Daily Archives: December 21, 2010
Birthmarks and Unrequited Love . . .
This morning started with Jan heading out about 10 am to get a pedicure. I got up about the same time and started catching up on some more computer stuff.
While Jan was gone, our daughter Brandi called to check in after her doctor’s visit at Texas Children’s Hospital. Landon’s pediatrician had suggested they take in to have the hemangioma birthmark on his forehead checked out.
Funny thing for being a birthmark is that it wasn’t there when he was born. It didn’t appear for over a month, and at first just looked like a small scratch. Now it’s almost the size of a dime.
The doctor said there was no problem and that most of these disappear by age 2, and can be treated by a pulsed dye laser if needed.
So everyone was relieved.
Now that all of Brandi’s Christmas cards have gone out, I’m now allowed to post this picture of Landon and Santa that was on their Christmas card.
Landon certainly seemed happy about the whole thing. Santa must have told him that he was getting everything he asked for.
About 5 pm we drove over to Victory Lakes to meet our friend Maria for dinner at Denny’s. Then afterwards, Maria and Jan headed down to La Marque to play Bingo.
Thought I’d reposted our visit to Homestead FL and the Coral Castle last year.
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Thought for the Day:
The only real purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped in the first place.
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Unrequited Love and Turkey & Dressing…
Posted on May 14, 2009
As I said before, we’re parked at an RV community in Homestead (actually Florida City) FL called Goldcoaster RV Resort with over 400 sites, with most of them having mobile homes on the lots, but they have a lot of sites for rent.
One of the plants we’ve seen around here is a tree with large bunches of bright orange red flowers.
We were first told it was a Royal Poinsettia tree, but finally found it was a Royal Poinciana tree. These trees really stand out.
After lunch at Cracker Barrel (Thursday is Turkey & Dressing Day which is a favorite of Jan’s) we headed a few miles north to the Coral Castle.
The history behind the Coral Castle is one of unrequited love. Edward Leedskalnin was jilted by his 16 year old fiancé the day before his wedding in Latvia.
Immigrating to American in the early 1920′s, he supposedly built the Coral Castle (then called Rock Gate) in tribute to his “Sweet Sixteen”.
The place was featured on ‘In Search of…” and “That’s Incredible” and there is some controversy how this one man, working only at night, was able to move stones as heavy as 30 tons by himself.
If you want more info, click here for a pretty good article.
Here are some pics.
My Sweet Sixteen (Actually she was 19 when we met)
Tomorrow we head down to the Florida Keys for 5 days.
Stay tuned…
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