I haven’t been on here to post in a couple of weeks because Susie and I went to Florida to get out of the Indiana cold for a little while. We spent 10 days tent camping in the Koreshan Historical Site campground south of Fort Myers. There was not much in the way of internet access and I didn’t go out of my way to seek any.
We also did not have a radio or tv which is kind of nice except that you lose track of what’s going on in the world. Not being bombarded by 24/7 breaking news is the pathway to tranquility but eventually you have to go back to the real world.
We are currently in Panama City Beach where the temperature is in the low sixties and the wind speed is about the same. It’s brutal compared to our high seventies in SW Florida but it is also helping to re-acclimate us to the weather we’re going to face up north.
I’m sitting in a bar at ten o’clock in the morning with a couple of friends watching a twenty something, bare midriffed bartendress mix me a Virgin Mary. I cannot drink any more coffee and I was looking for something to fortify myself before tackling the news to see if the new administration has gotten us out of the terrible mess we’re in.
I was a bit embarrassed at the way the girl looked at me when I ordered it. She either thought I was someone who was to much of a pansy to have a real drink before noon or else I was some kind of an old geezer pervert throwing innuendoes around.
It was neither. I just happen to like the drink.