On the 13th I attended genealogical society's monthly meeting and the guest speaker's topic was DNA testing and genealogy research - something I was really interested in learning more about and I learned a lot that day. Mike and I had just sent off our DNA samples to Ancestry the week before and we're curious to see what the results will be, but it will be weeks before we are notified of the results.
Mike went to Home Depot on the 14th and bought 5 gallons of blue paint and 2 gallons of white that we are going to paint the house with - plus all the rollers and supplies we'll need.
Mike started painting the house on the 15th and I have noted on the photos which is the old color of the house and the new color we're painting it.
We had planned on going to the MOAA luncheon on the 23rd but Mike started coming down with a cold the day before, so we didn't go.
I've been checking on Ancestry to see when they received our DNA samples and when they would start testing them. They started the lab testing on mine on the 23rd and they started on Mike's on the 26th, we're excited to see what the results will be for our ethnicity and see if our DNA
Fletcher drove up from Ft. Lauderdale for a overnight visit on the 3rd. I made chocolate chip cookies before he came and used my new KitchenAid hand mixer I bought a few days before. I had noticed the last few times I used my old hand mixer (I think we got it for a wedding gift 47 years ago) and I could smell it getting hot and figured it must be time to replace it. I really love this new KitchenAid mixer - it's like night and day compared to my old one. We went out to eat for dinner at the Sebastian Roadside restaurant which has become one of our two favorite places in town to eat at. Mike ordered their Reuben sandwich and Fletcher and I had their French Dip.
Before Fletcher left on Sunday afternoon we went to lunch at Woody's Bar-B-Que. We had met our friends up there for lunch once and Fletcher was with us and he ordered fried okra. Fletcher said he was craving some fried okra and he remembered eating it at Woody's. Just before Fletcher left to go home, I handed him a box filled with chocolate chip cookies I had baked before he got here - I actually made 2 batches and hid one while he was here. I wonder how many cookies were left in the box by the time he got home?
Mike had his 2nd laser surgery to take care of the cloudiness of the back membrane on his lens implant on the 6th. It only takes a couple of minutes to do the laser surgery.
On the 9th our globe-trotting friends Bob (Bob is responsible for Mike and I meeting) and Beverly stopped by for a quick visit. They had returned to the
