A BEAUTIFUL DAY!

Today’s a beautiful day and yesterday was a beautiful day, so that means it’s a great life.

What could be better than sitting on the deck overlooking the clear, blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico and our white sandy beach at 7:30am enjoying the warm 20 degree Celsius weather? Ahhh. Nothing. (Richard he loves his early morning walk on the beach.) I enjoy walking the beach too but also enjoy just sitting, looking, and listening.

The weather has been lovely since we arrived. Now granted this is our first year here in December. January, if anything like the past, will be cooler.

We’ve settled into a quasi routine. We’re early risers (6:15 am) but around 5:30 I turn on Island Morning https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-30-island-morning to catch up on the news at home. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island

We’re about a 15 min. drive to town (the house is on a long strip, one road in and out, with the Gulf on one side and a lagoon on the other)

thus our decision to do gym/yoga here https://www.gulfshoresal.gov/1162/David-L-Bodenhamer-Recreation-Center only three days a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday). A little fiscal responsibility. Other days may be included in January and February if the weather’s not as sunny.

We were smart this past year. We slowly put away $$$ to use for meals by selling items we no longer used or needed on Marketplace plus our little side hustles. Our goal was to save enough to have one breakfast and one lunch/dinner out every week. And we reached our goal. What a fantastic feeling; NO MEALS ON OUR CREDIT CARDS. Yay! What a nice treat every month not to have that on our bills.

After the gym we headed to the Tanger Outlet Mall.https://www.tangeroutlet.com/foley As we’ve been many times in past years we have some fav stores. Mine are TJ Max, Kate Spade, and Michael Kors, though this year I’ll also be spending lots of time in the children’s stores. Get ready David for some surprises.

The next stop was just across the street to Marshalls. Another fav. Bonus. Two people stopped me and told me they loved my hair.

I guess December’s not a great month to shop there. Things picked over. Hopefully January/February will be better.

Our plan was to stop at the Safari Club https://safariclubgulfshores.com/ for a late lunch/early dinner, whatever you want to call it. But the best laid plans… Apparently if they’re not busy in the afternoons they close whenever they want. (Told to us by a person in the zoo beside it.) Not open for us today. That’s ok. We’ll go another day.

Of course I already had a list of places we wanted to eat so we chose one from it. The Pink Pony. https://pink pony pub.net/?utm_source=GMB&utm_medium=organic

Lovely to sit on the deck overlooking the beach. What a way to end this beautiful day. Pub food. We had burgers, fries, and coleslaw. Mine was ok. Richard loved his as it was on sourdough bread.

It’s a Beautiful Day – Michael Bublé

Take care and stay healthy.

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