Back after the holiday weekend. Boy, it was crazy here. It felt as if half the population of the U.S. showed up at little Naples' doorstep. Weather is finally normal (low 80's) so the beaches are jammed. The photo above is at 7AM - there are NEVER beach chairs set up then. The weather reporters (they love this stuff) just reported this was the coldest winter for Naples since 1942. Okay, okay I know everyone north DOES NOT CARE, just thought I'd present that small fact.
We went to the farmer's market Sat and bought a few things, but sadly, only one vendor had a sign out for myer lemons and the small basket was bare. Guess we're at the end of that. Hope you made great stuff with yours Tiffany!
Mark wanted to watch our newly purchased African Queen dvd, and naturally I jumped all over that. Classic of a lifetime! The story is still great, Humphrey Bogart won his only oscar for this (how can that be?),the special effects a little hokey (no digital Avatar capabilities then - 1951), and Katherine Hepburn was very sick through most of the filming in Africa (due to her stern position on no alcohol - drank water instead - yup, dysentary, along with most of the crew. Bogart and John Huston (director) were fine, due to sloshing alcohol down at any & every opportunity. Hmmm...lessons here?
Had a wonderful Easter dinner with friends at their club. A mile long buffet, and hadn't seen that much pastel in a very long time. Part of the whole experience.
Finished book #25 (Yes Lisa, it continues...) The Sunlight on the Garden by Elizabeth Speller. It was very good, her memoir which incorporated her life, her mother's, and grandmother's, all with apparently inherited depression tendencies. She grew up in England (yup, that again) and is my age, but that's about all the similarities between the two of us. Great writing, fascinating family, a little disturbing, but a happy ending (she's alive & kicking and just published a new novel). 4 stars from me.
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