Departed Winter Home: Leesburg, FL

We arrived at our winter home, Holiday Travel Resort, Leesburg, FL on November 28, 2012.  Four months flew by and we left on March 28, 2013!
Christmas 2012 followed in a month.

Holiday Travel Resort

In between we “went to work” for the three organizations we help manage and enjoy doing…..Volley Ball, Computer, and the new park band.  Very little grass grows under our feet.  Besides…FL is so dry that many yards are just sand.  Volley Ball diehards were on the courts as early at October 31.  Charles manages this season, monitors and adjust teams daily, arranges for the Fun Day, Challenge Tournament, Tournament and closing social-dinner. Volley Ball Blog

Charles started a small wind-brass group last year.  Two trumpets and his trombone entertained once.  This year a clarinet was added and they group played for a private Mardi Gras party, the Craft Fair, closing for the two night park variety show and for the softball fun day.  Check out the new blog and see how the band is growing.  Strike Up The Band at HTR   

Roxie continued her activities with the Computer TEAM of 4 men whose abilities are unquestionable.  She just keeps things organized, helps monitor the bank of 3 public computers, plans the weekly classes and helps run the Monday morning Help Sessions open to all.  She enjoyed teaching some classes. She maintains the blogs for all of these organizations.   Computer Club       We left the first week of February to drive to Brooksville, FL (Tampa) for Charles to just play with the Frustrated Maestros.  He was not ask to direct this  year but did direct upon request.  He will direct this group in 2014. All Things Frustrated Maestros

Our pet family is just fine. PeeDee, THE CAT since 2005 is still in command.  Both Daisy and Heidi had simultaneous and unrelated foot sores and visited our Leesburg vet.  Both are now fine but wore socks and Therapaw boots for a while.  Lucky Beagle had a good year wearing her constant muzzle outside.  Many times we answered that she was not a bitter but a BIG EATER!  She was not sick once from scarfing up something inedible !  Heidi and Daisy took us on Therapy Visits as arranged by our Leesburg Paws Therapy Dog  Chapter.



Our long afternoon walks always included Katie and her mom Elsa.

New York is a long way to travel to visit them.  We will continue our visits in December 2013 when we arrive in Florida.

 

We are camped at a corp park in Modoc, SC for a few days.  After a regular service visit to Gaffney, SC and Freightliner we will head to east TN to visit Marston cousins and their families late this week.   

 

After this we will land in Franklin..likely before April 10.  It has been a long time since we have stroked Lulu our resident kitty who lives comfortably in Charles’s shop with heat or AC, lights, radio and her own kitty door.  Her “dad” is in and out to feed her and check on our place.