An Introduction to Blogging

This is my first post ever on here.  This has been a family week.  My wonderful son (I have 2 wonderful sons) just returned to NYC today and it went by way too fast.  I have a daughter and two grandchildren here in Florida not far from my house.  I spend most weekends with them as it is important for me to be a regular presence in their lives.  I love kids anyway and have done a lot of nanny work.  Kids are honest and direct and laugh a lot.  They still have a lot of  natural creativity that has not been dulled out of them.

  So this week we took a trip to Orlando because my son wanted to give the kids a big treat before they return to school.  We went to a hotel and water park called Nickleodean Resort or something like that and featured gigantic pictures of Sponge Bob and other characters all over the place.  It was jam-packed with families and there were 2 large pools with water slides and tunnels and lounge chairs and some tables with umbrellas.  It was all pretty silly and the kids loved it.  I was happy to be with my sweeties.  I did slide down a dark tunnel & was shot out into the pool - once.  Enough for me.

Tomorrow I am going ice-skating in a rink with the kids and the Boy Scouts.  It was great fun last time and I will dress a little warmer this time.

I will also be happy to be back in my casita, alone, and get back to the many things I need to do.  I stopped by there earlier in the week and noticed that fire ants have claimed a large area of my brick walkway and I will be dealing with that Pronto!  I will google "natural repellants for fire ants" just to see if I notice anything promising, but will probably have to buy some deadly stuff.  I have learned that they make their tunnels much deeper than any other ants and so are much more difficult to remove.    They can be positively dangerous when one is gardening.  I always wear gloves and rubber boots, but fire ants are so fast when disturbed they can be up to the arms in nothing flat.  Gotta be alert.   I do love to garden because it always seems quite magical.  Most of my yard to too shady for vegetables, but I grow flowers & shrubs & herbs.  I will talk much more about gardening in future posts.  I think more & more people will be wanting to grow their own food considering the effects that drought and flooding have had on the crops of the world.