Sunday October 6th

Sunday: We all slept in Sunday morning, and I barely got ready to go to church on time. We made frozen fruit smoothies for breakfast as we hadn’t had one in a long time. After church we had a lunch of leftover, crostini, goat cheese with fresh basil and real peaches and a drizzle honey on top. These were the appetizers we took to the River House last night. And I made a fresh spinach dip which we also enjoyed at lunch. Ford had had a large, frozen slushy smoothie for breakfast, so did not have any of these appetizers for lunch. We left the house around three 2:30 in the afternoon as we were going to stop at Ancient City Brewery to buy some red ale or possibly take the generator Hugh gave us to Leaa and Jesse‘s house.  By the time we got into St. Augustine though, we went straight to the Mellow Mushroom on the Island. Jesse got the generator; the instructions and they were happy to have it as their generator is in North Carolina at their cabin. With hurricane Milton coming Wednesday and Thursday they did not have a generator in St. Augustine.  We enjoyed visiting with Marsha and Carl, Cara, and Travis, Pearl, and Miles, Dylan, Leaa, and Jesse they all came to hear Jesse play and it was actually nice meeting up before Jesse began to play so we could visit with him too.

All our mouths were full when Leaa took this picture!

We tried curlers on AA's hair (Leaa gave her a one piece that you twist all her hair on). Hopefully the curls will stay in for HOCO. She tried on her dress, under-garments and shoes and wants to polish her fingernails blue.

Church setting up pallets for the pumpkin patch:

Leaa told us of all the family gatherings planned up thru mid-December. We told her of Ford’s recent lab results of him being anemic. She knew of Justin’s blood issue and she, Liv and Dylan are all borderline anemic (Liv stopped being vegetation as she wasn't getting enough iron).
 It’s been a rainy day and expected to rain on Monday as we have a northeaster going up the coast east coast of Florida.  We drove home stopping at the Ancient City Brewery, but they were already closed at 6 PM. Back at home. Alyzabeth and I watched a couple more episodes of Pride and Prejudice (the BBC 1995 version with Colin Firth). Also, the Jaguars won their game, barely against the Indianapolis Colts and we watched part of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys Sunday night football but it was delayed an hour and a half for rain and lightning.

And in Maine, the family gathered for Grayson and Brandon's birthdays (Melissa's is next):