Keys Trip 3

DON'T START HERE! Go to the first post regarding the keys trip and then read up for the best flow of the story. Now to continue, the following are photos from our snorkeling at Sombrero Light on Friday and a bit of fishing the last day. We caught over the course of the trip some nice Mahi Mahi, tripletail and ocean triggerfish. Much of it is in the freezer. The last picture here though is three chefs as we prepared mahi fish tacos! Yum! here are a queen angel and at puffer fish... a dinner plate size turtle and a friendly and curious Bermuda chubb... And finally Michael's big Mahi and the cooks in the kitchen making tacos! I hope you enjoy the photos as we sure had a great time in the Keys!! We are happy to fish and snorkel anywhere and anytime! Love to all of you and hope that all is well in your world. At the risk of boring you with more travel posts I will get some info and pictures up soon from my recent trip to San Francisco for the Association of Zoological Horticulture conference. TTFN, Wendy

Keys Trip 2

Chris and Gayle joined us on Monday evening and we headed out to fish and snorkel on Tuesday and Wednesday. The weather was sketchy those couple of days but we got some snorkeling in on Coffins Patch reef and near Sombrero Light. Here is a picture of Cap'n Michael and his hearty crew This is Sombrero Light Michael and Chris snorkeling at Coffins Patch and one of many Moon Jellyfish we swam with... And here is a beautiful jewel fish on Coffins Patch Once again continued in the next post....

Back in time to the Keys Trip

Hello Everyone! Okay I promised pictures from the Keys trip in September, so here we go (and this may take multiple posts to upload the pics. Here is our crew, Michael, me, and Chris and Gayle at Sparky's a great fish eatery at Key Colony Beach. Here is the house we rented and the boat at dockage. The first day it was just Michael and me fishing... Now I will go to the next post so I don't get into Blogger jail. Continued....

It can be very good to be a horse!

I just had to share this with you as it struck me funny yesterday. I have a 29 year old horse, Callie. She has a pretty good life as she hasn't been ridden for probably 10 years and her only job is to eat grass in the pasture. Every 6-8 weeks we need to trim her feet and it isn't really her favorite thing to do. So before she get's her feet trimmed she gets a mild horse seditive. Now yesterday she had her "cocktail" then got a bath, i gave her a hair cut and then the farrier, Bob Roser, came out to trim her feet. While she is standing for what is a horse pedicure she gets a massage from both me and Bob's wife Katy. Oh to be a horse! she basically had a full spa treatment! I should be so lucky, right? On a different note I will post some pictures of the week Michael and I spent recently in the Florida Keys. Of course you all may be tired of pitures of fish but some of these will be underwater again while we were snorkeling, so stay tuned! Love and Blessings to you all, Wendy

A beautiful if steamy September Saturday!

Hello all, I hope you aren't bored with fishing stories because that is really all I have to share. I can't imagine that you really want to hear that I washed the dogs and worked in the garden this morning. BTW the second round of black-eyed peas will begin to be harvested this week. I lost the okra that was in the ground but have two nice containers of it so hope for okra before too long.It is still very rainy and hot here. Yesterday we headed over to the coast to Yankeetown on the Citrus/Levy county border to fish. The weather was pretty much against us at first so we puttered around in the river and saw some great flocks of woodstorks and roseate spoonbills. Here is a tree with both perched in it to wait out the storm. I know they are small you may have to zoom in a bit. This is my Captain and fishing guide... And here is his trophy fish for the day. This snook was 38+ inches long and weighed about 25 pounds. The slot for snook is 28-33 inches in the Gulf so he went back in the water. I loved watching Michael cradling the fish in his hands as he revived it and it swam off. We did make it outside into the Gulf of Mexico and saw a lot of birds and bait but didn't catch anything. Still it was a lovely day! A big shout out to our friends Randall and Alison Stocker who are sailing in the south Pacific. I just got Alison's update and they are in American Samoa currently and soon heading to New Zealand. "Sigh" Michael and I are envious but hope the wind will always be right the anchorages secure and the fishing and snorkeling awesome! Love to you all, Wendy

Good scans!

hi everyone I do want to point out this post is within a month from the last one. Yeah, that means I am reasonably current. There is good news to share, last Friday I had CAT scans and they showed that all the mets (tumors) are stable or in other words nothing grew since the last scan. The doctor's call that stable metabolic disease. This is the first time since we found the mets in my liver that they haven't grown between scans. Yahoo and praise the Lord, our Great Physician! This is an indication that the new drug treatment is working. I love that since this treatment also doesn't make me feel sick. I really feel back to normal and have been swimming, biking and walking regularly. I am back up to speed at work as well. All this I am very grateful for and give appreciation to my medical team and then all Glory to Our LORD. Thanks for celebrating with me. I pray that all is well with each of you. Blessings, Wendy

Falling back into my slacker ways!

Hi there everybody! Wow once again I come to the blog and realize that 6 weeks have gone by since I posted last. I haven't been in a coma just being a slacker and not posting. But it has been a fun and busy siwx weeks. It was back to work after a great time down at Pineland, but we have still fit in a couple of fishing trips including one down off of Palm Beach. The water there is jsut amazingly blue and I love to watch the flying fish and the tailwalking houndfish and half beak fish!We caught small mahi and amberjack but nothing big enough to keep. Still it was a great couple of days fishing! We have also cleared out a section of the garden and started some things for late summer- more black eyed peas, okra and onions. This weekend it looks like the weather will keep us on shore so I plan on getting some herb containers growing too. We have had plenty of rain which is a good thing! Nothing exciting to report on the health front other than that I feel great, am back to swimming and riding the bike, and continuing the treatment with femara and ibrance with no side effects and good indications on my tumur markers in blood work. Big smiley face. Hope all is well in your part of the world. Blessings and love, Wendy