Five days till Christmas ... The cactus is trying !!😄

Foreground, one of the Christmas Cactus's trying hard to bloom in time for the holiday :).

Plant life of December 17th, 2015.....

A quick look outside....

A quick look inside....

Alice and myself went to the flea/farmers market in Deland yesterday.  I snagged five orchids, some eggs, fresh corn, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, grapes, a large bag of grapefruit and lots of other stuff...all at very reasonable cost.  As an example, the orchids total cost was $21.00.....the veggies and fruit were about $2.00 a box.

Our Space Coast Sams Chapter just returned from our Christmas Camp-out at Camelot RV Park, in Malibar FL.....

This photo is from our Saturday morning community Chapter breakfast, cooked and
prepared by our Chapter officers for all members.

Our Space Coast Sams camping Chapter just returned from Camelot RV Park in Malibar FL, where we had our annual Christmas camp-out festivities.  It was a great time!

Photo's from Google Photo's here: https://goo.gl/photos/qkErzepK7smG6Gb9A

Short video clip here: https://goo.gl/photos/xx7uDVsYcNAQ4o588

We are looking to expand our membership base in 2016....visit our website at www.spacecoastsams.org!

Hard to believe it's December, and we're getting ready to head out for our Christmas campout.....

We'll be heading out Thursday to Malibar Florida (Camelot RV Park) where our Space Coast Sams will have our annual Christmas get-together.  On Saturday morning the Chapter Officers cook and serve breakfast for the group, and in the evening we have a nice catered supper with charitable raffle activities following. It's always a nice way to end the calendar year with the Chapter, and a pleasant reminder that here, in Florida, we pretty much camp twelve months of the year which is wonderful.

Snowbirds are starting to flock in :)....

Ken and Sandy Wood, our friends from CT who are wintering at our old snowbird haunt Manatee Hammock here in Titusville, dropped by yesterday evening to say hello.  They are doing well.  Late December they'll fly back to CT for Christmas then return thru April.  A few weeks ago other friends, Jerry and Jo Lambert from our old Camping Chapter, arrived at their winter digs in Clermont FL and we had a nice lunch visit with them.  A few others from our old group are on the West Coast (Jo and Dean Paradise, Alton and Marie Exley) and Mike and Pat Breen will get to Titusville after the first of the year.  Others dip in and out as the weather in the Northland deteriorates and they get sick of it.  Of course we got so sick of it we put up roots here and haven't looked back.  72 deg on the porch now, going up to the low 80's.  We can live with it!

Thanksgiving 2015 musings...

Feeling VERY thankful for the gifts we've received .... family, health, and living in the semi-tropics that we love so much in our retirement.  We're very thankful for our friends and camp-mates here, which has made our transition from CT Snowbirds to full-time Florida residents so much easier and more pleasant.   I'm thankful for the climate that lets me putsey with the plants all year long....And tomorrow we'll be thankful for the turkey with trimmings and key lime pie and our Chef son David taking care of all the food preparation.  What's not to love? :).