abaesel: Watching the Bucs v 49ers game with my Captain Jack. I swear he hears the NFL theme music and comes running to my lap!.
abaesel: Jerry took a walk around the block this morning. His first since the operation. He did great!! Yahoo.
abaesel: This is what 17 days post cardiac bypass surgery looks like! Happy to be home. Onward and upward! @jbaesel
abaesel: My ofrenda this year honoring, remembering, and loving
abaesel: This couldn't have arrived at a better time. After 2 hurricanes and a husband getting a successful bypass surgery all within 1 months time, I really need a little Louise Penny and Three Pines.
abaesel: My neighbor's tree in the Old Northeast neighborhood in St Pete. Two and a half weeks after Hurricane Milton. Battered a bit but refusing to miss blooming!
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abaesel: Rodney is back up and standing tall and proud. Our neighborhood rhino @rhinooncoffeepot #milton #stpete
abaesel: Jason, Jerry, and me tonight downtown at Sea Salt. Jerry checks in to Bayfront tomorrow for his cardiac adventure!
abaesel: Rhino down. Rodney, our favorite neighborhood rhino, took a tumble during Milton. But thankfully his smart owners had tethered him with a rope so he didn’t go far. He’ll be back, just like our Old Northeast neighborhood. #stpete #miltin @rhinooncoffeepot
abaesel: Still no power at home. But hotel is good. And restaurants are opening up. Late breakfast at Cassis.
abaesel: An oak and two magnolias, sad victims of Milton in south Straub Park in downtown St Pete. 😢
abaesel: We survived Milton...together.
abaesel: Surrounded by hundreds of utility trucks, semis, and gas tankers (supplying gas to all those truck and semis), my wounded, down but not out, much beloved home to Rays Baseball, the Tropicana Dome rises above St Pete. My heart aches to see it in tatters bu
abaesel: Power at home still out so staying another night at the hotel. Having cuban beans rice and pork along with dominoes with my sweetie. #relieved
abaesel: Whose dat? Jack discovered the full length mirror on the hotel room door...in the middle of the night. Had quite the conversation. #milton
abaesel: We've prepped our home as best we can. Took a photo and headed to our hurricane home, the AC hotel in downtown St Pete. Absolutely exhausted. But cats are doing okay and staff was EXTREMELY helpful and cheerful. Now we wait.
abaesel: Took time out during hurricane preparations to drop off our ballots at the Board Of Elections in downtown St Pete. #voteblue
abaesel: Jerry said "poodle." I said "seadragon." What say you?
abaesel: Lunch with my sweetie at Bazille (Nordstrom) at Tampa’s International Mall yesterday. Got in a 1.5 mile walk too.
abaesel: Our mail in ballots arrived yesterday. Yahoo! #pinellascounty
abaesel: Lunch with my sweetie today at @bonu_taverna in downtown St Pete. #stpete
abaesel: Heartfelt love for our city, on the corner of Cordova Blvd and Snell Isle Blvd on Snell Isle.
abaesel: Back to the Y yesterday after the chaos of Hurricane Helene. Onward and uoward.
abaesel: Sharing a sill in the afternoon sun. Jack and Freya.
abaesel: Life at the moment around town in St Pete. Fire trucks rushing to yet another call related to gas odors or electrical fires, signals still out, and trucks hauling away appliances from flooded homes. #helene
abaesel: Standing in a stiff breeze/wind on Coffee Pot Bayou in between rain bands at about 9:30 am. Something wicked this way comes. #stpete #helene
abaesel: A pre-tropical storm/hurricane lunch (serious game of dominoes) at the original @columbiarestaurant in Ybor City today. Great mojito, lechón, and salad "1905."
abaesel: An aperol spritz toast to my sweetheart this afternoon at Sea Salt where we celebrated our anniversary with oysters, Caesar salads and a game of dominos. 😍😍
abaesel: Like a firecracker in the garden. One of my favorite bromeliads.