Father's Day

Egg plant flower.

I snapped this picture of an egg plant flower yesterday just before it got dark. Just after this we lost electricity in the whole area. Every one started going outside and riding around in cars it was weird. But it was too hot just to sit in the house with out air conditioning. The power was out for over an hour. The sun set and we started a little camp fire in the back yard. Then the lights came back on.

Today

Chris had a good father's day. We stopped by Mom's picked her up and went out to eat at Pier 16 in Orange City. The food was pretty good. Everyone enjoyed it. I had flounder, Chris had grouper, Veronica had the gator and Erica had shrimp scampi, Mom had the pop corn shrimp and Karen had Chicken. It was the first time Veronica ever ate gator. They served it battered and deep fried. She said it was delicious. Most people say it taste like chicken but I always thought it taste more like fried clams.

It's Hot!!!

Banana peppers

These banana peppers weren't hot. We actually picked them and ate them already. As you can see my garden is full of weeds and it just keeps getting worse. It's been to hot to weed. I'm outside at work all day, dieing in the heat, and when I get home I'm too zonked out to do much of anything. They keep talking about the heat index and having warnings about going out for too long. Luckily I've been getting done early every day so I'm out of the heat by around 2:00pm. After that the heat is just brutal.

Just think summer starts tomorrow and its going to start to really get hot.

Also I've observed as the heat goes up people get stupider. Well, not really stupider just more air headed. Everyone at work is complaining about it. This one guy was telling me he left for his route the other day and instead headed home. Which was in the opposite direction. He didn't say how far he got before he turned around. But the general idea is.... there has to be a correlation between how hot it is and brain function. Or maybe it's just the length of time spent at high temperatures. I wonder if that means people in hotter areas are not as with it in general as in the cold. Oh, no! That can't be right.

Tomorrow we are taking Chris out to dinner at Pier 66 for fathers day. Happy fathers day to all you fathers.

Erica

Here is Erica with her stitches. She went to the beach last Wednesday and ended up swimming at a hotel pool in Daytona. She went to climb out and hit her elbow on a broken tile and cut it wide open. She ended up with 5 stitches. But I guess she learned her lesson. She is doing just fine now.

avoiding the storms.

I just missed all the storms today on my way back to work and home. There was a big storm on one side of the highway.

and another big storm on the other side of me. Then as I neared the post office I noticed the clouds above swerling couter clockwise. So I hurried and unloaded and got inside. Luckily the clouds passed over with just a little wind. It scared me pretty good though.

On the way home the lightning display was amazing. And the sky was pitch black with white clouds in front of it. Luckily I only got a few drops on the wind shield the whole time.
I got home and Chris had made a meat loaf with a banana pepper in it and squash that he picked from the garden. It was really good an hit the spot. We've got a great big egg plant growing now. I can't wait to taste it.

squash and tomatoes from our garden.

We are all praying for Evan who has Leukemia.