DEWEY IN FLORIDA

Amy's Wish Off with friend Susan to see a fine local production of a Comedy where the heroine finds the fountain of youth. Also toured their small art gallery and saw a new show of really interesting and delightful paintings and photographs by locals. The play was funny and very well staged. The acting was great. What a fine matinee and just about a mile or so away from home.

Mary and Ruth stayed the night and we had a grand time catching up on stories.  We still all talk too much about illness, but that is just what we do as old people. Here we are at the best restaurant in the world, Van der Vaulk out on the patio area. Seemed odd without Chuck.  Perhaps next year he will be down here. We all had some of the seafood special. The women all had salmon.   I had flounder stuffed with crab, a bit off diet, especially for the French fries which I managed to get extra crispy.  No house chips available.  The French onion soup was good. We had a great waitress, dark haired, friendly and cute.  Melly, the owners daughter was there as well. She is always so friendly with us. As we ate, the sunset.  It was not dramatic color, but fine ambiance just the same.  Along side us were about a dozen Netherlands folk speaking their language.  As the sunset the old lamps came on and they started up some of the firepits.  I do like this place. On the way out our

We drove down to spend a few days on Ana Maria Island with friends Donna and Peter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Maria_Island It is about three hours from our place in Inverness with stops and traffic.  It is not uncommon to get in long lines of bumper to bumper traffic even when settled on the island.  It might take 20 minutes to drive 2 miles.  But seen differently, everything we did was very close to the house.  Often here and at Burden Lake we spend the same amount of time driving to activities.   We visited beaches and piers, spent at day at the Shelby Botanical Garden https://selby.org/ And we spent an hour at the Florida Maritime Museum with a great volunteer who knew his stuff. DAY 1 WE WENT TOURING BEACHES AND PIERS It was fine weather in spite of a cool morning and the sights were grand.  We saw some dolpin and birds and visited fishermen.  We even saw one catch a sheepshead.  It was a bit too rough for me to swim and keep water out of my b