Count Down to Snow

Can you crawl out of bed, walk through your on-suite and step into a nice warm pool in the morning?  After tomorrow morning neither can I!!!  Crap.  This is our last day in this house.  Tomorrow we have to motor back up to Winter Haven.  I am so going to miss being able to have this early morning dip.

We spent the morning cleaning up the place and packing up much of our things.  Tom and John got the kayaks deflated and packed up.  They got the motorcycles and bikes into the trailer ready for the return trip to Winter Haven where John and Judy are spending their winter.

John got a bit of a cleaning up himself.  Judy gave him a buzz cut and a close shave.  He looks so much cooler!!  Nice job Judy.  She is a woman of many talents.

We had seen some water snakes the other day when we were kayaking.  But today we saw a Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake on the side of the road near the front of our house.  It had been run over by a car.  I had to take a picture so that I could check on the internet to be sure what kind of rattler it was.  This is what it  looks like when it doesn't have any tire tracks.


And with the tire tracks...not so pretty.

They will average 3 to 6 feet long but can be up to 8 feet long.  This one looked to be about 4 feet long.  They are highly venomous but will avoid people if it can.  The Eastern Diamondback is the largest of the rattlesnake family.  Just glad we didn't run into this fellow when he was slithering around near our house.

It was a really hot day today.  Maybe the hottest since we arrived...go figure!!  Tom had an afternoon dip in the pool to cool off.

 Then we got some action shots of John

It was a nice day to just relax and take life easy.  It has been a really busy couple of weeks but it has gone so quickly.   We had a tasty beer-can chicken for dinner this evening.  Still not sure if life could get any better.

Until next time - safe travels.