Trip to N.P.R. with Mrs. FC

Having completed my mission of decision making on designs, upgrades, modifications, etc., I had a day off before I hopped on the early morning flight back up to the frozen north. So normally I would have headed directly for Cedar Key, but this time I was able to tag along with Mrs. FC for sort of a family reunion.

(It's important to mention that FC was being a good son and headed over to St. Augustine to help out with his parental units and wasn't able to join us for the trip!)

It was a bit further south so I was happy to find the weather much closer to 70F then the past few days. The get together was held at Hooters, darn the luck, so we feasted on wings and I washed them down with a cool adult beverage from Pennsylvania and the day was looking good! I had the pleasure of sitting with the FC's wonderful daughters for lunch (Jr wasn't able to make it either) and we had a pretty fun time.

After lunch one of Mrs. FC's brothers took us out on a boat ride to see some of the sites around the coast. This was a nice, yet chilly, bonus to the already fun day!

Here's a few pics from the boat ride:

A shrimp boat passing us up to try to make a living


A few of the not so modest dwellings in the area

Some of the local residents

A fish out of water?

Time to head back to shore












I'm looking forward to getting down there sometime when it's a little warmer to enjoy the beautiful clear water up close and personal!

See you next time FC and Mr's FC, thanks again for everything!

Check This Out!

Well the pictures from over the holidays will have to wait for a few days. I'm a little further south at the moment checking on progress with the house and as you'll see in the next few pictures there's been quite a bit!

Views from the outside:

















And some from the inside:




Lightnin's tree, which is also a main support for the rafters! There'll be 2 more of these for rail supports on the stairs




















And just so you don't think I'm spending most of my time basking in the sun, it was 22F this morning, with frost on the windshield, although it did heat up to 60F in the afternoon. I spent the morning finalizing the design of the kitchen, picking out cabinets, drawers, flooring, sinks, faucets, etc. and the rest of the day looking at wood burning stoves and figuring out where the chimney would exit the roof and the orientation depending upon which stove we go with. It's a tough job, but someones got to do it!

With everything accomplished that was need for this trip, I'll be heading further south for a bit of R&R and hopefully some warmer weather! Then it's an early, early morning wake-up on Sunday to drive to the airport and catch the flight back north.

New Post Coming Soon!

Well December came and went without a single post from me! I have to blame it on a few things:
1) Preparation for Spc Dude, RBP, and Trey coming home for Christmas
2)Bronchitis hit me hard in the middle of the month and I didn't feel like doing anything
3)No sooner than Dude, RBP, and Trey landed and we packed up the family truckster and headed back home to KC for a few days
4) After we got back to Cincy we simply had too much fun to stop and get on the computer to blog!

Still to come will be pictures of the silliness that went on over the Christmas and New Year holidays.

Coming up after that will be some new pictures of the homestead.