We left the house at 8:30 to drop Libbie's car off for an oil change. Our appointment is for 8:45. We're also getting a tire rotation, recall and state inspection done. It's a rainy day. I took half the bows down in house 1 and noticed one of the tanks were removed by Ferrelgas. I hope they take the others. We had Salmon and butternut squash for dinner with Shiraz. We went to dance party tonight. Fun.

I did the light eating thing today which was good for my health. I continued to scan pictures from Libbie's greenhouse albums. I want to create an album while I'm in Florida. I also started putting the finishing touches on the website ready for the committee to review tonight. Went over to Sams place on Dowling Rd and looked at the grading job. It's very nice! Dinner was chicken fingers and salad. After dinner we went to Foxtrot Foundations class taught by Robert. The class was worthwhile. When I got back there were many corrections to be made on the website. I made almost all of them before going to bed. Downloaded the new Nicholas Sparks book "The Longest Road" from the newsgroups today.

I stayed inside most of the day working on the web stuff. We're close to launch and I'm doing stuff from the to-do list. Dinner was pulled chicken with Trader Joes BBQ sauce. Pretty good. I scanned quite a few pictures of the early greenhouse days.

Did the usual grocery shopping but early then did web work. LEft at 11 for the greenhouse where I finished tearing up house 2 fan wall and then did house 1 fan wall. That side of the greenhouse is wall free and done. Dinner was spaghetti with hot peppers and parmesan because we don't have pizza cheese.

Went to the greenhouse later after a morning of home work and web work. I took down house 1 fan and took down house 2 fan wall. I was too tired to cut it up so I came home. Dinner was tuna sandwiches. Had a long long long conversation with Sue Hoffmann about MAAVS and the convention. She wants me to be Master of Ceremonies and Vice President.

Where does time go? This morning I did a little web work then listed our carpet on craigslist and the old GPS on ebay. I'm also doing maintenance on Traviata - catching up the journal and doing a backup. That new disk drive appears to be corrupt or dead which is not a good sign. Went to the greenhouse at 1:30. I listed the old backporch carpet on Craigslist. Received 5 replies, Libbie waiting for Wendy, the first one. I also listed the old GPS on eBay. Hopefully it sells at $25. At the greenhouse I used the Sawzall with a hacksaw blade and easily cut all the dead men posts down. Wow, I wish I bought this tool 2 years ago for the home greenhouse. I actually cut those posts with a manual hacksaw. Came home very tired and left over BBQ with watermelon for lunch. Libbie made her wonderful pizza for dinner. I worked on the AVSA website.

We left for the greenhouse at 9 and were very surprised to see everyone there working away when we arrived at 9:10. Bob and Sam brought 6 guys with them. they took all the wood then disassembled the three greenhouses. I removed the house 2 fan, we only have house 1 fan left. Bob bought everyone subs at Jersey Mikes. Libbie and I each ate a whole sub which was excellent. We got home pretty tired. In the evening I ran out to Home Depot for hack saw blades for the Sawzall to cut the columns and dead men pipes. Dinner was Shiraz, ribs, broccoli and Bluebonnet Chocolate Peanut butter ice cream. I didn't do any web work today.

Went over to the greenhouse today and took the ridge pole down in house 1. It's a little chilly today, high only in the low 80s with a slight breeze. I wore long pants. We had a dinner of BBQ on a bun then went to the dance party where we got to practice our Nightclub 2 step. We stayed until 9:30. Tonight Carolina Ballroom broke the evening up with showcase demos of some of the competitors going to Charlotte for ballroom competition.

Today was website work and no greenhouse trip. I tried working off the list of to-do items for the avsa website. The main website was off line all week and was finally restored to a 2011 level. This makes the backup strategy that Winston talked about a bunch of crap. The best backup they have is 2 years ago???? This was a light eating day so we had salmon and salad for dinner.

We both did the greenhouse this morning. I spent some time with the sawzall cutting up the house 3 fan housing for a dump trip. We ended up doing 2 dump trips which included scrap wood and the plastic tops. In the PM we went to our dance lesson. Today we practiced turns in waltz. Dinner was the last of the buffet leftovers.

I went out this morning to Kroger and bought our groceries as well as turkey, cheese, slaw and buns for Violet club. The meeting went well, Martha Cranford came to our meeting for the first time. For a program we used the Convention DVD which came yesterday. I continued working on the web site. There is a lot of little cleanup items that need to be done. Dinner was the buffet leftovers.

I stayed home today and washed the inside of the skylights. Next I painted the step down to the porch and also installed the shoe moulding under the towel rack next to the sink. Another busy day!!!
I went over to Kroger and picked up the ingredients to make a Taco salad. This is corn, beans and lettuce with spices and Chipotle to make a nice dinner meal. From Cooking light magazine.

After the CBS Sunday show I went out on the roof with a batch of DIY Window wash and the tools and washed the skylights. It has been a few years since they were last done. Next was to mix up a fresh batch of DIY Windows Wash and do the inside of the sliding doors. Took a trip to Home Depot and bought a 20 foot brush handle and a new brush for the outside of the glass doors. Finished the outside doors with the new tools which worked very well. Having two extension poles, one for the brush and one for the squeegee make a huge difference. I also went over to the greenhouse today and moved the big fan under cover and picked up all the bow extension pieces. Libbie gave me a #4 box which worked well. I counted out 100 in the box. This was pretty tiring today and I still wanted to clean the skylights inside and paint the step. Libbie made her excellent pizza which we also had with Bluebell Moolicious as desert.

We both went to the greenhouse at 9 because Sam was going to meet us then. He actually came around 10. Libbie worked on the house 1 top while I worked on taking down the house 3 fan wall. Sam and Vermin took down all the bows in houses 2 and 3. The gutters are now ready to come down. We skipped Mitzi's party tonight and instead stayed home with Chinese takeout and Shiraz. Libbie went out and bought a half gallon of Bluebell Moolicious ice cream.

This morning we went out later to the greenhouse and surprisingly, Sam was there. He was loading bench tops and 2x4's into the big truck. We're not sure if this is Paul's truck or not. I worked on taking the fan out of the wood housing. It's almost out but I didn't finish the job. I left there pretty tired. We came home and rested up for dance tonight. We had a dinner of chicken and Briyani then left for the 8 PM dance party. We're not bad at the Rhumba, need some help with the waltz. We stayed until the last dance, a cha-cha which we didn't do.

The grout and cleanup finished this morning. Libbie is not happy with how much grout remains on the floor. I think it's OK. We went out and bought 3 doormats and a new room center woven mat. The room looks really good. I cleaned one window in front of the kitchen eating area. Lots of windows need cleaning, the porch overall is dusty. I also caulked the corner bead along the floor. This needs a touchup painting. Dinner was salad and salmon since this is a light eating day.

We had our normal breakfast this morning then we started clearing the porch. I had to run to the greenhouse to get the hand truck to move the Ficus Tree. When I came back Juan was already tearing up the tiles on the back porch. We struggled and moved the tree, he stopped to help us for a few minutes. Throughout the day they tore up tiles, hauled them outside and prepped the floor. We left for dance at 3:15 with Robert. The lesson was great, we did more Rhumba with cross break turns, fifth position breaks, and slow turns. We also did some Foxtrot and nuances with our frame. It was a good lesson. We took the directions for Mitzi's birthday party on Saturday night. Dinner was spaghetti with pepper and basil in the tomato sauce. Yummy. I got the commercial section done on the website.

I stayed inside working on the AVSA website. We spent the morning cleaning up the place, disconnecting things for the carpet installers and generally getting ready to leave. We had a lunch of peanut butter sandwixches and left the condo at 1. We had some light rain on the way to the airport. When we checked in they said the Raleigh flight was 15 minutes late but at the gate they announced we were going to have an on time departure of 3:50. We boarded but the plane just sat there for 15 minutes before we departed. The flight was pretty bumpy and totally full. I read the Road to Grace by Evans and am really enjoying it. We got in at 5:30 and after collecting our checked bag we went to the Park N Relax Bus which was waiting. This was good luck. All went well on the way home. We ended up going to La Cocina for dinner. I had a Margarita and a Quesadilla La Cocina which was yummy as usual. Afterwards we did a Kroger grocery run. A very good day.

This was a productive day. I got a lot of work done on the website. For lunch we went out to the clubhouse and split a basket of ribs with sweet potato fries and a Yuengling. After that I was ready for a nap. Libbie went for a swim and I brought my tablet out to read. We met a couple from building 1 who live outside of Pittsburgh. I'm now on the road to grace, the third in the Evans "Walk" series. Dinner was a Publix shish kabob which was pretty good. It was our first time grilling on the poolside grill at our condo. We go home tomorrow :) After dinner we went out to Publix and picked up a Ben and Jerrys pint of "Triple Threat Chocolate" or something like that.

Did the morning routine but we ran out of cereal. I ran over to Publix for Libbie's breakfast and also picked up 4 donuts and the newspaper. It rained on and off most of the morning but I got a lot done on the AVSA website. In the afternoon we took a nice walk then Libbie went for a swim in the pool while I read the paper out there and admired a girl in a brief bikini with tiny bottoms. Nice.

For dinner we ordered a large pizza from Valentinos on Clark. We like their pizza.

Last day of the month. We stopped into Lowes and paid fo the carpeting. They accepted the 10% off coupon from Home Depot. Price was around $2100, way lower than I ghought it would be. Next stop was Selby for a walk around then a driveby of Siesta Key with a stop at Davidson Drugs for tee shirts that Libbie likes. We picked up more wine and cheese in Publix then went home. I did a lot of Tablet reading before we went out for dinner at Bangkok Thai. We had the sampler plate with Merlot then two orders of Pad Thai. We always enjoy this restaurant.

The Verizon Jetpack is working exceedingly well for me on 4G. We have a good strong signal and speed is great. The TV is shut off by Comcast so I tried the antenna input and did a scan. Surprisingly we have very good digital signals from the local channels. We were abld to watch GMA this morning. We went out to Publix and bought bread and peanut butter for lunch. We also needed a new alarm clock because the one in the condo master bedroom quit. We did a short walk but stayed near home because of the threat of rain. We left at 6 for disco night. They served hot horsdeouvres with our wine then we had the dinner buffet. I had rice, short ribs and salmon. Very nice buffet with a chocolate tiramisu for desert. We stayed till the end at 10. The last hour was best because half the crowd went home and they didn't do disco music. Two woman complimented our dancing and said we were pretty good. The highlight of our night was Miss Florida 1990 who actually had a pretty good voice.

We left home at 5:30 for our 7:30 flight. Everything went smoothly but we barely had a few bites of our breakfast sandwich when they started boarding the plane. The sandwich costed $8.39 plus $2 each for coffee. We boarded and took a seat behind the wing which Lib informed me wasn't great. Even worse a 400 pound woman sat between us and took up a large portion of each of our seats.
Our plane pulled away from the jetway but had to return because a light came on for the number 2 engine. We waited 10 minutes while maintenance checked it out and we were cleared. The flight was very smooth. I used the tablet to track the flight and to read the Richard Paul Evans book "The Walk". Our hertz rental car is a corolla with 35,000 miles on it and pretty beat up with nicks, scratches and a back seat falling out. When I got to Sarasota I found I forgot my gate card. Talked our way in and bought a new card at the office for $10. We had lunch at the clubhouse consisting of a salmon burger that we split and a Yuengling. Very nice. The condo looks great. We went to Lowes and picked out carpeting and arranged for a measurer to come out this weekend. We went back at 6 for ribs, I had the prime rib and a glass of wine. My ear is stuffed up from the flight and I'm having trouble swallowing. The Lowes guy called and will come tomorrow to measure around noon.

This is a full day. At 7:25 I checked into our flight tomorrow on Southwest. We got A60 and B01. I finished moving the blocks off the back porch then went into the side yard and moved all the blocks under the side deck. The deck is in pretty bad shape and is probably a target for a replacement this winter. I still want to also replace the side sliding door and the one window. Next I removed the water line, drain pipe and power for the Koi pond. The copper water pipe had to be cut under the sink and a cap soldered on. This went well, the torch worked fine and the torch cylinder had gas in it. I went over to Verizon and bought a JetPack which is a WiFi hotspot that will work on the 4G network. Net cost is $20 but I committed to a 2 year contract @ $50 per month. I can suspend it at will. I'll see how this works. We had a good lesson with Robert at 3:30. We learned cross breaks in the Rhumba as well as 180 degree turns. After dance we bought some ingredients for the Taco salad again. It was delicious yesterday.

No greenhouse today. I began stripping the backporch. Home Depot called and gave us an installation date of Sept 4. I took apart the gas piping and put a cap on where the line used to come up to the porch heater. For now the heater is in the shed. I started moving bricks out to the side deck for stacking in the woods. There's a lot of bricks there. Libbie vacuumed the floor and started moving plants. We made short order of the back porch moving. One more day and we will be ready for construction of the new tile to begin. For dinner I made a Chipotle taco salad which was sour cream and chipotle peppers mixed with chili and cumin and veggies for a yummy salad. We topped it with chicken tenders grilled on the BBQ. Yummy.