homemade margherita pizza with alissa's first-ever attempted homemade pizza crust! yahoos! making crust was the ultimate challenge to see if alissa could graduate to baking bread. it was such a success, mike requested the homemade pizza again the very next night!
this lemon water is happy to be here! ice water with a lemon wedge has been our signature refreshment since being out here, mmmmm - nothing else quenches the thirst quite like this on humid days
yay, we have edible bread! alissa overcame the scariness of the leavening agent, yeast, with triumph. my, how lovely those loaves turned out!
mmmm, nothing beats a slice of fresh, warm, homemade bread! next feat: introducing grains for specialty breads
AND THEN SOME:
last weekend alissa raced in a half marathon in jacksonville - it was the inaugural distance race for the 'hope for the warriors' cause, which supports soldiers who were injured while fighting in the war. what better cause to run for? mike and shirley were her peppy cheering squad!
sand dunes alongside our beach access. quite the tranquil vista.
partial panorama of the coast
mike enjoying a dip in the ocean. ask him if his toes turned into raisins...the water temp is now in the low 70s!
finally, a snapshot of a jellyfish! we see these marine coelenterates almost daily on the beach. apparently the ones with a reddish lining are the stinging types
shirley checking out another jellyfish (non-stinging)
a puffer fish! alissa and her friend liz spotted 8 puffers one day! last weekend on a long beach walk, mike and alissa came across 9 beached baby sharks (or a different species of shark) before also catching sight of a 6-foot long shark (!!!) in an inlet. it had been sliced open for whatever reason, but it still was a remarkable sight. and just this morning, alissa and shirley watched as a local fisherman accidentally caught a shark (3-footer) on his line from ashore and was trying to coax it back into the water. you don't see that every day!
?? someone explain this, please
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