Found Warm - But No Sunshine Yet

February 5, 2011

From Grandma's diary-

Feb. 5, 1914 - "Thur, baked six loaves bread and pan of biscuits, uncle George was here to dinner, mended, read five last chapters of Job."

Feb. 6, 1914 - "Fri, baked ten pies and cake, fixed dress,mended, read eleven Psalms.

Packing to leave on Jan. 31

The farmhouse above is where my grandmother and grandfather lived in 1914 when she was writing her diary.  Also where Joan and I live now.

We spent today touring St. Augustine and had a real nice day.  And it was in the 60's - yahoo!  But no sun - oh well, I'll trade for one out of two at this point.

There sure is a lot of history about this town and I don't remember all of it but the British and Spanish spent a lot of time fighting over it.  The Castillo de San Juan fort played a key part in it.  We watched a re-enactment of the Spanish firing a cannon and that was quite an operation.  We took a look at an exhibit of cannon balls they had and I had always wondered if they had some kind of exploding cannon balls.  Well they did by inserting a wooden fuse in a hole in the ball and then by adjusting the length of it they could time it to explode just before hitting the target or after.  That was nasty besides some of the other things they could fire such as nuts and bolts, balls connected by chains, etc.

Firing the cannon!

The oven where they heated the balls red hot before loading them in the cannon.

Bottom end of a mortar.

Back in the old days they had over 60 cannons at the fort.

We stopped at Habitat International's Global Village headquarters on the way to Florida to meet some people there.  We had a real nice visit there.

The Saturday before we left a couple of us went down to the Canton Hot Rod and Motorcycle Show.  Below is an example of what some of these guys can do along with a big bankroll.

Below is a before picture.

Below is the after.