Forty-One Years In And I Think It's Just Getting Better All The Time

Our anniversary started out with a lizard. Not this one, but I did take that picture this morning. I have noticed an entirely new species of lizards from anything I've ever seen here or anywhere else in Florida. I believe I have identified it as a Peter's agama which is thriving here in south Florida and will probably be heading north soon, as these critters tend to do. They are native to Africa and were introduced by the release of pet agamas and that's how pythons and iguanas and many other invasive species have found their way here and you know that includes plant species too. 

But the lizard that I came here to talk about is one that somehow found its way into a dip net and could not get out. These guys are very scaly and he couldn't back out. So of course, Mr. Moon had to rescue it. 

He cut the poor thing free, ruining the net in the process and then the little fucker ran like crazy towards a plant pot at the edge of the pool and DID NOT EVEN SAY THANK YOU! 
What're you gonna do? 

We decided to go to Vero and have an anniversary lunch at the Ocean Grill and so we did. It was pretty perfect. We got seats at the bar where we could watch the ocean which was very rough with the waves coming in as rollers so strong the sand was being tossed up with them.  

That is not me in that picture. I was the one taking the picture. 
More photos of what the Atlantic looked like. 

Remember when I said that sometimes the water comes all the way up to the pilings? 
Yeah. Like that. 

The bartender lady remembered us from two or three years ago. I am not kidding. This restaurant has been in business for eighty years and they know what they're doing. I probably went there for the first time when I was about seven or eight which means that the place was only about fifteen or so years old which makes me feel ancient and honestly, it looks about the same now as it did in my memory on that first visit we took on a Mother's Day. 
Sigh.
Anyway, we got Bloody Mary's and I need to start making virgin Bloodies just for the taste. My god but they were delicious. We decided to just have lunch at the bar, which we did, and Glen had snapper and I had a crab cake and we shared some Maryland fried oysters which were some of the best fried oysters I've ever had and I have had a lot of very, very good fried oysters. 

Another Ocean Grill anniversary meal to remember. 

Before we left though, I took these pictures:

You see that table? It is made from ONE piece of mahogany. I feel so sorry for the tree that it was made from but that was a long time ago and there is nothing I can do about it now except be in awe and wonder. And those ladies were having a grand time. 

Me in the restroom, obviously. I wanted to take a picture with the doors in the background because they are so incredibly cool, paintings from the fifties which were painted directly on the stall doors at that time. 
I am so old I remember that. 
However, just as I was taking the picture, a lady came out of a stall 

behind me.

Oh well. You may note I was wearing eye make-up and had my hair down. I had done nothing, however, to my hair except to wash it and get on with my life. 
Which is fairly obvious.

And the rest of the day has been sweet too. Sunset wasn't great but Glen finally took my advice and bought some shrimp to use as bait. That's what my grandfather did and it worked then for catching all sorts of fish. Glen's been using these fancy lures all the years we've been coming down here together and has never caught a damn thing. 

Tonight he caught a snook and two little redfish. I know what we're having for supper tomorrow. Tonight it will be leftovers. 

The man I love doing what he loves in the place I love and we are together and loving each other. 
Gosh, he's handsome. 

I could not ask for a better anniversary. 

Love...Ms. Moon