2009 BIGGEST BRIGHTEST FULL MOON

OK I was sitting out on our back patio when the moon started rising and I said WOW, Gill came home shortly thereafter and said yes tonight is the biggest brightest full moon of 2009 so I ran in to get the camera, it had gotten a little dark because I had to wait for the moon to get up where I could take a picture of it. It does look really close. From an article on AOL, the moon tonight will appear 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter. This month's full moon is known as Wolf Moon.

BUNCO

OK my friend Jelda asked what is BUNCO. It is a fun dice game. We have 12 people, so 3 tables of 4. We roll 3 dice, you & your partner count the six's you roll. Table 1 plays until they reach 20 & then that round is done. You follow instructions on the table as to what you do next, stay at table, go to next table, keep partners, change partners. A BUNCO is when you roll 3 of a kind. You keep track of the number of BUNCOs you roll, the number of games you win, high game score. And then sometime we have a special dice such as a red one, so then you keep track of red 6's. We all donate $5 and then at the end of the night prizes are awarded. We all have an index card & punch holes to keep track of things & then empty the punches onto the floor. A few times a year, we do couples BUNCO & then there are 24 of us.

When I went to Vegas, I went to the Gambler General Store & bought different colored dice as well as some with flamingos & some with gators

OK as a side note, I have learned how to do a brand new post to my BLOG from my phone, in fact this post is coming from my phone however what is not working for me is when I want to comment either in my own BLOG like to answer a question such as what is BUNCO or to post to a friends BLOG. Can anyone help?

OK thanks for being patient, I know this was an incredibly long post.

GO GATORS

OK I am a Hoosier gal but since I have lived in Florida for 21 years, I better acknowledge this BIG win especially since I have a lot of friends who are GATOR fans.

BEAUTIFUL DAY

It was an absolutely beautiful day today here in Orlando - 72 degrees & sunny. Dreamsicle enjoyed it curled up all day in a chair on our back patio. I am off to play BUNCO tonight, It is so much fun, a group of 12 of us, we meet at 7 PM for appetizers, dinner at 8, BUNCO at 9 and then dessert at 10. #

Tracey

http://traceywaddellsblog.blogspot.com/

NICE QUOTE

A good friend gave me a nice 2009 daily calendar with daily thoughts & inspirations. I would like to share the one from January 1 - "The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship" by Joseph Addison. THANK YOU TO ALL MY FRIENDS!!

Tracey

http://traceywaddellsblog.blogspot.com/

NICE STATE PARK

We started out on New Year's Day to go to a state park but missed the exit and ended up at another one instead - O'Leno - just outside of Gainesville in High Springs. Very nice park, nice facilities, cabins to rent. We hiked a trail along the Sante Fe River and what is interesting is that in this park, the river submerges and stays submerged for 3 miles and reappears. We saw both where it submerges and then where it rises. If you did not know, you could never tell. However we enjoyed the park, nice and quiet.

Gill is so good at holding the camera out to take our picture when there is no one else around, it was so peaceful and quiet there.



This is where the river submerges and then it travels underground for 3 miles. We met a couple there and they told us that this part usually looks a toilet flushing however the river is really low right now so you can not even tell that it is submerging.

This is where the river comes back up to to the ground, can't tell that. It is called RIVER RISE.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I just wanted to say HAPPY NEW Year, OK better late than never. I will post later about a short trip Gill and I took today to a State Park that was very nice.