Reflecting on our condition...just a little over a year after our relocation from CT to Florida.....

We “closed” on our Titusville town home on April 20^th, 2012 (just a bit over a year ago) and since then….wow!  The world has turned upside down and sideways for us, in a good way.  Since that date we’ve prepared and sold our home in Preston, sold all three cars, set up our daughter here in our town home (she transferred with her employer to Merritt Island across the Indian River).  We’ve joined a wonderful new camping chapter (Space Coast Sams), have joined the Board of our Homeowners Association and have set up web sites for the Association and the Good Sam camping chapter.  Our Florida room indoor plants are thriving as are our outside border plantings to include a lemon and grapefruit.  Our friends from Seaport Sams “winter” here and we visit with them and really enjoy catching up with them and their news of Connecticut.  Today I had my first “local” dental appointment, with a dentist referred by a Titusville transplant from CT who had formally belonged to our CT Good Sam Chapter.  This marks something,  I don’t know what, as we’d already hooked up with a local medical GP, cardiology and the Veterans Administration in Viera.  Tony and his good friend Alissa have flown in to visit, and David will fly in a few weeks for a brief vacation.  Since the kids are coming here to visit, I think we’ll stick around here and camp locally and learn and see more about Florida.  Every day when I wake up and walk through our neighborhood with Kincaid I feel guilty…don’t know WHAT we did do deserve this but we’re VERY happy here with our new life.  If you’ve followed me on Facebook you’ve seen me gushing on the local theater offerings and how much we’re enjoying them.  Preston was nice….but Titusville is where our heart is, and we’re blessed for having found it.

Click for my current (April 30, 2013) Favorite YouTube Playlist.

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Our Space Coast Sams Chapter 10 participated in the Spring Samboree for the Florida Good Sam Club on the weekend of April 20th.  Click th

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e link above to view a YouTube video from this event.

bookbliss.com: Wally Lamb - We Are Water

Click the title to see a video on the upcoming  "We Are Water" by Wally Lamb.

BEA In Your Space - Wally Lamb (Part 1)

Wally Lamb posted this to Facebook....he's one of my favorite authors and thought I'd re-post the link to my blog.

 We went to the Wilderness RV Park in Silver Springs Fl the weekend of March 7th-10th.  Here are some snaps from this event we enjoyed with the Space Coast Sams Chapter 10 Good Sam Club.

Blessings:

The things I'm thankful for, right now, on March 4th, 2013:

My wife of 45 years Alice, for putting up with my sorry ass....

Murray Boultier for brow-beating me into going to the Veterans Administration, which enabled me to obtain financial and medical assistance for a long ago tour of duty...

Our wonderful kids, who understood when we needed to move South and get away from the cold and ice and snow, and move on in another direction in our lives...

Our friends from that other life who have meant so much to us, and continue to be called friends....even though distance is great and contacts far between...

Every friend, every relative who are a part of who we are and our history, is appreciated.  Both Alice and myself feel truy blessed, and it would not be right to not say thank you.

Bob and Alice