Enjoying Nature, Still Cookin, Mother's Day and lots of Dr. appointments

 So for right now we are going to remain at home - and most of our friends are doing the same.  I just wish we could remain away from the public somewhere else - like at the lake in NY......But instead of heading north in just a few days as originally planned..........we must endure the hot summer right here in Florida.

So pretty much the same ol' same ol'.....Spending lots of time in the kitchen.  The past few weeks has been some of our favorite meals, including Stromboli, Baked/barbecue ribs, Mac N Cheese (with a little ketchup on mine), ham & scalloped potatoes.....oatmeal raisin cookies......

The weather hasn't been too bad lately so we've been spending a little time outside And it has been so awesome just enjoying Mother Nature..........a few storms here and there.... but lots of visitors to the back yard.  And we've been entertained by many of them.  The hummingbirds love the nectar we seem to refill about every 3 days!  We watch the Anhinga, stretching it's neck.... looking for food..and the Blue Heron caring for the new babies.

and then................we have the return of the Yellow Throated FlyCatchers who are back this year nesting in the bird house down near the water.... and tapping on our sun-room windows.  The other bird - I have not been able to find exactly what kind of bird he is..... but pretty, and has at least 3 new babies that we saw walking in the back yard...And then we have our resident black racer snakes...

A little bit more rain recently, and the yard is looking pretty good.  The elephant plant is nice and green.... the Ixora bushes are in full bloom, and beautiful, and we have three nice pineapples that are ripening nicely.  And just the other day we finished covering the boat for the summer.

 And of course - Sunday was Mother's Day.  Rich fixed eggs and toast for breakfast, and we decided to get Chinese takeout for dinner.   (We are so waiting for the day we can get back to Hibachi Grill). Dennis had ordered flowers for me, as he does most every year...... but this year they did not arrive.  He received a FTD message that they had been delivered on Saturday..... but it seems they must have been left at a different house.... Dennis contacted them.....but by Monday they still had not arrived so they refunded him.  But we had an awesome, very long conversation on Sunday...........and got be laughing soooooo hard.  He is such an awesome step-son.... Love him to the moon!!!

And a very special Happy Mother's Day to our Mom's in heaven.  We miss you so much every single day............Love You!!

We sent off a gift to Dalton, who graduates this year from the University of Iowa..............He received that, and sent us very nice thank you message.   And below is a great video of the University of Iowa band performing a Virtual fight song! Click on the link just below the picture to watch the video.

https://ktiv.com/2020/05/05/ha.wkeye-marching-band-releases-virtual-fight-song-to-boost-spirits/#.XrnsjZHD8Rt.gmail