Team Leip Travels

11 April 2026 Sanford: Pictures from the Past!

I saw some fun stuff in the morning while walking Macy. Birds, bikes, bear sign and holes in the fence. Laura grabbed some roasted chickens and the Griffin family came over for dinner. Later in the evening we pulled out a box of pictures that Lindsay brought with her and we found some doozies!

Is the black bear back?

Large clumps of black fur might indicate that the bears are around

Scissor-tail kite

A peloton of bike riders

Limpkin

One hot mamma!

Baby Lindsay

High School Leslie

The Abbot boys

Piles and piles of pictures

A fancy perm

Fritz and a half

Macy is keeping us safe

In Laura's old yearbook I found this sinister looking teacher

Who else would be head of the computer club in 1974? Jene Parrotte is his name and his alter ego is Jeff Parrotte!

Here he is again!

Lindsay is having a day

But Matt is cool as a cucumber

Lindsay trying on this dress from Max and Chas's wedding

It does not fit. We have determined that it must have been Vera's dress

Jaxon looking hipper every day

It has been 3 years and 307 days since we began our Migration

10 April 2026 Sanford: The Playoffs for Lake Mary Lacrosse

The first round of the district lacrosse playoffs began. Spoiler alert, they won 11-0 in a blow out. Lake Mary was ranked toward the top so the first couple of opponents were not much competition

We had to pick up Zach at his school

Across the street was a cricket game

A different kind of bowling. the pitchers in Cricket are called bowlers

Let the games begin

Young man self isolating. perhaps it was a personal hygiene issue

Penalty

Zach taking pictures

Cooper is on the field

Penalties aplenty

Cooper's main job is defense at the faceoff

Holding the long stick

Get in there!

It almost looks like there is a doughnut reward for getting penalized

3-0

5-0

8-0

10-0 are you seeing the pattern?

That is a winner

Worn out but happy

It has been 3 years and 306 days since we began our Migration

8 April 2026 Sanford: Off to Leesburg to the Store

Macy is our co-pilot for the drive. It took us 40 minutes to drive there with a stop at the QT for a fountain diet coke for Laura. Then we were off to Revolve and Sproutfitters. Upon our arrival we dove right in as "hangers." This job entailed finding the right hanger out of 8 different hanger styles for the Sproutfitter clothes and and the right hanger out of three styles for the Revolve clothes. During breaks we ran some errands, a hair cut for Leslie and mailing an Amazon return for me. We had Pub-subs for lunch put in our first day of "work" in years.

Rebranding is overdue for this river

The osprey chick had its first flight and was very vocal about it

This shopping center has golf cart parking

More birds in Leesburg

A vulture is waiting for me to drop my pub-sub

It has been 3 years and 304 days since we began our Migration

5 April 2026 Sanford: Easter Egg Hunt #2

After a successful egg hunt the previous day, we headed over to Ryan and Stephanie's for another round of egg hunting. This time we added a hunt for the adults too. Everyone got into it so there were lots of eggs for the adults to find as well. We set it up so that there were numbers inside the egg that matched packages on the pool table, that gave us much more latitude on the prizes. Of course there was a fantastic meal of smoked ribs, chicken wings and smoked turkey with all the sides and goodies one would expect. The food was great, then we "hid" the multitude of eggs for the kids to find. Candy, charms, amulets, squishies and more were nestled inside the plastic eggs only to be freed by the kid who found the egg.