Now N Then

The wearing of the green. Corned beef and cabbage. Green Cupcakes. About 50 attendees. And a band.

great T shirt

The park in Seaside.

A long day. Took John and Nancy and their daughter Barbara down 30A to Seaside. Wandered and then had lunch at Bud and Allys. Then drove through Watercolor and got back around 4 PM. Left at 5 PM for Friday Fest, a once a month downtown Panama City Festival (old cars, food, vendors and music). Went to St Andrews for dinner at Captain’s Table and then to the Granite Cafe for Green Beer except I opted for regular and Betty had wine. Got home at 10 PM.

Seaside

The Gulf of Mexico was rough

To the starting gate

At the outdoor Special Operations Aircraft displays.

Pave Low MH-53

Roy is a high 70’s low 80’s golfer who hits a long ball. Once a year I outdrive him.

I outdrove Roy

The gator is back on the 7th hole

The upstairs of the Grill is a museum. Kind of like our basement.

Before cell phones.

Portable typewriter. It’s kind of like a laptop except all it does is type. No memory. No Calculations. No pictures. And you needed copy sets and if you made a Typo then you had to white out the typo on each copy and retype. In the military you could only make 7 mistakes (I think) per page. Any more and you had to retype the page.

Before CD’s and Ipod’s. The song “I’m looking over a four leaf clover” predated the Grateful Dead.

Saturday found us at the Scottish Festival at Grace Church in Panama City. Tabor throwing, Hay Pitching and bagpipes.

Tabor

Hay Pitching over the high bar

McGuires Pub Band

McGuires Pub Band

Hulburt Field Air Force Base is home of the Air Force Special Operations Command. We played the Gator Lakes Golf Course on Base last Wednesday. Played well and scored well but were disappointed that none of the many alligators that we had seen on previous visits there were around(or at least that we could see)

Just off one of the fairways was an old burned out plane (I think a C-130) that we assumed was used for fire training.

On Wednesday we went up to Ft Walton to play golf at Hurlbert AFB and to have dinner with Leo and Lois. We had a coupon for a bottle of wine and one two for one dinner so the four of us got $47 off dinner. I love a deal.

Inside the grill. Upstairs was a museum(more later)