December 20 can only mean one thing - it's Grandson Matthews birthday!  Happy birthday, Matthew!

We have bee away from home for just over a month now. Time is flying by as it always does when you're having fun!

Going back to our trip down, another thing I noted was the way construction and road work dealt with the traffic. We went through many road construction areas. It was interesting to note that not once were we stopped by a flag person. They just didn't have them. Also, it was rare to have the speed reduced. We sailed through the construction areas at 55 miles per hour (because we were towing, otherwise it was 65 miles per hour).   There were a lot of cones directing traffic to one side or the other, but no stoppages and few slow downs. Traffic moved along beautifully, no one got killed and there were no accidents. It was efficient and simple. We Canadians could learn a lot about keeping traffic moving from our southern neighbour!

I don't have much new to report. Dennis is working on repairing the roof of the house from the hurricane damage last spring. He is replacing some of the tin which will do the trick, with any luck at all!  Once we get the title sorted out (there has been a bit of a glitch which will delay things) then we will likely replace the whole roof next year.

It has been somewhat difficult to stay in touch without Internet and phone. We hope to have our own internet in a week or two which will then allow us to register our newly purchased magic jack which will provide us with a phone number and free calling to Canada and the USA.

I'm going to try to upload a few pictures from the iPad.

December 26 - the picture uploading from the ipad didn't work.  I'm posting this anyway.  It's out of order but it doesn't matter. 

bye again!