Settling in

The title says it all......life enjoying the heat and the pool has been virtually incident free.....nothing to blog about!

The highlight of the week so far has been our snowbird neighbour casting his newly- bought fishing line into the lake for our 'gator to swallow the bobble(float to us) in under 30 secs!   Hope it hasn't done him any harm.

We've been out and about a bit.  Yesterday we drove over to Boca Grande, the island which so reminds us of Bermuda.  It has the same rich sheen- there is even an entrance toll to keep out the hoi-polloi.  The vegetation tropical with hibisus, bouganvillea, crotons, palms etc etc but nothing grows unmanicured.  The beaches are similarly perfect, no sand flies to annoy sunbathers, and the houses are almost all attractive, some with features common in Bda like lift- up shutters and Adirondack chairs.  Why, there's even a small department store reminiscent of Trimminghams (RIP) - although without the cedar panneling of course.  It's full of "resort wear" at crazy prices.

We've used the pool every day but under the full moon and stars it's really magical.

Having problems uploading pix....why do things which were simple before become unreliable when hard/software is upgraded?  Will add if am able