March 22, 2014

Englewood, FL

DINNER WITH FAMILY

Monte tried tempting a couple of the squirrels hanging around our rig with some stale bread.  

  One squirrel came close enough to grab a piece and run away.

When I saw they weren’t really interested in the bread I brought out some nuts I had left over from Thanksgiving.  Again only one squirrel came close enough to grab one and then ran away.  I guess we have very choosey squirrels around this place.

In the late afternoon we drove the one and a half miles to my brother’s house.    

While I sat outside with my parents,

Monte stayed in the kitchen taking pictures of my brother Jon making seaweed balls.  WHAT!  I passed on trying it because the ingredients included smoked salmon.  I am not a fish eater.  Monte tried it and liked it.

After a variety of appetizers, some of us went outside of the lanai to play Ladder Ball or as my Canadian sister-in-law calls it, Moose Ball.

 

 

 

There are two sets of ladders with three rungs, each rung scoring a different point value. 

 

 

 

The object of the game it to toss a bola (two golf balls attached to each end of a rope) across to the opposite side ladder and hope the rope wraps around a rung of the ladder. 

We divided into two teams.  My sister-in-law Margaret and her friend Nancy made up one team against Monte and me.   It was my first time playing and it showed.  I pretty much sucked at it. 

But it was fun.

After a delicious dinner we sat around talking and laughing for a couple of hours before calling it a night.