Lazy Sunday

Lou and I were up at 5:30 am having our morning coffee (me) and his tea. After an hour we went back to bed...a delightful way to spend a sunday morning! Our new neighbor next door had her stereo vibrating against our bedroom wall so at the early hour of 9:30 am we got our lazy bums up. We got ourselves dressed finally and went out to breakfast. We hadn't been over to the gulf coast lately and frankly have been afraid of seeing an oily mess, but we braved it and drove out. It's about 12 miles west of us here in Safety Harbor. Beautiful warm day. Everything you would expect on a June morning in Florida. I have done more exploring than Lou has over the last 3 1/2 years we have owned the shop and especially the last 10 months living here in S.H.
Last fall I had bought a twin bedroom set for the WSC out at Indian Shores Beach and remembered seeing some old style cafes along the road there so that is where we headed.

Found a breakfast cafe with lot of cars parked in front so that is where we stopped. Parking just around the corner where there is a path to the beach. Breakfast was slow, Lou got his kilbasa and eggs before my oatmeal and then I had to ask for milk and he had to remind the gal for his home fries...not a good sign. But the food was ok and we got out of there because they didn't believe in AC...fans, but no AC or turned down to save money....who knows?!

The beach looked so inviting so we walked out to it. Not a wide beach, but there wasn't too many people either. The water was perfectly tropical looking, with the green/blue and deep blue swaths depending on the depth...very nice.! We will be going back there! The area we went through before we got to Indian Shores was full of the typical Florida high rises and fancy landscaping...not our style at all.

Yesterday we had called on a Craigslist ad for an O'Day sailboat. It looked really nice in the pictures. The fellow called us back today and we went over. They were close by in town so we took the beat up old pick up just in case we bought it, we could tow it home. It was a project boat; more for the mold removal and bottom paint job that it desperately needed. Lou's work just is too demanding to have any project boats. He was asking way too much for the shape it was in too. I told him as we were leaving if he wanted to put the boat in the water at our dock, we'd paint the bottom, clean it up and just share it....probably not going to happen. I think people just need cash right now and I am not letting go of ours till the perfect little boat shows up.

Monday morning tomorrow and I am back up to Brooksville to do housekeeping following our guests check out today. Sure hope it isn't a monster job! A family from Virginia coming in on Saturday.