Friday, April 10, 2009

Solar City largest of it's kind coming here!

Babcock Ranch within the next three years will be building a unique city of 49K population right here on the outskirts of River City meaning Punta Gorda, actually overlapping in the two counties of Charlotte and Lee.
Kitson and Partners along with FPL, Florida Power and Light have billed this as the World’s Biggest and the World’s First to build on 400 acres a $300 million photovoltaic solar plant on the developable portion of the 91,000-acre ranch and that they are planning to totally power their city by this 21st Century all green system, which is how the city will be.

This just in: my husband just photographed a Manatee down by our dock!
We have had others before, entire families, but it is always a joy to see the gentle sea-cows.

We went out on our journey this morning with a purpose to turn our Marley-like Skipper, hopefully turned him into a social animal. At first the idea of going to a dog friendly park was in my opinion a good beginning for our lovable but quirky canine Skipper.
Alas the idea was a flop in the reasoning that the park in spite of the holiday of Good Friday was fairly empty. Only about a half a dozen dignified dogs remained while we rode and walked throughout the lovely waterfront commons that edged a condo as well as shops being built. The veterans memorial is there too and a band shell/gazebo as well. With all that going on it was surprisingly quiet and we only spent about an hour there. But next we moved on to our Fisherman’s Village, which is also doggy friendly and lunch is even served el fresco so all dogs are welcomed there too.
We walked/rode all through the complex which is outside but enclosed by a roof like system, shady and comfortable on most days. I was upset to realize that my scooter was not made for those small shops so all I could do was window shop, but I wasn’t there to buy anything anyway.
My husband and Skipper did go into the one store that welcomes all canines and felines it’s called Salty Paws. I suggested that my husband ask Skipper if he wanted or needed anything, but Skipper said nothing so he didn’t.
Oh, I forgot to mention that the place was fairly busy compared to the park, which was good for training purposes and proved to be just right in that respect, and Skipper did surprisingly well. Even when we stopped there for our lunches he was a perfect gentleman, and we were told this by the table next to us how well behaved he was!
After all, our Skipper turned five last month, and it is definitely about time.

It was a lovely few hours, just right, not too long or too short and the weather also behaved well, it was in the lower 80’s with low humidity.

On that positive note I wish you all a good night and to all count those blessings and I will too!

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