We are back home in the Villages, or the 'Bubble' as Alesa calls it. We spent Tuesday and Wednesday night at Jeffrey's and headed out at 7:30 on Thursday morning when everyone left for work or school. We ended up driving the entire way home, arriving at 11PM.
Trip Log
February 22, 2016
Drove from Butler to Mike's house yesterday afternoon. Today, while everybody was at work or school, Alesa and I took the train downtown to visit with Tim, our finance guy, on the 40th floor of Commerce Square. Afterwards, we walked around Chinatown then ate chinese at Reading Terminal Market.
February 21, 2016
Paul Crawford married Sarah Smith at the Atrium in Prospect, Pa. which was followed by the reception at the same place. Mike, Jeff and their families were there along with all my siblings and most nieces and nephews along with many, many old friends. It was a wonderful time.
February 19, 2016
Left home around 8:30 yesterday on our way to my nephew, Paul's, wedding in Butler Pa. Spent the night at the Red Roof in in Statesville, NC. and arrived at the Holiday Inn Express in Butler at around 3:30 today.
February 14, 2016
Dave and Kate arrived from Lakeland around noon yesterday and after lunch we borrowed the neighbor's 4 seater and the 6 of us took a long golf car ride to the Rohan Rec center and played pickleball and platform tennis.
February 13, 2016
Alesa's brother, Dave and his wife Kate flew into Orlando on Thursday and hosted a family dinner at the Garden Bistro in Lakeland. All the Florida 'Niebauers' were there.
February 11, 2016
Tonight was Smith's hot dog night at the Erie Club meeting. We had an unbelievable crowd of 160 people, biggest ever and we had to scramble to fit them all in.. We have the dogs shipped down and grill them in the parking lot and people enjoy and socialize.
February 9, 2016
It's been mostly cold and windy and sometimes wet over the last couple of weeks. Tonight we went up to the Mardi Gras celebration at Lake Sumter landing, walked around the square and watched some of the groups. It was a good time but a little windy and cool.
February 2, 2016
Ordered a custom pad for the bench. Put on temporary pads and moved the bench inside to try various configurations. Last week we had all of the 15 amp breakers trip so I contacted SECO ( our local power company) and they directed us to the village's warranty department.
January 29, 2016
The bed Alesa had when she was small has been kicking around the Niebauer family and finally ended up in our attic.