February 5: Hmmmm! Starting to Get Suspicious

So the situation is that Linda cannot do dishes nor housework until her stitches are removed. We thought that was going to happen when we went to the Cleveland Clinic Westin last Friday to meet with her surgeon. Turned out he said she needs to leave the stitches in for another 7 -10 days! Starting to wonder if she worked a deal with the doctor to get more time off! :>)


Seriously, her surgeon said her knuckles were doing fine but she just needed more healing time with the stitches in, in order to be safe. Of course we were disappointed but appreciate the "safe rather than sorry" approach. Means another trip to Miami February 13th. Maybe the flowers from Sharon on January 19th were an omen. These are the same flowers that were in the January 23rd blog post. It is amazing that they still look great and it is February 5th. We checked again, and yes, they are real live flowers. Sharon must have found Superflowers!

January 14th

February 5th

Staying with the botanical theme, I decided to see how fast the coconut (palm tree) that sprouted was growing. (See the January 14th blog post).  In 22 days it has sprouted some new leaves and if you look closely you'll see some roots are coming out the bottom of the coconut! I'll have to keep watching it.

January 22nd

Might as well include the plantain (banana) growth, also pictured in the January 22nd blog post. They still look like plantains to us but have gotten a bit fatter and longer. Time will tell!

February 5th

Randy and Cindy's kids, Nick & Nikki plus grandkids, Liam and Mia came to Banana Bay last night after a trip to Disney World. Nick and Nikki are going on a cruise and Liam and Mia are staying on the boat with Randy and Cindy. It was an especially nice night so we had a spaghetti dinner on the picnic table.

The kids were up bright and early sitting on the swim platform with their feet in the water when a manatee came to visit. Very fun! I have been trying to get a good picture that shows how large the tail is compared to the body. I finally succeeded.








Having come from Canada the kids were really enjoying the beach and warm weather. Then they asked to go on a coconut hunt so we could break open and eat a fresh coconut.

Mia shaking her coconut to see if it's a good one.

They both quickly learned how to identify a "good one". You simply shake it and if you hear coconut milk it's a winner. After finding six winners Cindy and I declared that to be enough.

Liam with coconuts and large seed pod

Liam was quite the little bushman carrying back his coconuts and a seed pod.

















Once back to the boats we proceeded to use our drop a rock on it coconut opening strategy.

You can see the rock bouncing off of the coconut and the coconut rolling away. Note that Cindy and the kids are a safe distance away.

Once again it was successful and we enjoyed the fresh coconut milk and coconut. We have plenty left.