TRAVELING DAY

no pictures today as i didn't take any...hows that for an excuse!!!!!!!! we left old town about 9:30 in the rain and t/storms...we drove in it for about 2 hrs then it was just cloudy and cooooooool...

we decided to hold up in penscola, fl for 3??4?? days before heading west...not much to report as today was a travel and we even had to change time zones so now we are in central time...it will throw us off a wee bit but i'm sure we can handle it...just think that stuff on tv at 8 will be on at 7..so next sunday when the super bowl in on we will watch it an hour earlier...good for the time we go to bed...

tomorrow we plan on going to the navy/air force museum we have been acopuple of times before but it is a nice museum even the price is right FREE...we may even check out a bike trail not sure about doing it or not as the temps aren't as warm as southern florida...suppose to go into the low 30"s tonight just like the first week in dade city..may take the hose off just in case of freezing...even have the furnace on...

so all's still going according to schedule what ever that is but we are on it....

MITCHELL

isn't this just a beautiful picture of mitch...it was done for us by a habitat friend...jean asked me one day if she could paint mitch...of course i said..she likes to paint animals and she showed me some of the ones she had done for others...she took a picture of him on friday the weekend we were to leave and by sunday she had it doine...it is now framed as you can see and as soon as we get a hook we will find a place to hang him...we sure are grateful for the painting as it will be a reminder for years to come...she is a specail person as mitch is a special dog..

god bless

NATURE COAST TRAIL 1/28/10

yesterday we took off on a bike ride on the nature coast trail..at one place it splits into three different directions so we took one..ended up doing 18 miles and today we plan on doing another section of it....as you can see by the pictures how nice it is...NO hills just nice with a little bit of rise and some small curves on the trail..met several others who were also enjoyig the trail...we have done part of this trail several years ago and wanted to do more of it...it is in old town which for most of us makes us think of maine

in a way it is nice to kick back and not have to worry about getting up to go to work --that will change soon...this part of florida is horse and cos country..we have gone by many large farms with some beautiful fences and reminds us of kentucky...one would never think of florda as cow country but it is...

tonigt out to dinner for fish as we've been told there is a great seafood restaurant that is reasonable...so why not it is friday and we like fish....rain in the forecast for tomorrow and possible a tornado so we will need to be on the outlook...

DISNEY

ok we finally made it to disney!!!!arrived there about 3pm on monday and decided to take a dry run to see how the bus system worked and where to go to get our tickets and what evder else we needed to know...no problem finding the right bus to take to epcot and went to guest relations where we were told to pick up our tickets..then on to the monorail for another dry run and after which we took to boat ride back to fort wilderness camoground...not a problem...but then on tuesday when we wanted to go to the park first thing we messed up with the bus system..then we finally got to the right place only to have the system break down..so it took us about 1 1/2 hr to get to the park..then off to get our tickets where we were told the day before only to be told we needed to go to anther place to pick them up,,,finally we did that and had tickets in hand...we got inside the park about 2 hr later than we thought we would..so off we go to see the sights and ride the rides..started off with the space ride not a problem...had map in hand and planned our day...saw lots rode lots of rides and even got a couple of fast passes--for those of you who have never gotten a fast pass you get a ticket that tells you when to come back to stand in line for the ride but it puts you in another loine which goes much faster that the other lines....we wure were glad we didn't go on a busy day cause there were lots of others there and if it were spring break or a vacation time the lines sure would have been much longer and many more people around...we hade fun but right now would we rush back...i don't think so...the park was very clean and most were helpful if we asked any questions...i guess amusement parks just aren't things for us...but we can cross off disney from our bucter lists....i'm not crazy about rides but the ones we took were not problem for me...as they didn't go off the ground very high nor very fast....

we had planned on going back in the evening but after it took us so long to get there we decided to stay till about 6 then just go back to the campground to walk mitch and stay there...so that is what we did as it took us over an hour to get back..then we would have had to turn around right away to et there in time for the fire works and who knows we might have missed them due to the bus system...all in all it was a good day even with a few snaffus...that's life

so now we are in old town, fl and for the next couple of days we planned on bike riding...

LAST CARE-A-VANNERS CAMP FIRE

the last day was for the most part uneventful...about 5tam friday morning it started to rain again and i mean rain-hard...we woke up and both of us said it sounds like we won't be working today so we went back to sleep only to wake about 6:30 or so and it wasn't raining so we thought we had better get up cause there will be work...so up we got and sure enough we worked...

got alot done ..lar continued to work on the chain link fence he had been doing for a coupbe of days and i went back to work on the 100's of hurricane clips but not till after i had put up some insulation on a wall...after which it was back to the clips and rechecking the clips and then again and again..they have to have the right amopunt of clips in each one or the inspector won't pass the house..there is NO way an hurricane in going to mess up these houses

the evening going away gathering was around the camp fire and a hot dog roast...the gals had a special award for one of the site bosses a special award...so don hickman composed us a song which is one of the pictures--one is of othe volunteer organizer of the affilate here in dade city..then of course lar presented the team leaders a gift form us--they did a great job....

so on monday we move on to disney for a day after that we are heading to lousianna where we are scheduled for another build..meeting tony and caroline..bt firdt we are meeting outside new orleans at a state park for a feew days before we have to report at the next build...

hope you are all enjoy the winter we are...

THURSDAY-ONE MORE DAY

today we thought we might get rained off but it held off till we got thru work and as a matter of fact it hasn't rained yet very hard...got alot of work done...iworked on nailing in hurricane clips and it muct have been hundreds..i evn went uo 3 rungs on a ladder...good for me as i don like ladders buyt i told myself i can do it and by the grace of god i did it....it is hot tedious work and by the time the day was over my arms knew i had pounded nails in all day...

lar worked on instuling fence around the house that was dedicated last saturday..each home owner gets a fence ;put around their property...

tomorrow is the lat day of work for us on this build..it will be sad in away to leave as we have made lots of new friends--but we still have to old--it has been a great group to worlk with and everyone gets al;ong like family..we are just a bunch of amish buikding a house or two...the pictures as you will see are the whole group or most of it that we have worked with this past 2 weeks...

MONDAY ON TUESDAY

because we were off yesterday that is why monday falls on tues this week..today was a very busy day..the men worked on putting the trusses up and some of us were the ground part of it...there was a good working bunch so they all got up and tomorrow the sheating will started up and who knows how far that will go...we a re now down to only three more days of work..

most interesting today we had a couple come for the day working on their disney tickets from near watertown and atlunch we got talking and she was into to training dogs etc so i asked if she knew shirley hubble yes she says...also one of the straw bosses worked at a plant where one of my brother-in-laws worked in michigan..so i says it is a small world...you just never know where you might just run into some one you know or knows someone you know etc...life is good and god bless yu all