After breakfast at the apartment, I made the first major grocery trip since being here, and spent about $60 between the Walmart Neighborhood Market and Publix. The Publix has a neat feature where you can place your deli order ahead of time on the Internet, and pick it up at the deli with no waiting. I ordered 1/3 pound each of sliced Boar's Head Tavern Ham and Creamy Havarti cheese. Very cool.
At 3:30 in the afternoon I met my former landlord, Heather Mangan, for drinks and appetizers at a place called "Stillwater" just up the street on McGregor, per her suggestion. Very nice place, with 37 different beers on tap. We each had a glass of "Rivertown Home Game," a lager brewed in Export, Pa. And we each had a 3 flight sampler with another Rivertown, along with with a cider beer and a pumpkin ale. For apps, we had fried green beans (her choice), and spicy crab rolls (my choice). Everyone was very yummy. We spent about and hour and a half together catching up. She owns two rental properties, in addition to flipping one house. She has her real estate license in Florida, but her main job now is organizing "Rich Dad Poor Dad" seminars and coaching sessions across the United States. It involves a lot of travel, and she's a big believer in the "system" (I know nothing about it other than I've heard of -- but not read -- the book). Anyway, she seems to like it. She also gave me the scoop on her two rentals as far as the current tenants and their renewal dates in case we can work something out, and of course depending on how well things turn out with my place on Kings Point Drive. She also wants me to tour her boyfriend's distillery in Cape Coral, "Wicked Dolphin Rum Distillery," of which he is a partner, along with his aunt, who emigrated to the U.S. from Poland after selling her women's accessory business over there for $30 million. I said I would check it out.
The evening was pretty quiet, spent watching TV and then off to bed.
Friday Nov. 14
The big news of the day is I bought two pieces of furniture for the apartment: A sofa sleeper, and a table/chairs for the dining area:
I got both pieces at the Fleamasters Flea Market here in Fort Myers. The sofa was $100, and the table/chairs set was $90, and I paid a couple of guys from the flea market $30 to deliver all the pieces. So $220 total. The table set is cast iron with a glass top. I cannot find a name on the sofa, so assume it's from some generic furniture outlet, but it's in very good shape and does not smell of smoke or any other odors. I think both will serve their purpose very well.
The day started out at the Lakes Park Friday farmer's market, where I had something called egg and bacon Poppkas. Bacon pieces are fused into Beignet batter on a mini muffin type griddle. You get four of those, and then those are covered with an order of scrambled eggs. I had that with a banana nut muffin, a huge Florida naval orange, and coffee. There was a guy there selling grass-fed beef, so I bought a bone-in ribeye steak from him and brought it home to cook later.
Then I headed over to the flea market and in addition to the furniture bought a book from "Chris the Book Guy" who I remembered from my last trip here. Randy the bike guy was also there, but seemed to be in foul mood today, so I did not buy a bicycle from him today. I figured I would come back when he is in a little better humor, but I don't know if that's possible because he didn't look too good, i.e., looks like he's having health problems.
Anyway, I'm back at the apartment. Abby has already made herself at home on the sofa and is sleeping on it. It's nice to have a little furniture. The place is starting to look more like a home.
Bruce
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