Weekend Recap on Monday, October 17....

The weekend has put us past the halfway mark in October. Where does the time go?!!

We had a good weekend.  I already mentioned lunch with my coworkers on Thursday.  Friday I got together with Cindee and Shirley for lunch at our favorite Chinese restaurant, Peking House.  They were really crowded and the waitstaff was busy, so I didn't ask them to take a picture of us.  I did get a shot of the restaurant as I waited at a traffic light, headed back to work. You may recall that Cindee is my friend with Parkinson's Disease.  She had the electrodes and pacemaker done a couple of months ago and it worked great for her, then the pacemaker stopped working. She had another surgery to replace it a couple of weeks ago.  It is working great and she feels really good!!  Praise God!

Right next to Peking House is this dress shop.  We always stop as we walk to the parking lot, to comment on the "dresses".  I'm not sure who their customers are, but these dresses all look like they belong on the street corner.  Young women should be ashamed to go out in public in these things!  Oh my goodness!!  Skin tight and very revealing. I guess in this sometimes less than moral very liberal culture we find ourselves in, I should not be shocked.

We had an artist talk at the Museum Friday evening that Joe and I were planning to attend, but neither of us felt like going back out after I got home.  Earlier in the day, our gift shop had a "trunk show" with a local jewelry artist (from Orlando).  I went down after she got her merchandise set out to look and really wasn't feeling it.  Her things are kind of clunky for my taste. She uses organic matter and somehow gets it electro-coated with copper.  A few  pieces were nice, but most of the necklaces were over $300. I'll be interested to hear if she sold anything to our patrons/visitors.

Saturday, we wanted to go to the Farmer's Market and then walk through the classic car show that was happening all over our downtown area.  Many of the streets were closed off for it.  We had to park a couple of blocks from the Farmer's Market, which made it a long way to the first part of the car show.  We picked up tomatoes, green peppers. and some cucumbers then looked ahead at the crowds. We decided my knees would not make it back to the car if we ventured closer to the car show.  Joe wasn't as disappointed as I was to miss seeing the cars. I really enjoy classic cars.  My favorite is the 1956 Thunderbird - turquoise (picture from the internet).  If I ever win the big lottery, this baby will be my ride!!  LOL

Here are some shots of the Farmer's Market and then of the crowds for the car show....

I love these Adirondack chairs!

And here are shots of the crowds at the car show....

The Mustang corner.....

If you click the photos to enlarge them, you can see more detail of the crowds in the distance.

Our newspaper yesterday morning had a big article on it....

Lakeland has a Zombie Fest every year too.  It was at the airport this year because the car show took over downtown.  We have never gone or participated, but the younger set really gets involved.  It's a little too macabre for my taste....(from our newspaper)

Yesterday, we decided to go see a movie. Haven't done that in a few months.  It was a toss up between Sully and The Accountant.  We picked The Accountant and were very happy with our choice. It's a really good movie.  It won't be for everyone.  It is violent and has some bad language (though not as bad as some) and some very interesting twists and turns.  The only thing really bad was two couples sitting in the row behind us who talked out loud to each other through the entire movie, commenting on each little thing.  One of them left their phone on and it rang twice. Very distracting and rude. They are old enough to know better...looked like they were in their 50s.  What is wrong with people?

When we returned home, I kept the laundry going.  We had leftovers for dinner, which made that really easy.  Saturday evening I made a cabbage and smoked sausage dish that we both really like and there was enough for Sunday (along with leftover pizza from Friday night).

HERE is the link for the cabbage and smoked sausage recipe.  It is really good!

That was my weekend. Hope you had a good one too!  Thanks for your visit!  Peace & hugs.