Saurday 11/1 The “B’s” Breakfast and Bear

 Picture of the day

 When wandering around we have been entertained by some famous folk.  Once in Rondout Valley NY, we ran upon a FREE concert by two singers  BJ Thomas  and Billy Joe Royal. Good stuff!

WE saw Mel Tillis sing once not 5 miles from where I sit in 2004. Until then We had never seen a Florida Black Bear. Mel was singing at the Black Bear Festival and they bought a black bear up on the stage. 

BUT for now:

Once when I was trying to get rich Sherry told me she didn’t want to be rich, just be able to eat out once or twice a week. I said I will go for that, Like if I want to eat in Hawaii we can go and come back.  LOL WE finally made it.

BUT to qualify that, we seldom eat out now.  But this morning we went out to a small diner close here. WE each had 2 eggs, bacon, hashbrowns and coffee. Including a tip it was only about $32.00!!!!!!. LOL  me thinks we are rich.

But WE enjoyed it, my girl didn’t think the hash browns were brown enough though. ;-)  (they were hashwhites)

AS I sat there an old man and his wife came in and took a seat just in my view. He looked like a cowboy.  Most folks do not realize it, but Florida was once loaded with cows and cowboys.  There are still many ranches here.  As a matter of fact, We have more horse ranches than in Kentucky. (Texas is first of course.)

Does your mind ever rest, or are you always thinking and wondering? I cannot stop my mind, I am always working on a problem, i.e. Why will our furnace work one day and not another? If not that, I will find something to worry around.  Today I was looking at the rancher, wondering what the problem is?  He looked so deep in thought, that is what made me wonder…  I never asked him what he was so concentrated on.  LOL  I didn’t want to get shot. ;-)

Ok, leaving the diner we headed to an Awning Company. Mark needs an awning on his RV. I got the address off the net and it was only a few miles. We turned and turned and finally ended up on a dirt road, then it went to a single lane dirt road. Then we came to the dead end. GPS said you have arrived!

So I called their phone # and got a recording; left a msg and we headed out. 

Everyone knows we have lots of alligators, but you may not know Florida has Black Bears. SOOOO before we got off the one lane road, we got to see a Florida Black Bear, it jumped in front of us, ran up and across the road.

The one above (shows my poor photographer's ability ) was on the stage with Mel.

This bear (from the net) above could have been the one we saw! It was about this size.

WE said about the same time, “If this was a wild goose chase, it was worth it!”  YES it was…  WE have seen bears in the mts, but that was the first bear in the wild here..

Nite Shipslog

PS. 

The Awning man did return my call and I learned what I needed.. Time is moving on, Love from FL