May 2016, the anticipation for summer on the banks was in full swing. The feeling of coming home to the strip of land you grew up on is quite unexplainable. Yes, change happens. There are more rental homes, more stores, and more people. However, you still see the same old faces day to day. Lives […]
Archive | May 13, 2017
Our Life in Cortez, Florida
As winter passed, real heat came back quick, and the busy season abruptly slowed down. February and March 2016 we enjoyed visits from my mother and also Claire’s parents and siblings. This is exactly why we chose to trailer our home up from Mexico to Texas, and sail it to Florida. Now being this […]
Day Trip: Florida East Coast
With the winter and holidays of 2015 behind us, we were working through the busy snowbird season on Longboat Key. My father, Michael Sr. came to visit for a while in January. Our chocolate siamese Comida China took off for exactly one month. Frail and withered, but thankful for her return. We believe she was […]
Emerald Antoinette Cison – November 19, 2015
Emerald Antoinette Cison, my niece, was welcomed into this world. My sister Christina and brother-in-law Johnny honored myself to be her Godfather. While living aboard Splendid Isolation on the Gulf Coast of Florida. I took off work December 4-7 and drove the drive northward for her baptism. Claire and myself made another fortunate return to […]