Saturday, February 9

No snow here yet, but it is a little chilly-crisp 48 out.  Had to pit the heat on this morning.  I know, just what u want to hear.  Understand that it is still snowing, but not hearing of power outages yet, so I'm glad to hear that.  Thank you very much to the Smiths and the Zilms for watching over our home.
Still at Grayton Beach.  Yesterday it was warm enough to spend time lounging on the beach.  We were there for several hours and even got our feet wet.  Lots of wave action, and since we were the only ones on the beach we didn't  venture out too far.  By the time we left there were about a dozen sharing the beach with us.
While driving around, we have seen small shopping areas that we thought we would at least browse through.  First one was here in Santa Rosa, which is where The state park is.  That one was a bust.  Building were all cute, but nothing of interest so we went through Watercolor, and up to Seaside.  Yea, the town is Watercolor.  The main road is very narrow, and the street lights have shades on them.  The houses along the road all seem to have three floors and on the beach side they are atleast two houses deep.  And they are all pastel colors.  There are some parking spots for access to the 'public beach' but we whew passing through onto Seaside.  Seaside also has shops, but these were open, so we could browse.  That's about all we did. Very pricey.  In one of the magazines we had picked up, there was a write up about the 'Airstream' dining.  On the corner of one street, there are four Airstream trailers being used.  One sells grilled cheese sandwiches, but tsince they didn't have them with grape jelly, we didn't dine there.  (My Brightman family knows about those delicacies).  So we had Barbecue nachos with pork (and baked beans).  I told Russ that I'm hoping that the cheese was not velveeta.  They were good.  Russ had his I'm on island time Tshirt on, so the owner told us he lived in St. Thomas for twelve years.  We knew that as we had read it in the guide book.  Not to be outdone, I told him we owned a small island in Maine.  He'd heard the weather report so he knew why we were in FL.
Also got a few pictures of the sunset, and Russ tells me he took pics of the sunrise this morning.  He's out washing either the truck or the camper right now, so he'll download those later.
Hope you all get shoveled out, and the electricity stays on.  Love,Linda