Well I must say yesterday, Sunday found us with unbelievably beautiful weather. I know if your anywhere but Florida you were having some very cold weather with some blizzard conditions in the far northeast and below zero temps in the mountains of the Carolina's. We had a busy fun filled day as we met with the New Life Village complex near Element in Tampa for a 2 plus hour block party and then later in the evening we met niece Arianne and husband Errol who are in the area from Miami for the weekend at the Bone Fish Grille for supper.
The day started with a 6'ish roll out as we got ready for our weekly trip to Tampa and Element Church. We got to love up on our son Bobby who is back to leading the praise music and our grand kiddo's Annsley and Gabriel. We had a nice crowd and Blake did an awesome message on one of the fruits of the spirit; patience. His main theme was on the oldest story in the Bible about Job and his perseverance in his faith and love for GOD when he was put to the test regarding his faith. He did an amazing job and is a natural speaker. We are so blessed with such talented young folks in this day an age who hold true to the tenets of Jesus's teaching. What a contrast to what is happening with the radicals of an ideology that if you don't become one of them they cut your head off or burn you alive. I'm dismayed that we have allowed this kind of thinking and teaching to infiltrate our culture and I hate to say it, but our potus has appeased them and is even sympathetic in the name of political correctness. He has said we are no longer a christian nation. I wonder what history class or book he studied as we were founded by the Pilgrims and their need for freedoms that were based on christian principles and tenets found in the Bible.
After the service we traveled about a mile away to the New Life Village and met up with several owners from Element and introduced ourselves by way of a block party to the kids and their adoptive parents. We provided the eats; grilled dogs, chips, cookies, peanuts and drinks as well as a huge bouncy tent, face painting, kick ball, tug rope, hula hoop contests and lots of music with a DJ. The weather was perfect and the bright sunshine made for a very pleasant and comfortable outing. We met several of the adults who have adopted foster kids and their siblings. There were older adults as well who provide the atmosphere of complete families with the grand parent atmosphere.
This complex is huge and gated and it was brought to my attention they want to grow a community garden but needed someone to give them a plan and some insight into Florida gardening. I met with the director and he was very much interested with the idea and had already picked out a spot that provided a large area that already had water available for irrigation. We have several in our church who live near by and can provide some help as well but mainly the parents of the complex wants to do the project but needs a plan to get started. I will draw up what they need to get started and provide some pointers as they or we proceed with this partnering idea for this new idea of giving foster kids who are adopted a sense of a stable family life. We may even be an influence on some who could be making life changing decisions.
We got back around 2:30 and I settled into running the sprinkler on the gardens as the temps reached nearly 80 degrees; but there was no humidity which made it rather pleasant. We made plans to meet up with GG, Arianne, Errol and Betsy at 5:30 in Largo for supper. We had a sumptuous meal of rainbow trout, bang bang shrimp, lobster bisque and salmon. A little vino flowed as well as some of the best sourdough bread. I broke my diet with both the bread and the Thai dish which was very spicy and loaded with shrimp. I even tasted the chocolate cremeboule'(sic) which was very tasty.
We came back to our house to play games but everyone was too full so we sat around and played with Eliza, Ava and Sam as Amy came by for a visit. They got into watching the HGTV show where remodeling goes on so I headed into to watch the story about the missing teacher from Georgia. That has been 10 years or more since she disappeared and nary a clue as to what happened to her. She was a beauty queen as well, liked by all is this small town and not one clue has ever turned up to where she is or even if she is still alive. What a mystery and no viable suspects as well.
It was close to midnight before they headed out. Betsy was asleep on the couch and GG was nodding off as well. I didn't feel bad as I told everyone good-night and got ready for bed a little after 11, LATER
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