Here we are on the LAST day of January 2022, oh my where does the time go???

 Terry

As is often the case as I write Terry is awake and with the paper.  I would say she is again same.  I will try to get her out of bed and into the living room today as we know it is GOOD to move as much as possible.  I need to think of something she would like for breakfast and I do think French Toast will be on the menu.

No complaints but just stating the temp this morning, when I retrieved the paper, was 38 and that is pretty close to as chilly as it gets here.  Not since I have been coming to Naples have we gotten frost where we live.  Of course there is frost in the country and a picture this morning of a groove of orange trees where they had heaters scattered around trying to prevent damage to the fruit.  I also noticed that some places here cover their flowers for the night.

My blog today will consist mostly of some pictures.  The first is about a yearly auction they have in Naples in January with the money going to programs for children.  An example is below.

This car was donated and then went up for bid.  The money that was paid for the car goes to charity.  Here this car must be pretty special as someone paid $650,000 for it, yikes!!!

I guess this explains itself but really, that much money!  I wonder if she wrote out a check or paid with a credit card?????😲

I think the above examples pretty much tells the story of Naples.  There is a lot of money here.  Don't get me wrong.  There are a lot of NORMAL people like Terry and I living here too!  The auction took in $22,000,000 which is the most ever according to the paper.

I post this only for the 9 hole golf course that one can see.  This is Captiva South Sea Resort which is not really exclusive as far as I know but I show it because Terry's daughter and family stayed here a few years ago and I golfed with them there.  It is a very interesting place as one can see it is on a peninsula.

I post this which I took out of the WSJ.  Terry and I visited Ketchikan while coming back on the ferry from Alaska and we did see some of these.  I think we were told that we could be off the ship 4 hours that day.  

Well here it is past 9:00 so time to get some things done before I get ready for tennis at 10:30.  I am thinking I will need a sweater at least for the ride over but I see that the temp is supposed to be about 50 by the time we play.  Maybe a sweater for the first half hour?

I know there is a lot of time before taxes but I have been wondering about tax papers for things.  Well we did get some tax papers Saturday so it looks like they will be coming.  I thought maybe there would be NO taxes this year AND if you believe that I have ------------!!!

I was worried about John and Judi as they both had covid and I had heard nothing but John sent a message over the weekend and said I should call.  It was good to catch up as we talked for some time.  It sounds like they are doing OK and John is getting better.  

No, time to sign off and get ready.  I am hoping I play OK today as I just do not feel all that great.  Maybe if I finish my FP that should help, right???