The Park and the Air Show

I know it's been "a bit" since I updated this blog so here goes.   We've been at the park a little under a week and we are enjoying the "retired life."

We unhooked the trailer and parked it in RV storage on the east side of the golf course.

Florida is "blessed" with wild pigs and they destroy the golf course at night.   The park has someone that traps them, but these are new "holes" so I guess the trapper hasn't gotten all of the pigs yet.

Here's the layout of the course.   It's the only golf course that Sheryl and I will ever play on.  Membership is $20 for the two of us for a year.   We can go out and play a couple of holes and then go do something else, if we want to.  We don't keep score 'cause we don't want to count that high.   We go out and whap the golf balls just for fun.

Here's some of the wildlife.   

 This could be an Ibis

And these are three of the pet goats.  The goats are "park pets."   No jokes about old goats please! 

Saturday November 5 was a free air show at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, featuring the Air Force Thunderbirds.   We arrived there around 1:30 p.m. for the 2:30 show.  After walking about one half a mile from the parking lot, we arrived at the flight line.   There were over 50,000 people at the show.

 The flight-line featuring the Thunderbirds

The flight line with the Thunderbirds.

Guess who is standing in the hatch of a C-117?   That's me and and Phil, our son who lives in Lakeland.  Sheryl is taking the picture.

 Another shot of some of the crowd.

The traffic was horrendous but the show was worth it.

The pilots who fly these F-16's are amazing.

The C-117 you see here can land and take off from a 3500 un-paved airstrip.   That's pretty good performance.


We went to church at Light and Life Park Church this morning and then hit the Smokey Bones Restaurant for lunch - Sheryl's sister Judi had a special coupon for us.   Even though there was a little rain this afternoon, I'm sitting under the carport, outside, writing this and it's very nice.  I think we've found warmth.

Next week I'll start planning how I'm going to paint the outside of the mobile.  The shutters have to be removed and the whole trailer has to be washed.   Then we'll have to mask off the places we don't want the paint (like the windows) and then set up the sprayer and go to it.  But for now, for today, I'm going to post this and finish my coffee.