Danny's Visit

We have been working hard on the house. Our decorator from North Carolina was down to visit us for a few days. He has such a great eye for design but he had to resort to choking Jeff once in a while.

We spent one whole day picking tile and flooring . There sure is a lot of new stuff on the market. There will be some bling around the house and pebbles are suppose to feel good on the feet. I can't wait until all the different things come together.

Danny could hardly control himself when he got Jeff to agree put a fan in the exercise room.

Stay away Gustav

Last week it was Fay -- this week it's Gustav. We only got about an inch of rain with Fay and not any high winds. The whole town was in a tizzy worried about the 8 to 10 inches of rain we were going to get and the high winds were going to keep people from getting out of town. If the winds get to 50 mph they shut the bridges until they can check them out which usually takes 2 days. In order for us to leave we have to cross a bridge at some point. A builder working on our new house told Jeff that we wouldn't have any problems with the house -- it is built solid. I don't think we'll stick around to find out. We have been through hurricane Hugo when we lived in Charlotte. Charlotte is several hours off the coast and we saw houses flattened in our neighborhood. We'll be watching the weather channel real close.

Poor Jeff!! On Sunday morning Jeff was going to do a little yard work in Florida. When he went out the garage door he met up with a not so friendly snake. The thing coiled up and hissed. Didn't take Jeff long to run for cover. He said it was about 2 feet long and fat. He did a little research and came to the conclusion it was a cottonmouth snake. Can't have any of them hanging around so got his trusty BB gun. He got the snake with the first shot and put him in a bucket. After he called me to tell me about his adventure he went back out to find his snake had been moving around in the bucket. I know Jeff won't be doing any yard work in the near future.

That's about how my week went. I was the one doing the whining. A few people were pushing the wrong buttons.

YUM

Tried a new restaurant tonight. Commander's Palace has just come to Destin. They are a famous restaurant from New Orleans. The food was great and the price wasn't too bad. They're located in the Emerald Grande -- right where the flag is in the picture. The Emerald Grande is a condo and retail development right on Destin Harbor. Pat O'Briens (also from New Orleans) is the building on the far left and Harry T's is just in front of Commander's Palace. When all the building done, it will be a busy place with lots of entertainment and restaurants. Something else for us to do.

Headed North

Last week Jeff and I had Budder while Brooke vacationed in Destin. He is spoiled and we did all we could to spoil him more except he did not sleep in our bed. I do have my limits.



I'm headed north tomorrow. Brooke and I have another KCD camp next week. Should be fun. It's a good way for me to get rid of some of my crafts that someday I'll get to. hahaha



I can't believe we are headed into August. Where did the time go? It has been so hot down here. The sun seems more intense. It's hard to go from the car to BEALLS but ya just have to do it. Bealls has such good sales -- it's like they pay you to take their stuff. I haven't been shopping (treasure hunting) much because we have been working on picking out stuff for the house. Yesterday we rode thru neighborhoods looking at front doors and picked one from a book. Go figure -- should have saved the gas. Had to cancel a piece of furniture I picked out for the morning room that is upstairs because we couldn't get it up the stairs or in the elevator. Only way to get it in the house would be a crane thru a window -- NOW. I just hope the cabinet person can build it for me. It looked like an amoire but it had a little kitchen inside.

Looks like the sun is trying to peek out again so that means I'm headed to the pool.

Today we took the KCD teachers out on a boat in the ocean. Capt. Jeff did a fine job finding the dolphins. There were 8 - 10 dolphins -- mamas thru babies. Got some great pictures. The dolphins played around our boat for about 40 minutes. They were so close we could have touched them. Brooke directed us to Crab Island. The water is very shallow so people get out of there boats to play.