Dr. Beach don't know nothing!

We had a great fun Memorial Day weekend. AJ Mia and I went golfing on Saturday AM with my mom and had a great time. I mowed the lawn in the afternoon and with flag flying we were quite festive and settled in for some chicky on the grill. Sunday was a day to relax at the beach in the AM. Majorly disappointed in the rating that Dr Beach bestowed on the Fort Desoto Park Beach. Last week he rated it the number 1 beach in the country. Since it is about 30 mins from our house we thought we would check it out. We must be spoiled because this beach did not hold a candle to our local beaches. When thinking of all the beaches that we have visited in the past the closest to match this in quality was the Rang Pond Beach in New Gloucester ME. No offense meant but probably not one of the top 250 beaches in the country. We did manage to leave in time to watch some of the Indy 500 which was quite entertaining. Sunday eve we visited Patti, John and the rest of the family at their house for a great cookout of ribs and chicken. John has a gift for the southern grill and we all enjoyed the fine dining experience. Later a little dual TV with the Red Sox and NASCAR racing made for a relaxing eve. We wrapped up the day with an evening dip in the pool as the Sox put away the hated Yankees. Monday we visited St Aramand Circle. and did a little window shopping. All in all a fine weekend, leaving us rested and ready to dive into the next week. Not much else to report other than we talked to Blaine D. this weekend and plans are in the works for a rondezvous in the near future.

Bradenton news

Man O Man it has been a while. Seems like everything else. Once a habit is broken it takes a while to get back to the routine. I put off writing because there didn't seem to be much to write about. I am still trying to catch on the the concept of writing for the fun of it. The latest news is that Amelia is home for the summer from Florida Southern College. She is going to spend most of the summer at the local YMCA as a camp counselor. Adrienne has been playing a lot of golf and had an 87 in the tournament yesterday. She wraps up her junior year of high school in a couple of weeks. She's getting into the SAT ACT etc swing now and starting to look towards college. Kind of hard to believe for Bren and I, but we are learning to cope with the thought of having both girls off at college. Lately I have been helping out with my mom on getting her web page up and running. We are still workng out some kinks but take a look here. www.coastalmainescenes.com The site is devoted to photographic images from the coast of Maine. She is doing a really nice job on the page
and is having a lot of fun getting it going. As far as music goes we went to a nice outdoor cafe last eve and saw a jazz band featuring a great piano player who grew up in New Hampshire and studied at UNH. Thats about all the news for now. I will try to be more diligent in writing. Actually I'll try to be more diligent in doing things to write about.