Country Roads

Ocala, Florida

Weather: low 73 degrees, high 93 degrees, mostly cloudy skies, occasional light sprinkles

This was a day when the most exciting thing happening appeared to be an octopus picking Spain to defeat The Netherlands for the World Cup in soccer. This sport seems to be nothing more than a bunch of people running around kicking a ball, tripping each other, penalty cards being flashed for things that most people can't see, and the average score of a game being 1 to 0. I thought the sport of curling in the Winter Olympics was more exciting. Give me a good old American sport, such as football, especially the college variety, baseball, and basketball.

Oh, by the way. The octopus got it right. That's a sad commentary on a sport when the octopus seems to get more attention than the championship game.

Carolyn felt well enough that we were able to get out for a ride through some of the beautiful horse country. Riding along these country roads seems to have a calming effect as we enjoy the huge moss draped oak trees, post card beautiful pastures, training tracks with horses being exercised, and barns that equal any home in the county. These horses are well taken care of. And, when you you think of how expensive they are and the amount of money they can earn their owners, the care appears to be warranted.

With the cloudiness and lightning flashing in the sky, it looked like the bottom was going to fall out, so we headed home. By the end of the day, we might have gotten about 40 drops of rain. That's okay, since it has rained so much recently. The interesting thing about all the rain is that we have not seen any mosquitoes. This much rain in Texas would have us overwhelmed by mosquitoes. Bzzzz, slap!

Actually, something else was more exciting than the soccer game. Carolyn was able to make us some fried chicken that was very low in sodium. It was tasty, and gave us a break from some of the other things we've eaten since I was released from the hospital. I have a feeling that as we go along with this new way of eating for me, she will be able to come up with more good things to eat. I hope so.

More later, be safe.

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