Saturday morning, had a chance to help out Roy's brother Fred.

This is Ricky and Roy. 

As we were walking around looking at different things. Fred asked us to pull out his siding door frame. It was not that bad to do. Just pulled the screws out and got a prey bar and went to town. After a couple of pulls here and there. It all happen to come out. 

As we were looking at the corner tops for the different projects. 

Had to cut a couple of them. This is Fred the one that owns this place. Hey he just bought this a couple of weeks ago. Closed and now trying to fix it up. Over all this is a nice place. Plenty of room, two/two. Plus there are windows in every room except the master bathroom. 

After wards Richie, Roy and I stopped by this Chinese restaurant, for lunch. Not bad. They even had salmon. That was really good tasting. Over all we got a lot of stuff done at Fred's new place. As this next week starts up. Roy went over on Sunday to help out. Then yesterday Rickie and Roy were over there. I would have gone, but I had other plans. On Thursday I will go over and pick up all the things he wants to have dropped off at Restore, Habitat. 

Remember this is a junkie camera. Friday I get the new one. Prayerfully it is much better. The reviews as it is. 

On Friday night I was asked to hang out with some friends.

Drove up to Vero Beach there is this place called Riverside Theatre. So I guess they do this every once and while. It is a place to get a hamburger and drinks. Sit down outside and then there is a local band that plays. This night these guys were preforming. We know the drummer, Big Frank. He is the one that has a business in the park we live in. Pressure washes homes. Hey these guys rocked. 

This be my neighbors Pat and Roy. he was eating his pretzel during the time I took this shot.Plus remember this is my new phone. camera is not to good. I ordered another phone yesterday. 

Bobby and Michelle, Bobby is Roy's older brother. 

They even had a ice skating rink, for the children. It really was like a piece of plastic. Then the kids had to put on these special skates. They sure look like they were have some fun. 

The place filled up pretty good. We got there a little before 6 pm. For being free and good music. It was worth the trip up. 

I forgot there is a dance area too. Maybe next time? 

On Friday morning we had our Christmas get together.

As I have been part of a class on stretching. Well every Christmas time they have a little get together. 

We gather at the club house. Beautiful Christmas tree. 

As we were waiting around for the rest of the crew. We talked and just enjoy hearing the ladies talk about how long they have been part of the class and just nice stories. 

I was asked to go over to the ball room and pick up some bottles of juice. As I was walking through I saw line dancing going on. Hey there are always something going on here at this place. 

It really is a friendly and joyfully folks. 

Mean while that morning I hooked up my new phone. I found out while talking with one of the ladies there. She wanted to know if I could come over and look at something she would like to be build. So I gave her my number. I asked if she would call me and this way I have her number too. Well she tried and it would not go though. Okay my new phone is not working? I left early and got on line to get it corrected. After talking with a couple of folks on line from Tracfone. We got it all fixed. But I am not to keen on the pictures. So today I will be trading this phone in for another one. This as 2 MP for photos. I guess I need ad least 5 MP? 

I was given a challenge a couple of days ago.

You can see what parts I had to work with. Well as there was no paper work on this. I thinking, just look at the box and you can figure this out? 

Noticing that some of the hardware was missing. 

Then some damage.

I put together the bottom piece. Thinking I did pretty good, mickey mousing it. But I got it over to my friends' home. She asked let us try to put the rest together. I thinking wow this is going to look pretty bad. She told me that it was going into a closet. No one will ever see it. Okay you can see it is all together and she is happy. 

Having trouble with my Moose.

My neighbor Brenda's boy friend was outside a couple of days ago. I was watching him with this moose. Thinking, what is wrong with you big buddy there? Jon said,he keeps on falling over. Jon packed him up a in the box and said, I guess he garbage now? I asked him I could try. 

I hooked him up to the power. Thinking maybe a hair blower would help him stand better? That didn't work. So I had some water proofing spray. Thinking maybe the seams need a little help. Sorry to say, poor big guy, I can not help him. 

I saw Jon yesterday and told him sorry. He said just throw him in the garbage. So I got a couple of items out of him. The string of lights and a blower. Maybe I can use this on something else? Hey it works and doesn't take up much space. 

I am becoming my neighbor years ago. He saved everything. Keep a eye on me. 

Okay, what am I doing with a golf cart?

This belongs to a my neighbor's (Roy) brother, Bobby. He has had many people look at the light problem. What happens is while you are driving at night time, the lights dim when you push down on the accelerator. Which this is battery operator. 

I thinking, how hard can this be? It is 12 volt lights and that is it? Well as I open up the battery compartment. I see wires hanging all over the place. Okay not that big of a job? 

Well it tuned out, it was a bigger job than I thought. Like I tell anyone about fixing things. I am not a master of no skill, but I will give it a shot. 

Well after taking the lights out and redoing the wires. It still dims down. Roy stopped by to see how it was going.. We went on line with You Tube, plus just put in dims light on club golf cart. It gave us some ideas. But it didn't solve the problem. Mean while, I was putting the lights back in, I dropped one of the lens.

 Guess what, it broke. Roy and I climbed into my truck and took a ride over to this golf cart dealer. I showed him the lens, he laughed. He said this is pretty old. Give me a minute. He came back with a used one. Handed it to me. How much, I asked. Don't worry about it. No cost. 

Well I gave it a shot and that is all I can do.  Bobby stopped by and asked how it went? 

I told him what I did and he said you tried. 

Hey I made a couple of bucks, 

Got a great deal on Thanksgiving evening. Thinking MAYBE NOT?

This is just one of the items I got on Thanksgiving evening. This sound bar only cost me $29.00. Now thinking how hard can this be to hook up? 

I bought these cables, $3.98. Thinking this is the cat's meow. 

This should work great? 

I brought them back home and hooked the two wire up. One side into the TV. The other side in the sound bar. I tried and tried, thinking maybe I did something wrong? It just would not work. Now I am thinking what is the problem? 

I stopped at Walmart and saw a young guy there in the camera department. Okay I am doing something wrong and I need some advice. I explained to him what I did and why doesn't it work? 

He asked me if I plugged the wires into the out put side of the TV or input side? Thinking now, WOW, that is IT? I am plugging into the output side, where you would use a DVD player. Wow, what a fool I have been? Okay what do I need? the young man walked over and showed me. Still a $3.98 item.  

I plugged them in and guess what? IT WORKS NOW. So if you get a sound bar for Christmas, Now you know what to buy. 

When you think of it, wow how can a input work on output sound? 

Praise the Lord, I am not loosing my mine. 

Trying out a new breakfast place. Brooklyn's, I think that is what it is called.

Roy loves to drive around and try new places. He told me about this place about a week or so. We took a drive and was not disappointed at all. 

Very friendly and just a nice place. The bagels were delicious. Their coffee was really good too. Over all the prices were a little on the high side. But I will be back. 

Now off for a ride. Roy loves going down to the Jetty on Hutchinson Island. 

These pelicans are always sitting here. Right across there is a cleaning station for cleaning your fish after you caught them. The white ones are so beautiful. 

There are always folks down here fishing. Maybe down the road I will go out and buy a fishing pole +. Not sure if I have the patience to sit there and WAIT. 

As we drove by this pavilion. I think of the family times we had down on, Spanish River Park in Boca Raton. As my family would come on down of over to visit. We would get a pavilion and have a wonderful day at the beach. 

As Thanksgiving has passed, I know myself how I miss my family very much.

 But one day I will see them again. 

On Friday evening I had a wonderful visit.

On thanksgiving I got  text, asking if I would like to go have dinner with a couple of my old friends? Jeremy and his wife, Rachel. He was telling me that they were up in the Orlando area and driving back home on Friday night. 

They were on the turnpike. Thinking where would be a good place to eat at? I was told a little while back from a coupe that lives in the park here, That Cowboys has some good ribs. 

Okay let us all meet there at Cowboys. 

Hey these two are a neat couple. Rachel is getting ready to go to school for becoming a nurse. As we sat and tried to get some what caught up on all that has been happening. Jeremy was telling me how much it cost to go to school to become a nurse. I was little surprised, ($3000.00+) 

Plus he gave me the load down on what is happening at Calvary FT. Some people are moving on to better things and that is what a growing church does. I remember at different staff meetings. Our pastor would say things like this. We each and everyone of us have seasons and sometimes they are long ones and some short. 

It really was fun to just hang out a little while. 

I have never had alligator for a shack? It was not bad. It tasted like chicken.

 Well they left to drive back to Pompano. Myself I stopped at Home Depot and checked out the Christmas displays. They really did I nice job on that. 

As the Christmas Season has started, please remember what it is all about Jesus Christ. Not the displays or the gifts. He came to this world so we could have salvation. 

Yes Thanksgiving has come and gone, but.

Well on Thanksgiving morning. I got up early and went to McDonald's for breakfast. Then came back and said my good byes to Bonita. As I was driving home I saw the sun and I just thought that was really beautiful. There was very little traffic traveling east on 60. 

I got home and was pleasantly surprise to see Thanksgiving Parade on, live. I watched that for a little while. Then did some house cleaning. 

Around 2:30pm I went over to Bobby and Michelle's home for a Thanksgiving dinner. There was Michelle (left) then Pat and Roy and then Bobby. We sat down and a very wonderful dinner and just hung out for a couple of hours. Watched a little football. It sure is fun hanging out with these guys. They always have something to talk about. 

Had our dessert and I was on my way to meet a friend to go do the Early Black Friday at 6 pm at Walmart. 

We got there and really was not sure what to do. So we walked around a little and asked a couple of the workers there, what is needed to get some great deal. Found out we had around 30 minutes to wait. So I stood in line and just had some nice people around us. It really looked like it was going to be a crazy time at 6 pm. But as we stood in line. People were some what respectful. 

You can see here, this guy has three (3) TV. We got a couple of items we were wanting. 

Now the problem is, HOW DO YOU CHECK OUT? That took a long wait. But as we were standing at the cashier's.  we saw a couple of more items we thought about getting. I picked up a phone to buy, While in line I read what I was getting. Not really what I wanted. So I put it down along the cashier's roll. Then saw a tablet. Hey I need that. So I got that too. 

We stopped at Starbucks and had a coffee, then part our ways. 

I got up the next morning, thinking WHY did I buy this tablet? I will be taking it back today. 

I really hope and pray you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and looking forward in seeing what Santa is bring to me for Christmas. 

I really hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

I left my home around 7 am on Wednesday and got to Bonita's around 9 am. We sat around and got a little caught up. Then Greg pulled in around 11 am. 

Around 12 noon. Greg and took a ride to go get our COOKED DINNER. 

As we were driving along.

You might not see what I saw here? There were two people outside of McDonald's dressed up as a Big Mac and a box of Fries. It really caught my eye. I even blew my horn to support them. My cousin Greg thinks I am little crazy already.

 So as we were driving to Publix to pick up our Thanksgiving COOKED Dinner.. I was asking the young lady there, when did they cook our meal? I asked, yesterday or was it this morning? She said she was not sure? So the guy came out with our large box of food. I asked him about when did they cook this? He said Buterball cooked it. Now myself. I was thinking, they told us to pick it up at 11:45am. Thinking this is just getting out of the oven and we should be all set. The guy open the box and showed us, all we got. I thinking great. I am hungry. 

Open the box up again at Bonita's home and picked up the turkey. IT WA FROZEN. Okay reading the label. It was telling us to put the turkey in the refreg for two days to thaw. Okay I am wanting my dinner at 2pm today? 

I call Publix and after being switched to a couple of different people on the phone. I got the manger. He said no problem, just bring it back and they will give us a thawed one. Okay I guess we really don't have to much of a choice? Bonita and I went in and went tot he back and picked up the NEW turkey. Bonita asked, is it frozen? I dropped it on the floor and it bounced. I went up front and talked to the store manger. Asking him how can I have dinner today? he said, go home and run HOT WATER over is for about two (2) hours. 

Walking away, thinking I am not very happy now. Got back to Bonita's house and put it in the sink. Changed the ran hot water over it. Let it set in hot water. Changed the water a couple of times. It is thawed enough? Hopfully. Put it in the oven for two hours and it was okay. 

Okay dinner is served. It was not bad. Next time, we will buy a frozen turkey. I will let it thaw out in a couple of days. Then make the rest of the meal. The fittings were, really not that good. 

But we enjoyed it and laughed afterwards. I spent the night and drove back home on Thursday morning.