It’s hard to believe that our decision to spend all of Memorial Day out of doors at home with our kids and friend Gary back in 1992, swimming in the pool, grilling out, playing games, and just relaxing, has turned into an annual gathering of family and friends. These days some folks travel long distances, from Florida, Ohio, Arkansas, Georgia. It has become a annual reunion of friends as well as a feast with many of the same foods on the menu year after year!
What a treat to pause for a BBQ lunch with the locals at Pearl Country Store and Barbecue on US-441 in Micanopy, Florida. It’s a taste of the Florida we remeber from our youth.
By deliberate choice we were in Medina for all the winter holiday festivities from Candlelight Walk in the days before Thanksgiving through A Christmas Carol and A Celtic Christmas as well as an Alex Bevan Concert and a historic house tour all the way through Medina’s 31st Ice Festival but perhaps the highlight was the town hosting hundreds of folks whose homes and lives were devasted by Hurricane Helene at the A Promise of Christmas Event the middle of January. It’s an honor to be a part of this amazing community!
The warmth we anticipated when we headed to the Caribbean in mid-January didn’t really materialize but the fun we had with our dancing friends and the great crew of the Margaritaville at Sea Islander more than made up for the not so favorable weather.
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