bird correction

this is an ibis not a wood duck. When George said wood duck he meant wood stork, which they also have down here but they are bigger birds.  I will have to try to get a picture of them too.

Saturday, Nov 16

Wildlife on my morning walk.  It was raining but not hard and it was not cold.  

George says these are called wood ducks.

and then "regular" ducks (how is that for a species name)

We went to run some errands this morning like the bank, the post office and Salvation Army.  Then to the rec room to do emails and blog stuff.  We have more errands to do this afternoon.  

Nov 15 afternoon

After lunch we went back to Jane's room to work some more.  

George sitting in Jane's favorite chair.  Luckily we did not have to do anything with the furniture and we things like the wheel chair.  So we left quite a bit behind.  Plus we threw away bags and bags of trash.  Even still we had a full vehicle going back with us to the condo.  Even though I had not been here often there was still a feeling of sadness when we left.

In keeping with our international theme we picked up Chinese food and took it back to the condo.  

We tried to go to the German House.  It looked fabulous but it was also packed.  We could not even make reservations for Saturday night.  If we had only known we could have made reservations earlier.

George spent the evening going through the stuff that we had brought back with us.  We had a big Salvation Army pile in the living room.  

Nov 15 morning

Jane's end of the lake.

I walked around the lake this morning.  It is 0.79 miles around.

Jane's condo

There is a woman who live near to Jane who feeds the egrets.  

There are a lot of them around

We went to the funeral home.  George had to sign a bunch of papers.

Then to St Mark's Assisted Living place

Door to Jane's room.

We spent the morning cleaning out some of her stuff.  We filled up one car load.  Drove home to have lunch and then soon we will head back to work some more.  

Holiday, Florida

George's mom died peacefully in her sleep Tues, Nov 12.  We were planning to go to Florida anyway this weekend so we kept to those plans.  George has a bunch of paperwork to do and I can help with cleaning out her room at the assisted living place in Palm Harbor.  It was a long day of flying today.  Because I had decided to join him after he had made plans I could no longer go on the same flight.  He left 15 minutes before me and arrived 2 hours before me in Tampa.  Tampa is about an hours drive away when there is no traffic so it was a little longer today.  We are staying in Jane's condo in Holiday.  George has a list of things he has to do like turn on the electricity and water.  We did a little grocery shopping on the way here.

After settling in we walked to Angelo's for dinner.  Spinach lasagna was good.  I am glad we shared.  Darn - I forgot to take a picture until after we had cut into it.

Tomorrow will be busy.

We can only get on Wifi at the rec center so I may not be connecting as often.  Weather is balmy.

home again

We all went to breakfast at Tower Cafe.  I should have taken a picture but I was too hungry.  Jeanne and I split their signature french toast.  Fabulous.  Erin could join us.  Ben had already gone to work.  After breakfast we took Erin to work and then we had a few errands to do like take me to the airport. What a great visit I had.

My flight home was uneventful - I made it safe and sound.

Exploratorium

We drove into San Francisco to go to the Exploratorium

What a lot of fun that was.

Don't do this at home.

A cool shadow screen.

A fog bridge

Jeanne in a perspective room

We sat out on the deck for lunch and then later for a sit-down.  Sean could run around and chase pigeons.  

Sean on a mirror

A toothpick construction

A toothpick construction close up

Worn out - what a day.