Happy first day of Spring!!!! Here we had a delightful day of partly cloudy skies, light breezes and temperatures in the mid 70s. BUT we called our granddaughter, Abbi, in Pennsylvania to wish her a happy 18th birthday and learned it was snowing there. They've had a very mild winter and now with official spring got snow.
Abbi will be graduating in June. She was homeschooled so will not have a graduation ceremony to attend but some of her courses have been on the computer through Veritas which offers a special week each spring for their students with many activities including a formal dance. She will be attending that and actually meeting in person some of the kids who have been in her various classes. Then later in June the family will be putting on a special party for her. (Here she is with her mom and dad)
One of her achievements this year has been working on drawing skills and then putting them in an art show that was held this past weekend. It is so neat to see what she has accomplished - while we couldn't be there her parents and grandparents posted many shots of her work and the displays.
Because of some major health problems she will not be working or going to school immediately but hopes to have time to work on some of her drawing and photography using a brand new digital SLR camera she received for her birthday.
After church and talking with her, we joined ten of our friends at Ruby Tuesday for a lunch together as part of celebrating our friend, Bette Foulke's 75th birthday which is also today. Following dinner they all came to our place along with one other couple, Ron and Kathy Alesin, who were busy packing to leave tomorrow morning so couldn't fit in the dinner but did enjoy the rest of the celebration and time for one last gathering together. They all are part of the Keystone Winnies, an eastern Pennsylvania club. A good many of the members now winter down here in Florida and this bunch is either at our park or one just a couple of miles away. We've been blessed to be included in many of their activities over the years after meeting a few of them on a caravan back in 2005.
Ron and Kathy leave tomorrow and Jan Reed leaves later this week. The Beers will leave at the end of the month and the Wilsons shortly thereafter. Frank and Bette are now living full time down here but will be making a trip to Pennsylvania in late May as they too have a granddaughter graduating from high school. So this was our last chance to all be together one last time for this season. Can it really be that late already. Gosh the time is flying by
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