Ft. Myers, FL report

But first the baseball report:  Charlie at the Tigers' field in Lakeland last Sunday.  Then he attended a Phillies' game in Clearwater, and a Yankees' game in Tampa.  We both went to a Pirates' game in Bradenton, where we were called out of game, by name, and told it is illegal to leave a dog in a closed car, even in the shade and even with the windows cracked open, so sign to accept the ticket, and move OUT.
Charlie replete with Stone crab claws looking out at the beach near St.Pete Beach.
The "pet friendly" beach along the causeway to Sanibel Island, where C walked Zeke this morning while I was sewing in the motel room in Ft. Myers.
Here I am knitting in the shade of a palm tree at Ralph Bunche Beach.  This beach was the first and only beach in this county designated (in 1949) for blacks until the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  

The blocks I made today for the Spoolspinners' mystery.  Since we can't leave Zeke in the motel room alone [motels' rules], and we can't leave him in the car alone [Florida rules], I stayed home with Zeke, and Charlie gave our second ticket away at the ballpark.  I was glad to get a lot done and also watched a little of So.FL and NC basketball game as well as the poor performance of our Michigan State Spartans. 

 

Tomorrow across to the East Coast.

Sara

Gratitudes:

Race situation is better than in 1949!

Lovely visit with the Rahns on Sanibel

No longer sunburned

Working hard in Florida

The line-up for the Cardinals-Astros game. Wow, Albert Pujols actually played for the first half of the game.

So here is my motel room work station. They intend it for a desk and computer, but the Featherweight machine fits it well, and the rounded end holds a cutting mat and rotary cutter.

And above that are two of the 12" blocks I made in this set-up while Charlie was doing the laundry or going to another ball game.  I am working toward more "Wonki-ness" in the blocks as I go along.  The sample blocks, made to get the sizes right, were fairly regular until I got to the smaller sizes.  Now I am cutting more strangeness into them as I go along.  I also need to make a total of six 9" blocks before the Bee meets in March, so that is my next task--tho I'm staying in Florida and not going back to Michigan for that meeting!

Tonight I have packed everything up in preparation for another move tomorrow.  We will spend one night in Bradenton and see a Pirates game.  Then on to Ft. Myers for three nights, so I can get the machine out again there.

Sara

Gratitudes:

Pet friendly beach meant that Zeke could come with us

Dolphin was fishing just off the beach

Martha helped me with computer problems