No Snow in Florida

To start with there is no snow in Florida, rain yes but no snow.

The Curry's are still showing us the ropes. Today's tip is to buy your gas at Wal-Mart and use a Walt-Mart Gift Card. Wal-Mart has the cheapest gas and if you use the gift card you get another 3 cents off per gallon. And of course if you use your credit card to buy the gift card you get another 1% back on your credit card. I'm learning fast.

We went down to the Red Barn which is a huge Flea Market. Polly bought a watch for $5 plus a lot of ofter stuff. As always we visited a relative. Holly (the daughter of Sandra and Gary) has a permanent store there (Painted Gate). Isn't she a doll? She has her mother's looks and her bright smile.

On the way back we stopped at the Apollo Beach Power Plant which has a ton of Manatees gathered around the water outfall from the plant. This year has been a cold winter so the gathering of manatees is the largest ever. The shutter on my camera isn't fully opening so I had to crop this photo down to a couple of Manatees so you'll just have to take my word that there were hundreds.

We went up to Winter Haven to look at a couple of houses and on the way we stopped at Plant City where the Currys showed us a fruit stand that specialized in Strawberry Sundaes. These cost only $2.50 and were delicious. They had a tented garden with all kinds of alcoves for you to sit and eat them. Polly couldn't have one because of the seeds - and she complained about it all day.

Lakeland and Winter Haven look promising - houses on a lake for only $150K.