Well Thursday was a fun day all day as we traveled with neighbors and good friends Dan and Carol to visit the Tracy's near Dade City which is about an hour or so north of us for day that included some new adventures as well as some fine eatin' at their hacienda later in the afternoon.
I started the day much the usual with a before 6 roll out to my usual cup of hot green tea laced with turmeric and fresh ginger while I posted this ramble and then lifted up several to my Creator as well as gave thanks. I headed out to hand water the gardens as I knew it would be dark when we got back later in the evening from our adventure. I even ate a large breakfast as we would be skipping lunch except for some snacks while away from their place another hour or so north to the blueberry orchard. It is a place we visited 2 years ago after leaving the Villages and picked berries and loaded up with some blueberry wine.
The area we visited was marked with lots of farms, horse as well as cattle of all kinds many Texas Long Horns which was unusual too see in Florida and many sod farms. The hills are rolling but nothing to write home about except for very large oak trees and a few citrus groves but after picking blueberries we found a U Pick peach orchard and picked several bags from an organic orchard. They were rather small but oh so tasty. The blueberries were as large as the end of your finger and we picked 4 gallons with the 6 of us in less than an hour. Some of us tasted the vino and brought some. I was driving so I passed on the tasting but we did get a couple bottles for a later dinner date. The berries were 20 bucks a gallon and the peaches were 15 bucks a gallon.
We got back to their house around 4:ish and had some cheese and crackers as the frozen lasagna needed an hour to bake so we taught the Tracy's the game"dice" which we learned from Toni and Mark when they were visiting this winter. Dan was the last to meld but won the game as he hit 10,000 points right on the nose. Nancy was the first to get close to that mark then Carol and then me but hitting that total takes some luck and we were rolling several times in the area. It was a hoot and very raucous to say the least.
The meal was awesome and delicious with a fresh salad and crusty bread to accompany the lasagna. After the cleanup we walked outside as the evening had mellowed from the heat of the day and watched three alligators in the back yard pond. One was a large gator at 7-8 ft and the two other ones were in the 3-5 ft in length. We tuned into the FOX Cable News and it was all about the Mueller Report which cleared our POTUS Trump of any collusion but the dem's are having a fit as they thought Mueller was their gift to impeaching our Potus. It's such a shame the dem's are so filled with the TDS its laughable if it wasn't so obvious they want this businessman to fail as well as the nation he is trying to save from their past 8 years of failure and division with the fake and fraud potus obama.
We tuned into the Ray's game and they were leading while we had a delicious dessert of blueberry short cake.(I do not know if they won as I turned the lights at 10) My that was so good and then we decided to head for Seminole which took us an hour drive. Thankfully it was clear sailing for a change but the traffic was still quite heavy. It was a great day and filled with new scenery in the rural areas just a few miles north of Tampa. There were some magnificent estates and beautiful farms, LATER
