snacks and treats and sodas.

 I didn't eat anything, but danced a little bit, I was there from 6:00 to 8:00.

Was a weird night, missed Jim being with me and dancing. Then I walked home. When I got home ate late dinner.

Not sure why, today just felt off, can't quite put my finger on why. 

Sunday March 26, 2023

We chill this morning and had our coffee and breakfast and then we left at 10:30 for Clermont flea market. We walked around for a bit, the main thing I wanted to get done was return this weird short dress combo thing I bought. The guy was really nice and let me exchange it for a regular dress. So glad I was able to do that. Then Neil and Nancy texted and they were here too. We walked around a little bit. First they got some seafood. 

 Then went and did a few things they needed to get done. We stopped and had a special drink that was made with watermelon, we shared it was quite delicious but $6 for 32 oz. I never get to order a fun drink whenever we go out. 

We got some fresh green beans, and some more micro greens. Broccoli and some sunflower sprouts. They are delicious so crunchy.

I thought these were cool tops, would like to try and make one.

We walked over to a little sandwich shop and sat outside after they eat. We were able to chat for a while enjoying our drinks. Then we said goodbye and they headed  off.

Our view as we chatted.

Then we went to Ruby Tuesday's for a late lunch. The service was pretty good, but went up to the salad bar 4 times, before they had it filled up again. Some guy was really complaining, Jim said he was just trying to get money off his bill. 

We filled up with diesel and  quickly went into Walmart to try find stel cut oatmeal, finally found some.. Then we headed home too.

Got a call from Sallie and Stewart, as we arrived, they said are you still coming over on Monday. OH we would love to. She was making us lunch, and said to bring our bathing suits, we can swim in there pool. She said plan to stay the whole day. Wow sounds like so much fun. But after we hung up, Jim and I really forgot about the fact we talked to them last week about Monday. SO glad they called. 

Then later we ate leftover chicken and fresh green beans.  Then I made a blueberries and cherry Almond cake outside in the Ninja Woodfire Grill on Bake.

Turned out great. This will be a game changer especially when so hot outside that I don't want to put the oven on inside. Was over 90 out today.

Visiting Hours, Jim working on Chores, Dancing

Visiting Hours, Jim working on Chores, Dancing 

Thursday March 23, 2023

This morning I went up to do my workout stuff. First I brought strawberries from the produce guy. Now there's a guy here Tuesday and another one on Thursday. That's awesome. Then I did the walk fit and line danced. When we were finished at noon Allie, Mary Jo and I talked together about an hour. The funny part was we had to use their phones for translation purposes. Allie only speaks Spanish, very little  English. We talked about all kinds of stuff. We were trying to learn to say the days of the week, and counting, I'm better at counting.

Line dancing FUN

Around 1:00 p.m. Jim pick me up in the truck it was really hot out. When I got home I wanted to check the freezer out front. The temperature gage I have out there said it was 27 the last time I looked,  it had no number. I told Jim  I had to check it NOW, plus I had to get some cake out for our dinner party we were having tonight. We took everything out so I could open the door,  and things were starting to thaw out. I was freaking out a little, I took a few things out. I'll have to cook some chicken tomorrow I rearranged,  I thought I heard it running the other day. Apparently it wasn't, it had thawed out and the bottom was full of water, over an inch deep and the gage was floating in water,  that's why it had no numbers. Jim checked the plug, he had to hit the button on the GFI outlet, he thinks it got tripped when we had our fender bender.

 Wish I would have looked at the gage sooner. But when the battery starts to drain it makes weird numbers all the time,  so I never thought anything of it. I took the controller from upstairs, I like to see how hot it gets upstairs on travel days while we're in the truck. So I put that one out there and put the other one in the sun to dry out. 

After a crisis averted, I made lunch. By now it was so late and we were hungry, we were a little more than halfway finished and Tammy and Doug stopped over. I told them to come in, if you don't mind us finishing up lunch. We had a nice visit with them, they are from Canada, part of our Switch Crew. Here is there site on a visit when Jim stopped.

 They have a MDT, we like talking about trucks with him, we so enjoy their company,  They visited with us for a few hours. 

Then they left we had a short time to get ready for our dinner party, Mary Jo and Dan were coming over at 5:30. Can't believe I didn't get any pictures cuz we have so much fun with them, that I forget to take some. 

We had chicken legs they brought and we put on our new Grill she also made zucchini and onions she had. We had our appetizers inside that I made, some pork fried rice, I had grilled pineapple but I couldn't find it until it was too late. If you never tried,  put some pineapple on your grill. I also had some lasagna soup topped with ricotta cheese and Parmesan and fresh parsley. Then we went outside to cook and eat out at the picnic table. It was a lovely meal out as it started to cool off finally.

We went back inside after we ate, there's a little swampy Pond behind us and the mosquitoes get you pretty quickly at dusk. But I love to hear the frogs croaking in the pond at night.

Jim was telling Dan how he needed to order three new AGM batteries for the golf cart. I think I mentioned that before. But he was trying to figure out where to have them shipped to, didn't want to have it go to TTO. Because if they all came in separate boxes it would be $5 for each one. So Dan said to use his UPS mailbox address. He called while he was here and said we would be picking up a package for him. So that's how Jim ordered it, that was so nice of him. We have to wait till Monday though till they come in. Long time without our buggy.

 They were here till 8:00 or 9:00 or so. MaryJo washed all the dishes. We so enjoy their company.

After they left we watched a few YouTube videos and we saw that David and Sondra Kahanamoku 

had a new video up. We watched it, it was probably about 37 minutes long, but about 3/4 of the way in. There we were. She talked about the first time Voyager the truck had a play date with another camper. I paused the TV and took a couple pictures that they had at the end. We thank them back even more.

Friday March 24, 2023

We had a different video today, instead of Leslie Sansone we had Getfitwithrick. He is from Dubai, didn't talk during the video, you just follow along. I looked him up when I got home he's a professional dancer. And I found a video of when he got married he had about seven of his groomsmen surprised his bride with a dance, it was over 7 minutes long, if you like that sort of thing, it was fantastic cuz they were all professionals. Didn't think it would be much of a surprise for her,  since after all he is a professional dancer. But it was really good.

This morning I went up for walk fit and line dancing at noon, later I walked home. 

Jim and I had lunch together, we had some leftover lasagna soup. While I was away Jim worked on the second Outlet in the front of the fifth wheel. To make it easier to Boondock,  the outlet closer to the generator being in the bed of the truck, also if the pedestal on the site happens to be closer to the front than the back of the site. He also installed the new Bigfoot leveler that we just got. I went and checked on the freezer again things are okay now, I didn't lose anything.  Then I made a wonderful green smoothie, Frozen pineapple, banana, and mango water, ice and a lot of spinach. We both drink one, delicious and refreshing.

 Jim was working on some tax stuff. I had less than 2 hours to rest and get ready,  went up to the building from 2:00 to 5:00 Canadian Connection Band

 was playing here again. We had so much fun line dancing. I danced every single dance,  didn't miss a one.

I just noticed this clock. Everyone said it has been like this a long time. So funny, I usually don't look at 4 and 5 pm. I just watch it from 9 am to noon. I hate when dancing is over. So I looked at it at 4, it  said 5,  I thought it was over, still had an hour to go, yeah.

Dancing With my Cowboy 

Me Allie Barbara one of line dance teachers and walk fit and MaryJo 

 When we got home Jim had to print some tax papers which was making him insane, and very cranky. I got a text from Billy and Cindy awhile ago,  they just saw our video, so I said I'm going to call them back. We chatted for 40 minutes while Jim finished up with the printer. It was so nice talking with them,  can't wait to see them at the Huddle in Tennessee. Then we left to go pick up our pills at CVS. This is crazy but Jim zarelto before insurance 90 pills, they were $21 each. With our new insurance 90 pills, 11 cents each. This time we got our other five, three for him and two for me. I think three of them were free. So a total of five, all for  90 days, for $18. I don't have the exact number, but last time we had to order five total for 3 months Supply, was hundreds and hundreds of dollars. Insurance is such a racket.

Then we went to Panda Express for dinner. I brought half of mine  home for tomorrow. When we got home Jim was watching hockey for the rest of the evening.

Bigfoot, BBQ and Strawberries

Bigfoot, BBQ and Strawberries 

Wednesday March 22, 2023

This morning on Wednesdays is walk fit only. I did make plans to go with Barbara to Polo Park this morning for line dance over there. It's very close to Orlando. But when I got to walk fit, I told her I wasn't going to be able to today. We had to go to Lakeland.

 After I got back home showered and got ready Jim and I went to Lakeland. He had made arrangements to pick up a new Bigfoot control panel for our jacks. We met Roy the owner, we guessed he was probably over 75, what a lovely sweet little old man, who knew his stuff. Just took him a little longer to do everything. We spent almost an hour with him.

 Talking about the control panel, he said Jim was doing everything right. He also told us about his wife Rita, who had a fib and was still in the hospital. He was very concerned about her. We asked and he even told us some places to go eat that we were planning on. He helped us decide which one. 

After we left Roy we headed to Johnson's barbecue for lunch. It was one of two places that Timmy and Kathy told us about the other day. 

We had a lovely lunch, I took Tupperware along to pack leftovers. 

We definitely could have ate it all, but we stopped and saved it for tomorrow. We had a cold bag in the truck we packed everything away. 

Since we were so close to Parkesdale, in Plant City, we decided to go to the Strawberry Shortcake place we like. We never did get to go last year. We had a short cake each I took half of mine home, and I got some corn on the cob.

Look at all the Milk Shakes

Beautiful plants here

 Then we left and made a quick stop at Walmart, and CVS. Our drive home was about an hour we arrived at 5ish we had a leftover Burger for dinner. 

Then we thought we'd take a quick golf cart ride and go see where Neil and Nancy were. She texted me the other day and said they were here. When we found out our other friends are right across the street from them. Site 37 and 38. We didn't get very far when Jim said he had a full charge but, he had his foot all the way to the floor, we had no power in the golf cart. He would stop and then he would press the pedal again and it would go for about 35 ft and then kind of stop again. 

I walked home and followed him and Jim went like that and did make it back. He looked at a few things and by now it was almost dark so he said he'd check it out tomorrow morning.