STEVEN FOSTER FOLK MUSEUM STATE PARK

 back in florida and we are seeing things we hadn't know about...lar was looking at the map and he saw where there was this park and was not very far from where we were for an overnight..so we thought why not stay an extra day and go see it...we did not realize that we could have stayed at the state park till after we had registered here but it only cost us 18 a night...also it as easy on and will be easy off...

so this morning off we went  and found it most interesting...did you know that steven foster was raised in pittsburgh  but they built his museum here on the you guessed it  on the "swanee river"..wonder why...he was an accountant and did song writing on the side till his song

s became popular so he quit that job and turned to song writing full time...there is also a bell tower that rings on the 1/4/hr--1/2 hr --3/4 hr-- and of course it plays several of his songs on the hour

there alot of songs he has writen that i have no idea what they are and i don't think i ever heard them...of course one you hear every year if you watch the kentucky derby and sip mint juilps hahaha..

also we got a bonus the azelas are in full bloom and beautiful...

birds woke us up this morning..

and we are back on eastern time..darn we like centrral time...oh well..

life is still great

BACK IN FLORIDA

we left gulfport , mississippi this morning around 7 cause we needed to be in theoidore by 9 to have to new tv put in...got there in time and it took only about an hr...now we have to learn how to run a new one....

drove thru alabama and now we are back in florida...i thought we would stay at the same campground we stayed in when coming west on I-10 but i got mixed up in the book...so we are at a different one but that is ok...it is a passport campground with trees and we need trees today it is only 83 in the shade...
life is good
tomorrow we will pick up another delivery of mail and hope that ALL our tax info is in it...it sure has been spotty coming this year...

SUNDAY ON THE COAST

 today of course is sunday so we wanted to go to church but couldn't find one that fit our time frame and to find the right one so insteasd lar wanted a krispy kreme donut...that we did but also cause we didn't go to church we did a play it forward...hope they all felt good cause we did..

then it was a ride along the gulf  coast where as you all know katrina did her damage ;several years ago we wanted to just see how much has been done since...almost a different place...lots of empty lots with for sale signs on them...we also saw the carved figures in the median along rt 90 where a man carved them from broken down trees after katrina hit...

after that a wee bit of shopping..

tomorrow on the move heading to theodore ,al to b=get the new tv put in then on to florida to pick up our mail at our forwarding service..after that we are not sure where we will land...there are several natio

nal parks on the coast we have not bee to and are looking at that..


and the biggest news of the day is that  the sun was out and we got to walk along the beach..

amen

life is still going great..

GULFPORT, MS

 we are now in gulfport mississippi till monday morning when we will head to theodore, al to get the new tv replaced...

friday for lunch we went to the 'blow fly inn" which was on d-d-d on the food channel if you watch it...i had some very delicious catfish and lar had a crab cake was very disappointed in it  as it was small and only 1...but the sweet potatoes were  very good..when we got back to the rig he had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich...

when we stopped at the mississippi welcome station on friday there was the "john stennis space  center/museum 3 miles away ...so we filed it to do today...

so this morning we went out to breakfast then the museum..spent the whole day there and found it most interesting...especially when we saw stuff from the discovery shuttle which we watch launch in florida several years ago..

also a bus tour of part of the 22 square miles of the center where they do all kinds of testing of rockets...

not sure what we might do tomorrow but i'm sure we will find something unless we get a blizzard overnight hahaha...finally this afternoon we are seeing some sun..amen

life is still godd

god bless

GOOD WI-FI

oh it has been awhile since i have posted anything but due to not having good wi-fi i just didn't try..

i think the last time was in san antonio when we were that the missions...

since then we spent 6 days in the tomball, tx area and visit GW bush presidential library which we had been to before but the hoff's had not...they change the exhibits  ever so often so we saw stuff we had not seen before and found it most interesting...

on the way back to camp we stopped at the blue bell cremery and had an ice cream as we had missed a tour and they were about ready to close...what a deal you can get for only $1.00 a large scoop and some very good ice cream...

one day we visited the local museum and found it most interesting abut the area..

this is going to be short for today..more later

MORE MISSIONS

 we have been enjoying san antonio especially af

ter we got all new tires for the rig..the weather hasn't been all that great but we sure have been busy...spent on afternoon at the first mission and shent another day shopping around filling up the rig with "stuff"...sunday we went to aaron and sarah tro see their new house --visit --and out to lunch/dinner had a great tex/mex meal and more visiting...then it was time to head back to the base as we wanted to get here before dark..

the roads remind us of friday night in ithaca but only 100 times worse...

today we wanted to finish the missions so we went to 3 of them..each one is different and was for a different purpose..

then to lunch we had never eaten at a whataburger so that was the lucnheon of the day..

tomorrow we both pack up and head to the houston area for a few days...tony and caroline daughter marci and husband now live there so we will meet up with them...see the sights of houston not exactly what ones we will se but plan on bneing busy if the weather cooperates...and dosen't ice or snow..

most of the locals are complaining about the temps we say just put on another layer..

life is just going well..

MISSIONS

yesterday was spent having our tries cahgne on the rig..lar decided that i might be a good idea to replace them all so he called discount tires and made arrangements to have it done...we also moved from a partial hookup to a full hookup...so we are now all set for a few more days..

then it was time to go to lunch and what did we decide to have bu mexican found a good place and it was mmmm good..enough lunch so we all decided to skip dinner...

anyway after lunch we went to sigh see one of the misssions her in san antonio...we now have only 4 more to go...we had planned on doing another one but just ran out of time so we will visit more of them today after some errands are done...

temps are on the cold side no snow but in northern texas snow has been flying around..;ife is good