Landscaping & Sue called for jury duty

May has continued to be a busy month for us.

I've made quite a bit of progress in putting together my documents for the Florida State Pioneer Descendants Certificate for Mike, Fletcher and Chris. I'm submitting documents to prove that Mike's 3rd great-grandparents Silas and Avis Franklin Phelps Fletcher and 2nd great-grandfather William Howe Fletcher, Sr. were Florida Pioneers before it became a state in 1845. I've already put in a lot of hours and still have more to go. I've been researching our families for over 30 years and I find that working on this project has helped to

We bought 2 dozen red Penta plants when Home Depot had them on sale this month and we planted them along the back wall of the Florida room. When Fletcher was here for Mother's Day, he suggested Pentas because they do well in sun and that area gets a LOT of sun since it faces west. We put down landscape edging and mulch where we planted the
Pentas. Hopefully the sun won't be too much for them.

Mike got a call from the VA to go to Orlando to have a hearing test done for hearing aids at Hearing Associates. So we drove over there on May 20 for his appointment. Of course, we don't yet know what they recommended. On our way home we stopped at the Olive Garden in West Melbourne to have dinner. Mike and I both had the endless Soup and Salad.

On May 26 I drove down to the Indian River County courthouse in Vero Beach to report for jury duty. I had to be there at 8:30 and after checking in, I waited in a large room along with the rest of the other people called for jury duty. I don't know how many were there, but there were a lot of us. Unfortunately, there had been a problem with the A/C for the courthouse over the weekend and it still wasn't operating correctly. There were several large fans set up in the room to try to keep it cooler.

It turned out that the lady I sat next to had a RV and we spent our time talking about RVs and traveling. It helped to make the time go by faster. She and several others were called to go to a courtroom for jury selection and at 10:00 the rest of us were excused for the day and for the rest of the week. If I were age 70, I could claim an exemption from jury duty because of age, but that won't be until September 2016.

Our friend Symphony from Alabama and a friend of hers are visiting relatives here in Florida and they will be staying with us later this week. They are driving down in Symphony's Winnebago Brave motorhome.