The Woods and Davidsons enjoyed a fine weekend in southwest Florida.  We enjoyed a walk in Lakes Park, walks, jogs, swims, and great meals at Heritage Cove.  Mark and Mary Helen were blessed to have both sets of parents here. They enjoyed their time in the warmth and returned to a storm in New York on Tuesday.  We resumed our more hum-drum schedule here but made a wonderful canoe trip on that day.  See notes on that below. 

A cold front arrived yesterday uneventfully.  There was a stillness and fog at dawn.  Anne and I (Chuck) worked up a cleansing sweat jogging around Brant Point Circle.  We greeted and chatted with a dozen or so couples and singles walking dogs or themselves along the course.  Usually, in consequence of this being a "senior community," we are the only ones actually running. 

It is dawn at our little house in the forest.  Cloudy and 24 degrees, but only traces of snow among the leaf litter.  Forecasters have annonced that the threatening storm will materialize out to sea and allow Chuck's sister and parents to come up the montain to join our Christmas feast.  Last year heavy snow kept them away.

Norb came home from Iwo Jima and Japan on our wedding anniversary February 5th, 1946. Norb's family brought us to Loudonville immediately to enjoy our new home. The kitchen stoves and other appliances had not been manufactured for the war years. Somehow we acquired a Westinghouse slow cooker with a wire burner on top. We cooked on that for a long time.

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For Mom.