Another Wednesday.

Our favorite stop on Wednesday is of course, Parksdale, for strawberry sundaes. this is Caitlin from Pendleton. She is with her Grandparents for spring break. She is a sweet young lady, and amazed at all the grey haired persons in the area. Oh, yeah, that is Florida.




and this is her Grandmother. We had already been to the Cookie factory. They will meet with the rest of the family this week end in Orlando. They bought two bags of cookies. 4 Grandchildren and 6 adults. The cookies will not last long, if they got there.

and here she is with her Grandparents, Clayton and Rita. Rita and I have known each other for many years and share the same birthday. Altho, I have to admit, she is a few years younger than me. We have good times and they are a part of our card club. That was the first short cake I had had. I still prefer my strawberries with out any kind of cake.

And then there are these to "lovelly' people. This is DUKE and his woman. When I ask him his name he said "it is Duke and ?, my friends call me Duke" So I call him Duke, as we want to stay on his good side. He and his woman are the "traffic persons" at the flea market. Stay on the left side, Can't you see these cars trying to get thru.? Walk on the left side, I tell you! And only once or twice did I see him with shoes on his feet. And that was a very cold and wet day. but by the time we left he was shoeless again. She tells you where to park and how to get out of the park. She wears shoes and, well, she is usually well covered. You have to see her to understand, the two do go together. I wonder what else he does and if they pay them to be there. Friendly, if you talk to them. Characters in our picture of Florida and the Flea market at Plant City. I did find a nice, collectible fork there this week.

the January, Tampa RV Super show, at a booth, they had a petition to sign that these half buried RV's, (air stream) was an art project, not junk!

We had seen them last year and so we signed the petition. Something neat to see. Just past these is an Air Stream dealer. Enough votes were garnered that the County commissioners said they could stay.





Another interesting item in the paper today. From the strawberry growers. They plant the berries over a

period of time so that they will have

berries all spring. The freeze was a problem, and then they all blossomed and produced berries at the same time. Now the market is flooded with berries and they cannot sell them at a profitable price.They do not want to put but a few acres in "you pick" berries as they have already planted cucumber plants and they could be hurt by people walking thru. Plus liability issues. But they are definitely sweet and good. And California berries are starting to hit the market.

Both neighbors are gone for a few days. Jack to his girl friends in Clearwater, and Austin and Linda to see their son graduate form Seaman School.

Oh, yes. We now have 5 red lawn chairs. There was another one in the dumpster last evening.

Should we get it? Sure, why not, we have plenty of bright red webbing. We are now being teased by our neighbors about being dumpster divers. We just check our the parks dumpster when we go put our trash in. You never know what bargains you may find. We have left a TV, chest of drawers and other stuff. Oh, also on Tuesday, Ernie came in and said there is a little
Dirt Devil vacuum beside the dumpster. Oh, No. Not another one. But I looked at it and we brought it home. Took out the very full bag, cleaned it up and bought some more bags at the flea market. Works great. Has a collapsible handle too. Better than the little hand vac we use. You never know.

About time for lunch. Then we may have to go to Busch Gardens. See you. jkc

OOps, Ernie is outside. He just said, there goes another chair. Oh, My!
No, it was a step stool and does not fold up. so we left it there for some other dumpster diver.