Visiting family

Today we visited with my sister and BIL who live in Lake Placid, (just south of Sebring) about a 3 hour drive from our place. This was a mini-family gathering with my sister's daughters both coming to visit her ; one from California and the other from Homestead, FL. I don't get to see either of these dear nieces very often so didn't want to miss this opportunity. Another of my sisters and her husband ( from here in Ocala) also went down for the gathering!

The weather has not been great for the past few days, with a lot of rain and storms!
( Sadly, tornados have caused 20 deaths across our state in the past couple days!)
We experienced a lot of rain on our trip today and gray skies, but thankfully, had a safe trip there and back.

Gloria (my older sis) had a wonderful lunch prepared for us. She has always been a good cook so I wasn't surprised to find everything so tasty! She had a baked ham, potato salad, fried okra, baked beans, cheese & mac - sliced fresh tomatoes and corn on the cob- (fresh from Homestead!)
PLUS- 2 desserts! :) - a , from scratch, coconut cake and a cherry-cheesecake! Yummy!

Above are some pics from our day-

( click any pic to enlarge )

The group is L to R- my sis-Joy, my sis- Gloria, my niece -Evie, ME - my niece, Diane

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For some reason I like the looks of water towers reaching into the sky, and get pics whenever I can! This one at Sebring I liked! :) -and I like this juice tower at a juice plant we passed in the area...You can see the gray and dreary sky we had today!

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I had fun talking with the girls. I had some pics from our trip to NC in October'06. They both read my blog and of course knew of my Icy Dip into the water wheel pond!
I told them another episode of the trip which they found funny!

... LOL-OK- Evie sorta-kinda DARED me to post that story here!
Uut-ohh! SOOO I guess I'll hafta do it!

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...K- as I said before-after my fall into the pond I didn't take time to properly shampoo and creme rinse my hair (I was in such a hurry to get the heck out of Boone!) I realized my mistake as my hair dried . I found it completely unmanageable-flying every which way!

But by the end of our riding that day I was too tired to bother with my hair again- so said,"Forget it!"

The next day brouht us to Sylva, NC...a very pretty place we had visited before. We looked around some- found a nice place for dinner-made some pictures.

We got back to the motel late...but I HAD to do my hair! I had brought along my foam curlers so started out with the job I knew had to be done!

The type hair I have, (much too long ) I have to curl it or I can't do a thing with it! If I just blow it dry it's just a fly-away mess!...Anyway- it was late and I knew it would take a long time to dry it, put up with the curlers...

Though, not the most comfortable thing to do I thought I could sleep with the foam curlers in place-and by morning it would be ready to take down! (and I would once again look beautiful! hahaha)....That is- if I only had a sleep cap to put over the curlers to keep them in place! I didn't have one, of course!

This is what I decided to do! (Luckily for me, I pack a lot of extra stuff for trips!)

Well- what would YOU have done!!

Is this a new way of, "getting one's panties in a twist?" :)









It worked!

Junie