Happy Birthday Squeegie 2012

Yes - yesterday was Squeegie's birthday.  How old is our boy bear?  Believe it or not - he is 11 yrs. old!  Pretty good for a bear!  I must admit that he's not as fuzzy as he used to be, but he's still a going concern.  On Monday Poppa pulled his golf clubs .....

.... out of the garage to put them in the car and....

.... Squeegie got his clubs ready too and....off they went to the golf course.  While they were gone Taffy and I sat outside and read for a while....oh goodness.... I have been forgetting to let you see what I am reading this year....I'll do that in my next blog!  We did some knitting and watched some TV, and when the boys came back from golfing we went to the Longhorn Steakhouse for their birthday dinner.  Since it was early in the day - we avoided the supper rush - and the boys enjoyed their steak.  The weather has been so perfect this year - we went.....

back to the beach a couple of weeks ago.  We wandered up and down for about four hours - the water was a little colder than it was just after Christmas, but the sun was hot and we enjoyed it as much as ever.  We saw....

.... this pelican trolling for his supper and we saw....

.... him in a short while with supper in his pouch.  We watched him for quite a while.  He caught quite a few fish and the gulls seemed to hang around - in case he dropped some we're guessing.  Further up the beach I saw.....

....an artist taking advantage of the beautiful weather and the beautiful vista, catching his rendition on canvas.  Later I espied....

.... this gull having dinner.  I wasn't sure exactly what he was feasting on, so I asked a passerby.....turns out this bird had expensive taste........ it was crab!  Finally......

.... we decided that we had wandered long enough and headed home to have our own supper!

Yesterday we stopped in at Denis's villa for a couple of minutes..... we checked the inside to ensure that all was as it should be.....

....Poppa took a couple of minutes to water the plants he had so carefully planted, and then....

.... I couldn't resist taking a photo of the bougainvillea bush.  I don't know if it was the perfect weather, or Poppa's careful application of fertilizer - but this little bush is beautiful!