It figures

My life always gets more crazy when the hubby leaves town for work. Now he is gone for 2 wks..ive got football practice and first game for my son. Sat. games for lexi to do her dance thing and 3 nites a week practice. Then yesterday my car starts starting funny and actine weird. And both kids are sick.....can u believe my luck?? I thought I would share a couple of pics of the little sickos.

Pine Island Community

The variety of neat people you meet here is amazing. When I try to describe Pine Islanders to people I say...There alot of artist,old hippies,and fishermen of many kinds. Quite a few famous authors,sculpters, and artist call Pine Island home.Most people who know me know I read alot and love a good murder mystery. Well my father turned me onto a writer Randy W White who writes his Doc Ford books. Well Randy White himself is a Bokeelia resident and has written a few books that mention the island. The owner of a local art store Peggy McTeague of Wildchild Gallery who designs include metal work.

Pine Island

let me first tell you about the island itself and then my own history with it. Pine Island is the largest barries island on florida's west coast at 13 miles long. there are three small villages on the island...matlacha the funky artsy fishing village, st james city at the southern tip which looks across san carlos bay at sanibl and captive.then we have bokeelia at the north end by far the smallest of the three with the tip jetting out almost into charlotte harbour.the center of the 13 mile isalnd is called "the center" image that. the entire island is more like "real florida" and any other in our area because so much of this island is protected land. we also have miles of palm tree farms, mango farms, and nurseys.

My history started when my grandparents bought a vacation home in st james city when i was oh say 4...so 1976ish. we spent many a weekend out here with them yard saling on saturdays, fishing, and church on sunday. My parents moved out here in 1980 and we lived here until their divorce a few yrs later. I learned to ride a bike on one main road out here...learned to fish, sine for bait, catch crabs, and played on the old indian burial grounds. they made huge shell mounds on gravesites and we played in them not knowing any better.

contd. next week

Not so good at Blogging anymore

Since i really need to work on my blogging skills ( once a week, bad) I going to blog one day about my boring lamo life and then one day about the neat island I work on.
So Ive been sick I have bronchitis pretty bad and have felt like complete crap for a week. The kids are loving school the first week was easy and this week so far so good. Troy is kicking butt and taking name on the Freshman football team. He isnt the biggest kid out there but I think he has the most heart. First game is Sept. 6th.... Lexi is dancing her heart out each nite we finally went down to 3 nites a week instead of 5 YEAH. Her first game is this Saturday. The only bad things about her games is they start at 7:00 but she has to be there at 3 to practice the routines. Makes for a really hot day here in FL its been in the high 90's and raining. So that is my life...tomorrow the beautiful artsy island I work on.

# yrs ago today...Hurrican Charley

No one in Lee and Charlotte county will ever forget what they were doing on this day in 2004. Hurricane Charley was supposed to have landfall near Tampa more than 100 miles north and we were boared up, supplies ready for some 40 mph and alot of rain. What we got was a direct hit on Bokeelia and went thru NW Cape Coral and up into Punta Gorda who by far fared the worse. A CAT 3 hurricane carried 100mph+winds, torandos, hail and RAIN .. nothing we had ever experieced in my lifetime. Alot of lessions were learned...you can never be too prepared..generator is a must, ice is a much sought after thing, and PRAY for the best.

I won something

Check out what i won...the amzing and talented Tammy Kay made it at the most recent CHA. She is on marah johnson design team with Creative Imaginations. I read her blog daily and she has the most adorable kids and amazing talent in scrapbooking.

TGIF

Wow its been a week....well lil troy's knee will beokay. He has some strange sports related thing that boils down to his knee is stressed. Dr cleared him for football and gave him so things to do when it flares up and hurts. Sooo we had out Freshman football meeting for parents to go over everything and its so surreal being there at my old high school thinking my son is now going to be roaming the same halls. I feel old...
On the Lexi front she is kicking butt and taking names at Dance. the head coach told me last night she was very impressed with her and she was better than alot of her Advanced dancers that have been doing it awhile..Yeah go LEXI!
I think im gonna get some scrappin done tomorrow and maybe late tonight after church is i can stay up.