Sarasota FL
Today, we got up very early and left the house before Kelly’s mom went into crisis mode about being late for her morning events. It’s easy to get sucked into Pat’s efforts to find lost keys, mend a skirt, find matching accessories, and so forth. Leaving the house seems to be the best way to start our day with fresh hope.
We went to Lido beach, one of many very different beaches in Sarasota. They say the sand on Lido beach is like powdered sugar, but I think it’s more like shortbread dough. At the top of the beach, where it’s pretty dry, I think about fine flour, just waiting for butter and sugar. Halfway down the beach, I start wondering what it would be like to mix up dough with my toes. By the time I get near the water, the dough is perfect and ready to form up into cookies for the oven.
We took a nice long walk along the beach and blew all the cobwebs out of our heads. We also started wishing we’d packed a bit of breakfast!
Since it was still too early to return to the house, we looked around for a bite to eat. Instead, we found a kayak outfitter who was open early. We walked up and down his aisles of kayaks, drooling over our favorites, breakfast forgotten. I found a Perception sit-on-top with bulkheads for storage and flotation. It was just the boat for Kelly to have for surfing. Of course, we couldn’t afford it, but it was fun to daydream for a while. I’ll be ready for a new, higher end kayak when we finish our trip, but we both agree we have the perfect boats for our current adventure. Inside the shop, I found a product I’d never seen before – a cooling towel. Even dry, it felt cool to the touch. Wet, it would be downright cold. The clerk told us it was for summer use. Clearly, this man never had a hot flash. Cooling towel in hand, we went on with our day.
We ended up at Borders because their café has free WiFi. We set up “dueling laptops” and went to work on various online tasks, like getting this blog up to date.
After doing quite a bit of research, and talking with friends, I joined FaceBook. I think it will be a dandy way to make short quick posts of our plans for a particular day, assuming we have Internet service. Truth is, I joined because I wanted to play FarmVille. It’s a simulation game wherein you build, plant, and manage a farm. It permits quite a bit of interaction with other players and is scary addictive.
Today, we got up very early and left the house before Kelly’s mom went into crisis mode about being late for her morning events. It’s easy to get sucked into Pat’s efforts to find lost keys, mend a skirt, find matching accessories, and so forth. Leaving the house seems to be the best way to start our day with fresh hope.
We went to Lido beach, one of many very different beaches in Sarasota. They say the sand on Lido beach is like powdered sugar, but I think it’s more like shortbread dough. At the top of the beach, where it’s pretty dry, I think about fine flour, just waiting for butter and sugar. Halfway down the beach, I start wondering what it would be like to mix up dough with my toes. By the time I get near the water, the dough is perfect and ready to form up into cookies for the oven.
We took a nice long walk along the beach and blew all the cobwebs out of our heads. We also started wishing we’d packed a bit of breakfast!
Since it was still too early to return to the house, we looked around for a bite to eat. Instead, we found a kayak outfitter who was open early. We walked up and down his aisles of kayaks, drooling over our favorites, breakfast forgotten. I found a Perception sit-on-top with bulkheads for storage and flotation. It was just the boat for Kelly to have for surfing. Of course, we couldn’t afford it, but it was fun to daydream for a while. I’ll be ready for a new, higher end kayak when we finish our trip, but we both agree we have the perfect boats for our current adventure. Inside the shop, I found a product I’d never seen before – a cooling towel. Even dry, it felt cool to the touch. Wet, it would be downright cold. The clerk told us it was for summer use. Clearly, this man never had a hot flash. Cooling towel in hand, we went on with our day.
We ended up at Borders because their café has free WiFi. We set up “dueling laptops” and went to work on various online tasks, like getting this blog up to date.
After doing quite a bit of research, and talking with friends, I joined FaceBook. I think it will be a dandy way to make short quick posts of our plans for a particular day, assuming we have Internet service. Truth is, I joined because I wanted to play FarmVille. It’s a simulation game wherein you build, plant, and manage a farm. It permits quite a bit of interaction with other players and is scary addictive.
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