Thursday, January 9th - Rain, Clouds and Sunshine

It was 66° when I got up this morning---warmer than the high temperature we had yesterday and that made me a happy camper!

One good thing about retirement is that we now have time to prepare breakfast and eat it together. We like a variety of things and this morning it was sausage and eggs in a frame.

It was raining off and on so we spent a quiet morning around the condo.

After lunch, it remained cloudy, but the rain had mostly stopped so we ventured out to look for some more geocaches. At one place, we got caught in a rain shower between our car and the cache site. Luckily, there was a tree nearby that provided good cover and we were able to stay dry while we waited for the shower to pass.

Another cache took us to the parking lot at Caruso’s Eats and Treats, a small burger and ice cream business that has no inside seating. We met the new owners, a young married couple who recently moved from Illinois and we found out that they are geocachers, too. The husband claims to be a close relative to Enrico Caruso, but confesses that he cannot sing like this great-great grandfather. They had one flavor of sugar free ice cream, cinnamon caramel, and I had a dish of that. This was the first ice cream I have eaten since I was diagnosed with diabetes a few months ago. As many of you know, we tend to eat ice cream while “living” in Florida.

When we returned to our condo, the sun was shining like Florida sun is supposed to shine. We were not the only ones happy to see the sun—an anhinga was soaking up the rays and drying his wings. The birds on the lake were very active and we were serenaded with many different songs, most of which were new to us.

We ate our dinner while watching another beautiful sunset over the lake. As Robert Bowing put it so well: God's in His heaven; all's right with the world.