Woke up ready to go this morning. It's wonderful what 8 good hours of sleep will do for you. A nice easy morning watching the birds and the squirrels outside the window. It's also nice to see the locals doing their daily routine. The middle aged lady walking her little 'poofy' dog down the road, stopping at every tree, bush and dirt clod to sniff. Or the two older guys out for their daily constitutional. Fun.

   This afternoon it was time to dig the new bike out and take a short ride. The bike works fine, my butt, not so much. Even now it feels like I've spent days atop some broken down horse that has nothing better to do in this world than to make my backside sore. It'll get better eventually, but it may take a week or two before I'm use to it.

     Went into town this evening for a night at the theatre. The Hippodrome was doing the play 'King O' the Moon'. Basically a sequel to a play they did, and I saw, last year called 'Over the Tavern', it follows one families life as they move from the 50's on into the 60's. Set against the backdrop of the Apollo 11 flight to the moon, the show catches up with all of the characters from last year. The older brother is now married and has a wife who is 5 months pregnant. He is due to ship out for Vietnam the next day. The younger brother has run away from the seminary because he is starting to have doubts about the church now. The sister is married to a model train nut who hasn't been out of the basement for 3 years and the youngest brother, who is mentally challenged, has just been promoted from making bags to making cardboard box's. Their abusive father died three years ago and now his best friend and business partner wants to marry their mom. So with all of that going on you can see that there is a ton of material to work from and this team of actors does a wonderful job of bringing it all together. I liked it.

    Need to hit the rack earlier than usual tonight. A friend from Colorado is down here in Florida visiting one of her sons and daughter-in-law and I am to meet them over in St Augustine tomorrow for lunch. So it will be an early morning for me tomorrow. Will see after lunch whether I'll go ahead and drive over to Tampa afterwards for the contra dance in the evening. Yes it is a long way, but via the highway, it is actually only a few minutes longer than driving straight back to the trailer. Of course there is that two hour drive to do after the dance, but hey, I'm retired