Thursday, June 10, 2010

Went to that appointment today...

And the results from that mysterious appointment is on hold until I know by mail what’s going to happen, and that is all I am going to say about that for now!

Any-who, that ‘appointment’, was in Ft. Myers, over forty miles south of here and we took the highway down to get there with time to spare.
And since we rarely stray too far from our five miles radius in our own backyard we took advantage of the scenic route home and made a stop at a famous place called the Shell Factory where there are as you might guess….seashells of every mollusk of any seas in any hemisphere!
It’s like a museum but is not; everything is for sale from pennies on the dollar to thousands of bucks!

I’m sure you can tell that the place is a tourist attraction with an outdoor wildlife sanctuary which we still have not gone in since they charge ten dollars a head and it was already in the nineties by the time we got there around eleven A.M., the factory itself is air-conditioned and free unless you buy something or your children play in their game- room.
Also on the compound is a miniature golf course and lake with paddle boats for hire!

Today we actually did make a small purchase, you see, they have fresh water pearl jewelry and you can even chose the oyster with your pearl in it, but I chose a pair of fresh water pearl earrings already put together instead for just five bucks, would you believe?
I have had a pearl necklace for years that was a gift from a cousin for my sweet sixteen and four and half years later I wore it to our wedding, Hubby’s and mine that is, not my cousin’s, am I confusing you? Hope not!

They also have a seafood restaurant there, well actually across the parking lot, and its called, Captain Fishbones Seafood Grill, how quaint and obvious I hear you all saying….we had never ever eaten there because we foolishly thought they were too expensive, well they weren’t, at least not that much different than most and the service as well as the food was excellent!
Hubby had a Grouper sandwich plate, and I had a house salad topped with four enormous grilled shrimp and we both had a cup of their homemade New England clam chowder that was incredible! Iced tea unsweet with lemon for me and Hubby had coffee our usual beverages of choice, mmmmmm good!
All was done and back at home by, would you believe, one P.M.?

That’s what happens to early birds… days start early and end that way too, at least when you’re getting on in age... I can only speak for myself actually.
But when you get up at five A.M., I know some of you are saying, what are you crazy?
That’s rhetorical, right? LOL

And so tonight we both decided with such mucho gusto lunches that dinner should be simple and we made French onion soup and toasted multigrain garlic cheese bread, perfection and oh so simple.
Soup is not just for cold days you know there is a theory that drinking hot makes your exterior feel cooler? Yes, its just a theory and it came from Hubby’s grandma, and whose going to argue with a very old very dead woman; not when she said it but now…come on folks if she were still alive she would be like a hundred and forty or something, she lived until ninety plus!

On that totally useful note of ghastly information I will bid you all a very good night and to all count those blessings and we will too!

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