I hope you all that were here in Florida for the windy woman’s  (Nichole) visit stayed high and dry and all your property unflooded and intact—-

And I also say–hey Mom Nature can we PLEASE have a quiet, dry and unstormy rest of 2022 and the same for 2023 please

 

 

 

Nicole churns up Lake Monroe in Sanford

 

 

As my readers know my last episode was on the re-opening of the Central Fl. Zoo 

 

(That’ my ticket above by the way)

and then Nichole comes along and flooding the town of Sanford all over again—I haven’t YET found any info on the status of the zoo–other than it is closed thru Friday—but that was done before NIchole visited, so????

 

 

But I have sent an email to the Zoo and hope that they will let me and thus YOU all know.

 

 

Got this reply from Zoo:

In preparation for Tropical Storm Nichole, the Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens will be closed Wednesday, November 9th, through Friday, November 11th.

Our main priority is the safety of our animals, staff, and patrons. Please stay safe!  We are following our protocols, and we are closely monitoring the storm. We will reopen when it is safe to do so.

 

Please watch our social channels for updates.

 

 

OK finally:

Central Florida Zoo reopening after Nicole—

 

ZOO WILL REOPEN ON SATURDAY, 11/12

Get the kids young and old and enjoy a day with all manner of animals (not the kids the zoo occupants).

 

 

 

ASIAN LANTERN FESTIVAL: INTO THE WILD

coming soon.

 

 

 

 

Over 54,00 Square Feet of Fun, Memories, and Enjoyment!:  No museum is quite like the Showmen’s Museum 

Riverview, Florida

There is still plenty to see in Showtown USA (Gibsonton has more nicknames than Sean “”Puff Daddy” Cobb—Oh and from the Diva—oh the address give Riverview as the town on the address.  But evidentally Gibsonwhich is not an actual postal name I guess).  The International Independent Showmen’s Association (IISA), comprised of more than 4,500 members in the outdoor amusement industry has a fantastic museum dedicated to the traveling show:  DIsplays include (this article is from 2017–so check their web site above for current ones) antique working rides such as the American Beauty merry-go-round and the first Ferris wheel in America.  If you want to ogle some “wonders of the world,” there’s a life-sized sideshow exhibit with mannequins in costumes and displays dedicated to legendary performers such as Johann Petursson, “the Viking Giant” who wore size 62 shoes and “the World’s Strangest Married Couple.” which was Al “the Giant” and Jeanie “the Half Girl”  Tornaini (He wa 8 foot 4 inches tall and she was 2 feet, 5 inches tall).  They even have a blackbeaded costume worn by burlesque Idol and cinema starlet Gypsy Rose Lee.  The museum is open Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 5 pm.

Orlando Sentinel Florida Spring Flings  5/14/2017:  Museum:  For Your Amusemnt–Hitorical Gibsonton

 

 

 

 

 

Edward I:  The Hammer of the Scotts (boo–I’m Scottish)

 

Born in the former Palace of Whitehall the same one which the only part remaining is the Banqueting House

 

 

Visiting the Banqueting House

Outside this building another English King died—killed by Parliament not for his ineptitude but for his being unacceptiable to his Puritan Parliament.

 

 

 

 

He married Elanor of Castile in 1251 at

MONASTERY OF SANTA MARIA LA REAL DE LAS HUELGAS (click to get visiting information)

 Pl. Compás, s/n, 09001 Burgos, Spain

This is the main female Cistercian monastery in Spain and head of all those that were installed in the Crown of Castile.

 

 

The real William Wallace—Not that Mel guy

 

 

Scottish Borders History
William Wallace

KIng Edward  is reported to being known for dispensing Good Justice to his people—but while he was working with the English he was also conquering Wales and Scotland

The Scotts —-up above is Wallace. 

He was tried at Westminster Hall     Guildhall Yard, Off Gresham Street, London, Greater London EC2V 5AE England.

 

Plaque: Westminster Hall – William Wallace 

and

below is the memorial near his death site in Smithfield

Smithfield is easily accessible by both bus and rail

 

 

The Elms, Smithfield the Oldest Execution Spot in London

 

 

 

The Coronation Chair

 

  Edward was the first son of Henry III and Eleanor a daughter of the Count of Savoy—He suceeded his father at age 34.  He was crowned at Westminster Abbey-— and he would place this coranation chair here in the abbey and place the Scottish Stone of Scone within its frame work.  Today you can see where he would have been crowned and you can see the chair—but the stone was returned to Scotland at the end of last century.

In Scotland it is:

 

 

 

THE STONE OF DESTINY

Edward was said to be an inch or two over 6′—which is tall even today but in his time we have been taught that it was REALLY TALL.  But new studies are contradicting the fact that the average men and women of earlier ages were normally much smaller.

 

 

STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS: How tall were the people of Medieval England? by Elizabeth Chadwick

He was never the less said to be superior to all other Christian Princes of his time in his practice of Arms, endowed with great strength and welding a sword expertly and with much strength.  A youth with silver blonde hair that later darkened in maturity and  lightened again in his older years to gray (or white?)  He is said to have had a droopy left eye and spoke with a lisp.

 

 

The Eleanor Crosses

 

 

 

Glendalough Tour, County Wicklow, Ireland 2019

 

 

 

 

things to do in fredericksburg, texas

 

 

Texas Ranger Museum & Buckhorn Saloon, Waco, Tx

 

 

 

TEXAS RANGERS HERITAGE CENTER AT FORT MARTIN SCOTT

 

 

8 Famous Texas Rangers

 

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History of the Texas Rangers

 

 

 

 

10 Places Where You Can Still Experience Old Texas

 

Mission Concepcion (San Antonio)

 

Have a Great Weekend—get out there and enjoy life—live it just don’t watch it go by please—-go talk to the animals or walk with the flow—where ever you go stay safe, but sane is up to you.