Won't you be my neighbor?

I'm happy to say that my beach trip was fantastic. The weather was ok on Friday, yuck on Saturday, beautiful on Sunday. My Dad and Ann had to leave town early Saturday, because they had some serious damage from the tornado (or whatever it was) in Cullman on Friday. Ten trees fell all throughout their yard! I'm talking up-rooted, landing just feet from the house...but certainly not ignoring the back deck that was badly messed up. Geesh. I'm so grateful nothing actually hit the house.

Anyway, that means I had all day Saturday and Sunday to myself. It was nice to do nothing. I took my camera but didn't take one single picture.

Also, I officially started the South Beach Diet today. I don't know if I fully realized until just a while ago that I have committed to not eat bread or sugar for two full weeks....Hmmmm...I'm wondering how this is going to go. It is otherwise great. Very practical and pretty easy. You can still eat good food (and drink coffee & tea - which is highly important.) I'm looking forward to my wardrobe expanding (instead of me! har har...) There are quite a few pairs of pants that I'd still like to wear - I'm not done with them yet - but they aren't working with me, you know?

And in case you are wondering - no, there is really no topic or pattern to this post. It's just been a while since I blogged, and I wanted to update.

Moving on...
I have always wanted to go through some pictures I took while playing Rook with my family. So I decided to post a couple of them that I liked. If you play Rook, you would know that I was pretty excited about getting this STELLAR hand......




And here is an action shot of my dad dealing......



TODAY'S LAUGH: This actually happened on Sunday. I was trying to hang out on the beach until the very last second before making the 4-5 hour drive home. While sitting in my chair with my ipod, I noticed these two older women walking out onto the sand with bags and beach chairs. They stood for a moment as if waiting for someone else and tried to decide where to sit. As they unfolded their chairs, the older woman (probably 60-70 yrs old) sat in her chair and immediately fell back - head to the ground, feet up in the air right in the middle of the beach! The other woman quickly helped pull her chair back down to the ground. Just as they couldn't stop laughing, neither could I! She was okay and knew that people saw her...just a bit embarrassed. It still makes me laugh just thinking about it right now. Oh it was absolutely hysterical!