12 April 2024
It’s been a busy day. It started with my morning walk of 1.2 miles. Yes, that’s a little short but it was my shortest route today and I vary all four routes. Some variations are long and some are much shorter. It all equals out in the end.
Once I had my second breakfast, I cleaned the pool filter, patio and pool deck. Then it was spraying the weeds. I always take a good long shower after spraying. I use Spectracide and it works pretty well as long as you keep at it. At least it’s not Roundup.
From the shower, I headed to the UPS store off State Road 84. That place is usually very busy but I was the only customer when I walked in. It got busy while the person was working with me. I sent off two of the framed pieces and then walked over to Wendy’s.
I used to eat at Wendy’s when I taught on South Campus. There was one across the street from the campus. That was the last time I ate at one. I didn’t remember it fondly. Wendy’s nor the college.
It was getting close to time for my physical therapy so I drove over to the facility and parked and cranked the stereo up and let the windows down in the Jeep. It was a great way to pass time before the session.
Shannon worked me pretty hard today: legs, both upper and lower; arms; upper torso and then a lot of balance. I was tired. I made it home about an hour and half before Holley and Jim would arrive to take us to Happy Hour at Olive and Sea.
This place is great! It’s located at the Hilton and is yet separate from it. Outside dining and Happy Hour overlooks the Intracoastal Canal.
The Happy Hour menu is great. I did the Za’atar fries with a Sabra cocktail. Jim ordered an Old Fashion with the goat cheese, figs, toasted walnuts and truffle honey pizza. Holley ordered the Turkish espresso martini with mezze trio of humus, babaganoush, and olives. All were outstanding. For the second round of drinks, I had the Eastside Marina and Jim and Holley had red wine.
You might get the feeling that the weather was rather nice.
Just below us was another large vessel. They had one of those old style 1950’s wooden inboard boats aboard the top deck and two jet skis. While we were there they used their booms to offload the boat and jet skis and got the top deck ready for some kind of party. We thought about crashing but we knew we wouldn’t fit in.
The service was excellent, the food outstanding and the price unbelievable. The bill, before tip, came to $112 for the three of us with two drinks each and 3 appetizers! We highly recommend the place. We told Leia we would be back again. Happy Hour is Monday through Friday from 3-6 pm.
Tomorrow is house cleaning, change linen, wash, dry and fold clothes. I’m picking Joel and Keith up at 5 then picking up Andy and Maureen and the five of us are headed to Secret Garden for a meal. It should be fun. I’ve never met Andy nor Maureen so it’ll be nice to meet new people.
Stay tuned!