Hello all out there!
Would like to with all
Happy Holidays!
Enjoy and safe travels.

Back to work

Ugh back to work after a very long vacation and holiday.  Monday is going very slow.....

Adjusting the treadmill

We have a Precor 9.31 tread mill. There has been a series of errors on the thing.  Error 27 which is an over current error.  Now I'm a big guy but I'm below the max load of this thing.  Me and Mrs adjust the belt to stay in the middle of the rollers and we loosen the tension of the belt a little bit. The belt had been put on with a lot of tension. The belt is not slipping when we walk on it and the Mrs can run and have no problems.  We lubed the deck just to be sure.  It seemed to work fine this morning.

More workouts.

Did an other hour of workouts today.  That make 3 workouts in 4 days.  Not too bad. now just have to keep working at it....

Pizza TIme....

M and I had Marj and Roy over for the New Year and pizza yesterday.   We made homemade pizza. Margaretta and garlic and oil varieties.  Marj brought over some homemade toffee.  All this food is stressing the new found workouts.

Happy New Year out there!!  Me and the Mrs stayed at home and celebrated.  Earlier in the day we put together our culinary skills and made ravioli pies. Small ravioli size pies made with pie crust and filled with jam.  

Workout.....

After a nice coffee yesterday at Starbucks I went to the local Korean supermarket for some fresh veggies. Planned a nice dinner of baby bok choy.   I hit the exercise bike and the treadmill for an hour when I got back. Got a good sweat on and think I'll be able to go again tomorrow.

Back Home...

Ok we are back home and starting to get back into the swing of things....  Marilyn at work. Me I sitting at at a Starbucks having coffee...  Pondering the imponderables....Also, delaying the moment I am going to jump on the exercise bike.

 --Rico

Breakfast in O'Fallon

Blog resurection ???

Should we restart the blog?

--Rico
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Marilyn runs first 5k

Went to the Abington June fete 5k. Marilyn has been training to run the 5k for a while now. She had a great run. I went to cheer her on and ended up walking the course. Which was great because I won a lottery of numbers and got a stuffed bear which I gave to Marilyn.  First 5k and teddy bear great day!

RC club at airport open house

I went with the Bucks County Radio Control club to the Doylestown airport open hose. My friend Joe is part of the pilots association so we go there and have a static display of our models to support him. It was a good time and we had a demonstration pilot, Nathan. It was a good day the airport guy had a good time and so did we.

Prius Nice BUT.....

Marilyn and I saw the Plug in Prius, the Prius c, Prius v and the regular Prius.  They seemed very nice and we dearly wanted to take one of them home. BUT, I was really not convinced that we need a car at this time. So we are going to save our pennies for a while yet.

Going to look at a Prius Plug in Tonight

We are looking to replace Marilyn's Honda with a plug in Prius. The car had an 11 mile range on batteries and the train station is 3 miles away. we may not have to gas it up for a long while.

Out for walk...

Did my 3 mile walk this afternoon. Marilyn went to the Ballet with Meg.

Blog Vacation

Gee that was a nice blog vacation! Let me try and put some more info in a timely manner.

SailNet Raft Up

Marilyn and I have been hanging around an internet sailing forum. We have been talking to a number of people on the site that are in the Chesapeake Bay area. We have met a few people and they have been fun to talk to. This weekend we got together and rafted up at the Magothy River we a bunch. We wanted to sail Saturday from Rock Hall. The weather was a bit iffy. So we stayed at the dock for a few hours. Ann had the inflatable kayak in the cove this time. She and Marilyn and Barbra were paddling away in out into the open water. The weather opened a window and we headed out. No wind so we had to motor. Halfway across we hit a debris field. Logs, grass, branches and all manner of garbage. We went slowly thru it only to hit a denser field in the entrance to the Magothy. We had to take the engine out of gear and float thru the field. We rafted up with Chris and Eileen, Dan and Jaye and Dave. We talked and then it rained.. Just splashed us pretty good.  It was short enough for Marilyn to see a rainbow. Snacks were prepared and brought over the Cinderella ( Dan and Jaye's Boat ) and we talked and ate thru the evening.  Sunday we all had coffee and the conversations started again. We then did boat tours. Looking at each others boats and admiring how all the owners had made themselves a home. We broke anchor and had to brave the debris field again. The debris field is caused by the opening of gates on the Conowingo Dam. The flood water from Irene and Lee mixed with all this junk and is washing it down the Bay. Luckily it did not cause any damage and we got back to the slip a bit slowly

Rain Rain and more rain......

When we left the boat this weekend, actually Tuesday it was in a torrential rain storm. Got drenched loading the car in a lull. Yesterday morning it was still raining. It let up in the afternoon, but last night ho-boy! With the flooding the trains are not running and the Turnpike entrances are closed. Quite a mess.

Measured 7.53 inches of rain in this storm. That's more that hurricane Irene.

But so far the basement is dry. :)

Lazy Labor Day Weekend.

Woke up in Swan Creek. Which is good because that is where we anchored! Would be more exciting if we anchored some where else. Spent a lazy morning having coffee and watching the time go by there. Motored back to the slip and we jumped into the pool. You have to jump in the pool Memorial Day, July 4th and Labor day. No more till next year. Found the backup battery in the boat was dry, almost dead. Added water to it. See if it will revive at least till next spring.

We had 50th wedding anniversary here on Friday. Al and Ann celebrated 50 years married. The porch was filled with well wishers.

Marilyn and I met another Sailnet couple. Dave and Janet stopped in Rock Hall as part of there bay tour and we vistied their boat at Rock Hall Landing. They seemed like an nice pair and we did not keep them long as they were eager to continue the trip north on the spinnakar. We may raft up with a bunch of SailNet people next week if the weather holds out.

In Swan Creek

Spent most of Saturday cleaning up and putting things away that we
tied the boat down with for the storm.

We then went out for a day sail. It was a nice wind from the south
about 8 kts. We dropped the hook in Swan Creek for the night.
--Rico
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