Updated LSAVC this morning after hearing from both Anne and MAry yesterday. Did quite a bit on the IOS app. I added a menu and the about function. I also got the tap image for alternate to work well. It tells you there is an alternate and then correctly displays the credit. No pinch to zoom though. We go home tomorrow which is too bad. Now working on the updates. I got the isWiFi function to work. Next I need the download function from fc4.avsa.org to get the list of updates.
We went out to Casey Key to the FishHouse around 7 PM and found they were closed due to a private party. On the way hoome on Tamiami we decided to try the Italian Grill. It was a good choice. Service was very prompt, the prices were reasonable and the food was delicious. I ordered Eggplant Parmesan but got chicken parmesan instead. I accepted it and had a mug of Yuengling to accompany the meal. It was a nice evening, warm out as well. Came homoe and packed my suitcase.

Spent a lot of time working on the iPad today finally got forward and reverse to work in the list. The list has a max of 100 plants listed, the others have to be paged on and off the disk. We had wine and cheese in the evening then went out to the club house for rib night. We had a delightful server named Mayra. She was cute and friendly. We both had 7 oz prime rib with baked potato, cabernet, broccoli and yorkshire pudding. Very nice evening at the clubhouse. We chose to go a little later, around 6:45 and had no problems.
The property buyer wants a closing extension which we quoted a price of $450 for. Let's see how this flies.

Went out to Selby Gardens and renewed our membership. Had a lovely time in the garden. They are really maintaining the place. Must be new management. In the evening we went out to Pub night where I had the excellent stuffed cabbage which came with Kielbasi and green beans. I really liked it. A Yuengling helped to wash it down.
I booked an AirBnB today for a house on the West side of the trail near us. We'll come back in Feb for Aida.

This morning I went to the homeowners meeting to catch up with what's going on. New plants for $650 and new carpeting are in the works as well as replacement lights. In the evening after a light dinner of melted cheese on toast we went to La Boheme. Sarasota Opera outdid themselves in this production. the singers were excellent and the sets were fabulous. I can't believe how many singers were on stage for the Cafe Momus scene. The lady next to me told me about her mutual fund, the Baron fund. they have an annual conference in NYC with entertainment such as Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. We got out at 10:39 after a start time of 7:30. We drove around and couldn't find parking but ended up parking in the garage behind the Opera house.

Went out at 10 this morning to the Ringling which is free on Mondays. Enjoyed the art museum, saw an exhibit about the Sarasota School of Architecture and then treasures of the 15th century China. Libbie really was fascinated, me not so much. Tamiami was incredibly busy. One lane was closed for construction around Best Buy. Very busy. Had lunch at the Banyan Cafe at the art museum.
Tried to go see the sand castles at Siesta Key but the parking lot was full. Went out to Casey Key Fish house for dinner. I had a crab cake basket which comes with fries and slaw. Yuengling for a drink topped the meal off. It was good.

Surprisingly the internet and the TV were back on today. Verizon has this down to a science. worked on writing on the computer most of the day, also picked up some wine and cheese in lieu of lunch today. We went to the ballet at 1 PM over at AMC 12 at the mall next to Costco. Really liked the jewels by the Bolshoi. They did a fantastic job. Went out at 6 and picked up a pizza from Valentinos which we had with a glass of wine. Nice.

After breakfast and loading the car we were out the door at 7 AM. Stopped in Florence for biscuits then Baldwin for Big Mac lunch and gas. Traffic was light but it got a little crazy between Tampa and Sarasota with wild drivers. We got in at 6:30 and went over to the clubhouse for dinner. I had a beer and the chickn pasta special which was OK but not great. It was convenient to go to the clubhouse for dinner. No Internet or TV here, it's supposed to be turned back on tomorrow.

We picked up the heaters at the greenhouse as well as a lot of misc other stuff. They rode well in the trailer which was surprising considering all the weight. Reprogrammed the sprinkler for the violet watering then finished up the first 3 chapters of the surrogate story and uploaded them to ASSTR. I like the story flow. I'm going to add more. We chose not to go out to dance tonight because we were both tired and Libbie's leg hurt. Good decision since I had a lot to do with packing then updating the LSAVC website. We leave in the morning for Florida but I don't want to go. It's too nice around here and I have a lot I want to do.

Went to the greenhouse and completed the wiring task. The panel looks pretty neat, I only left the spotlight and the well pump on the panel. All else has been removed and the wires removed as well. Came home with the last bag of wire for the scrap yard. The dumpster was gone. I could see that the truck got stuck in the wet ground while trying to pull the dumpster uphill. There are lots of tire tracks in the mud including come down the hill next to the old greenhouse structure into the turnaround which is the route I assume he took to get free.
At home I picked up the piles of pine straw that Libbie collected from the driveway and spread it over the roots of the big pin oak in the back yard. I noticed that the electric fence insulator was compromised. I didn't have any more nail in insulators but I was able to repurpose one of the yellow screw on ones with a nail and a large washer. It's not great and is rigged up. I finished another chapter of my surrogate story today. I like the way the writing is going so far. I'm going to revise it all after chapter 3 and then upload. For dinner we went out to La Cocina where I had a Quesadilla La Cocina with a mug of Yuengling. After dinner I finished the Atomic Times book which I started in September. It took too long to do, the next one I hope will be better because i believe reading helps with writing and I want to improve my writing.

Went to the greenhouse at 9:30 and worked on stripping the wires from the ceiling in the garage building. Removed the 2 control panels and took them home as well along with a garbage bag full of wire. I now have 2 bags of wire in the garage at home ready to go to the scrap yard. The dumpster still wasn't picked up when i was there in the morning. Left at noon because I have a Time Warner repair guy coming. Time Warner came at 12:45 for a 1 PM appointment. The guy was nice and replaced the connector coming into the house. He also wrapped it with tape and sealed it with silicon. Nice guy, nice job. Glad it's taken care of. Went to dance at 3:30 with Robert. We bought 3 sponsorships, will probably have to buy lessons in the next few weeks. Had a very good waltz lesson. Learned how to do 3/8 waltz turns efficiently. The secret was a straight line instead of at an angle. Robert added something new, the reverse twinkle zig zag. Dinner was the other half of the loin ribs which were outstanding. Very meaty and very tasty. We had this with broccoli and a bottle of Shiraz. I finished writing the first part of my story, the surrogate. I'm a little rusty. this draft needs a little revising before I upload it to the stories site. I have ideas for several sequel parts.

In the rain I loaded the trailer with the bed parts from the attic and other misc stuff. I put this on top of the dumpster then called for a pickup. All of the clay pots are gone thanks to Craigslist. The rain finally stopped in the PM and the sun came out while I updated the Lone star website with convention pics from Marjorie. I started writing again. It's hard and I'm getting rusty. I struggled with getting started and struggled with writing the story. Hopefully this will straighten itself out with practice even though I'm the only one going to read my stories. We had the rest of the leftover Tex-Mex casserole for dinner. Yummy. The new cable modem is working really great, it hasn't crashed once since installed. The other one had serious problems and wouldn't go for more than a few minutes before crashing. Web traffic seemed to hasten the crash time. Glad it's all fixed. I studied TripAdvisor regarding Alaska and decided I can do much better than the packaged tours by pursuing our own (my) interests. I found a BnB 10 miles from the entrance to Denali that's a consideration.

Hopefully I found the fix for First Class subscriptions. The purchase date does not change after a subscription renewal. I was able to set up a test app in beta with in app building and dump the Google API variables related to the purchase. This is a relief. It's a rainy day but I went out to the GH and shoveled all the trash in the shed into garbage bags and put it into the dumpster. We heard there is a financial issue with our land closing. Not sure if the buyer has the cash. This may be too bad but so far the buyer hasn't breached the contract. Together we made tex-mex lasagna for dinner. I screwed up and put 1.5 tsp of Coriander into the mix instead of Cumin. I later added the Cumin but the Coriander is in there as well. Read a story in GQ about a guy who has fathered over 100 children, he provides his natural insemination service for free. what a racket. I'm getting a cold today.

After the morning programs of Sunday Morning I hooked up the trailer and we took the old table, chairs and other misc to the greenhouse dumpster to take advantage of it. While over there I moved the two old tires over to in back of the silo, hopefully out of sight. Once the greenhouse chores were complete I went over to Best buy and exchanged the modem. The new one works perfectly! It has not crashed all day so the other one really did have a problem. I worked on the app the rest of the day or more correctly, I worked on getting myself set up as a beta tester of a test app for in app billing. I will be getting a good handle on this problem I believe. The test app allowed me to buy a subscription which has a daily expiration date. This is great. Libbie made her fantastic pizza for dinner. This is a happy day. The Internet is working again and I'm making progress on the First Class app. Woo hoo.

It was raining this morning but I took the cover off the smoker and put some Loin back ribs into it that I purchased this morning from Kroger. I had to make a batch of Smoking gun Rib sauce. For the rub I used the Coco Loco stuff we got from Don at Rib University. It worked well, everything came off as planned throughout the day with the smoker. We had a half rack of ribs, broccoli and Rodney Strong Cabernet for dinner. Libbie made a Happy Birthday apple pie today. It was yummy as usual. Internet Service crapped out today. I called Time Warner and of course they found no trouble. I have a service appointment with Time Warner for Wednesday to fix the connector coming into the house. We went to bed with no Internet service. thhe cable modem won't stay running for more than a few minutes. As soon as I run data through it the modem crashes. I used the MyFi device in my office to read about the in app subscriptions that are not working. Glenda also has the same problem. I need to set up a test subscription on Google for app subscription testing.

Happy Birthday. Had calls from both Vicki and Arlene this morning. I also had 61 friends on facebook wish me a Happy Birthday which was nice. The Google OBI adapter is doing a nice job delivering phone service to us. It was very clear for both calls from Vicki and Arlene. Went out to the Greenhouse to finish up the loading the dumpster. We both worked incredibly hard and got all the trash disposed of. Heard from John that the subscription problem is not fixed. Need to do more debug. We went out at 6 for First Friday. It's been a while. chose to got to Nicoles first then over to Art Space. Much has changed in each studio. Next it was out to dinner at 8 PM at caffe Luna where I had the seafood combo over pasta. It was really yummy. I ordered a bottle of Rodney Strong Cabernet to accompany dinner. Libbie had the usual Salmon Farfalle. We came home quite tired and happy. No work tomorrow!

Worked on FC4A some more this morning. John is still having a problem with his subscription. It's not showing to him that he has a subscription. I did not reference the subscription variable i think. Put it down at 10:30 and went to the greenhouse alone. Libbie is with Nancy and then has quilting. I worked until 2:30 and am really sore. I lost track of the time but made good progress on the cleanup effort. Received a Cooking Light eMail with vodka sauce pasta and shrimp so I picked up the pasta and shrimp and made the recipe along with Libbie. It was delicious. I have to give this one an 8 as well. It's pretty easy to make but has a lot of steps. We had this with the leftover shiraz from last night which was just under a glass each. this was just enough.

I lost track of what day it was. Not sure why but I was surprised it was Wednesday already. Did a few hours at te greenhouse but didn't work too hard. Stripped a lot of the wires and put them into a bucket. I managed to fill a 30 gallon bucket to the top with wire. In the shed I shoveled with the new scoop the debris on the ground. Filled a garbage can with cans, styrofoam and misc trash and then put the bag into the dumpster. Went to our dance lesson at 3:30. Robert was a little late which was unusual. We concentrated on Waltz which we needed. He showed me how to reach when stepping around, also to take small back steps and large forward steps. It was a good lesson of waltz tips. Dinner was the leftover meatball muffins with more wedge potatoes and a whole bottle of Shiraz we picked up at Trader Joes on the way back from dance. Went upstairs to bed pretty early.

We went out to the greenhouse in light rain and hit it hard today. Libbie had trouble starting the fire but once we got going we burned quite a bit of the wood. I moved the back door assembly to the dumpster. This was hard and heavy work, I then concentrated on getting to the bench legs in the shed. I tore out a sheet of plywood being used as a gate to corral the wood into a stall and started moving the stuff into my cart for transport to the fire. Breaking the legs off is hard work so I decided instead to move whole leg assemblies to the fire. This created a roaring bonfire and the legs burned quickly. Left there and found out there is an issue with the FC4A program in that the in app billing crashes for John Carter. Spent some time on it after dinner and found that the check inventory API is being called twice. If it doesn't complete the first time it crashes trying to start a second instance. I fixed it so that it only runs once. Dinner tonight was a Cooking Light recipe that came in my email today. It was Meatball muffins and was a big hit for dinner. I made potato wedges to go with the meal and we each had a leftover glass of wine from Halloween night.

We ended up with alost 3 inches of rain last night and today. It's wet but not too cold. Used the time to prepare the November update for the FC4A app. I also made updates to both LSAVC and MAAVS website. LSAVC got a weather advisory due to the storms in TX and MAAVS got the rest of the pictures that Neil took I also corrected the best costume, it was Marie not Kitty who won. We went out in the pouring rain to go to the Roadhouse in Pittsboro. It was a fun night of dancing mostly Foxtrot to the 18 piece band on stage. We sat with Bill and joan and their neighbor Joan. The floor was sticky but Joan had a bottle of powder that she sprinkled on the floor and walked through. For dinner I had a Yuengling in a bottle accompanying a fried flounder sandwich with a side of Slaw.

It's a rainy day. After the morning programs I loaded up the cart and headed over to the greenhouse. We had a steady stream of visitors to pick up free pots and almost cleared them all out. I loaded the sofa into the dumpster and also cleared out all the wood from the one side of the shed. We burned all this wood in a huge bonfire. It was great that it was raining so we didn't worry too much about the roaring fire but it also meant we got soaked to our skin. Next big task remaining is to get rid of all the bench supports in the shed. There are a pile of them and they may not fit into the shed. I came home dead tired today, not sure why since I didn't do any heavy lifting. I did manage to tear apart all three workbenches we had in the building. Two of them were put into the fire and the third into the dumpster. Burning is preferable to save dumpster room. We had Libbie's pizza for dinner. She left the broiler on by accident so burned the pizza top but I think it still tasted OK. Had an FC4A inquiry from Marge Farrand. She thought a plant was not in FC4A but was in the desktop version. In reality it was in the user database in her desktop version.

Worked in the office this morning configuring the Obi200 device and initiating the transfer of the home phone to Google. So far everything is working as it's supposed to. Finally T-mobile transferred the number from Vonage to my unlocked phone. This was a 2 week struggle with many calls to support in India which was a pain in the ass. The combination of the accent, the poor connection with delay and people who are not trained very well. They always had the same message - I would get a text within 24 hours that the number was transferred. Ha! That never happened in 2 weeks. Good riddance. I'm thinking of deleting the greenhouse phone number totally. The other option is to use voip.ms and transfer it. I don't have a good price for the service. At 11:15 we left for our Wagner Marathon. I totally enjoyed the rousing music and choruses and the excellent singers of our afternoon at Tannhauser. This group of Wagnerians were fantastic. On the way home we picked up some wine and the missing ingredients to make pesto chicken which I made. We had the chicken with Broccoli and a Cabernet Sauvignon that Kroger was sampling called Paranoia. This was an award winning wine and had a nice hologram label

Out to the greenhouse this morning with the cart and chainsaw. Finished moving the 4 foot lathe fencing then decided to tackle the folded up piles of plastic tops. I used the string trimmer to clear the weeds around the tops and also around a site for a fire that Libbie is going to tend. Libbie burned a lot of the lumber from the shed while I continued filling the dumpster with the old sign that needed chainsawing and hauling to the dumpster. I put an ad on Craigslist for free pots and we had a steady stream of people coming to get the pots which was good. Went home very tired and after a lunch soup I felt sick to my stomach. Not sure what the problem is other than I went out to Kroger and picked up some Pepto Bismol and took 2 doses an hour apart. By the time of the Halloween party at the studio I was feeling a little better. Our showcase performance was in Act I and didn't go very well. I'm not sure what Libbie was up to but she wouldn't do the Zigzags after a twinkle and then at the end she decided to change sides during our ending routine. Mitzi did the cooking for the evening. We had corned beef with meatballs, wedge potatoes and some salads along with beer and wine. It was a nice evening of food and dance but I wish I felt better. We left a little early at 10 PM.

Went out to the greenhouse and opened the back of the dumpster. Used the string trimmer with a new blade to clear a path to the piled up lath fencing in the shed and started moving the stuff. I got almost all the 6 foot fencing into the dumpster. There is less of the 4 foot fencing which I'll do tomorrow. I'm not sure the dumpster is going to be big enough. It's a fill and wait see situation. This afternoon we went for a lesson before the performance tomorrow night. The lesson was a waste of time, we didn't do very much. Dinner was leftover lentil and squash soup.

It's another rainy day. The dumpster was delivered right where I wanted it. Went to Home Depot and bought some new work gloves for Libbie and I. Took the string trimmer with blade over and tried cutting some brush which worked well. Also used the chain saw to trim the bushes around the door to give us better access. Left the brush piled up since I didn't have a cart. Shut the bluebird website down this morning. That's the end of an era. Lots of comments on Facebook about the greenhouse even from Mark and Brandon. Dinner was Lentil and squash soup. This is a very tasty combination.

It's a cold, wet and generally crappy day. Neil sent the pics to my dropbox and I'm busily putting together some York pages for MAAVS. We had a highly successful dance lesson with Robert. I even taped the whole performance and it looks pretty good. We had a few flub ups but in general the whole thing is not too bad. For dinner Ii made the chicken breasts with basil pesto and mozarella which we had with peas and a bottle of Fetzer Cabernet. I didn't care for Fetzer's version of Cabernet, it tasted oxidized or not aged. Tannhauser came on during dinner, I stayed up until the end of Act II before going to bed since I was tired.