TRR, Dade City, Florida
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Sunny, 80 F
Amazing weather!
Sunny and warm again! Our field trip today was to
Brookville for supplies for the Garden Club coffee booth at the park’s block
sale on Friday. We stopped at Sam’s Club, Publix, and a dollar store. I spotted
Walmart and many small plazas along the way---a version of Peach Street here. B1 would be highly amused that Poppy happily drove
his sister around through the traffic and all the stores without one complaint.
J
While we were
out we had lunch at Buffet City, a Chinese buffet restaurant. In Erie I do not
do Chinese buffets, but this one was clean and the food was very good. Our fortune
cookies told us our lucky numbers, so we all decided to play the Powerball at Publix and
use those lucky numbers for our picks. I have never bought a Powerball ticket
on my own, but it was easy. The PB is up to $400 million today.
Tonight we went
to a concert at the main community center, “Link Union.” Link Union is a musical
family that stays at TRR when they are performing in Florida. Tonight’s show was filmed for A & E, from
what I understand. What a musical
family!
There are 4
brothers, aged 14 to 26, their sister, about 25, the mother, the oldest
brother’s wife, and the father. The young couple has a darling 1 ½ year old
daughter. The musical talent goes back 6 generations, originally from Missouri.
When the children in this family (surname Link) were very young, the
grandmother and mother taught them the piano. The children started picking up
other instruments so the mother took them to perform at nursing homes. Then
churches started asking them to perform, as well as fairs and other venues. Now
they perform year round across the U.S. and Canada.
Instruments
included violin, cello, electric guitar, guitar, banjo, recorder, keyboard, and
mandolin. They started with Elvis, then country, Johnny Cash, bluegrass,
Celtic, and more. They played my favorite, Ashokan
Farewell. Others: Devil Goes Down to
Georgia, Dueling Banjos, Dixie,
two hours of delightful music. www.linkunion.com
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