Cold, cold, cold Our glorious riding weather of November came to a screeching halt with the onset of severe cold spells in December. This is southeast Florida, land of the warm, warm, warm weather, yet in mid-December we had a few spells of below freezing cold. On a few memorable days the temperatures hit twenty-eight …
We’ve had a tremendously good time with our early morning rides. Every day something fun happens, it seems. Whether it’s someone we meet or something we see, it’s never dull. Back in mid-November, just a day or so after I had last written, we were still doing our “later” rides, leaving at seven a.m. or …
We finished our twelve-week Body for Life program on Christmas Eve, with wonderful results. I was definitely “the biggest loser” – I needed the biggest results and I got them. My loss was thirty pounds, twenty five inches, and over ten percent body fat. Chelsea did well, too. She lost four pounds, sixteen inches, and …
Eight months. Eight incredible months it’s been since we last wrote. How is it possible for time to disappear so easily? I have such good intentions about writing. I list my projects for the day, and somehow, in my deep desire to get the other projects done, writing the journals drops to the bottom of …
Chelsea and I both love sunrise. The world is so calm and quiet, the air is fresher and cooler, the winds are calmer, there’s the promise a new day brings. We love being up before the birds and watching them awaken; we love the gorgeous pink and gold and orange colors of the sunrise as …
We’ve continued downsizing – at times it feels as though it will never end. We have discovered it to be a process, rather than a finite event or project, as we never dreamed when this all started how much we would really be letting go. We’ve gone from a crowded three-bedroom house and shed to …
Back in late April we started the Body for Life program, a combination of a weight workout program, a specific cardio program and an eating plan, with a specific twelve week process. It took awhile to get up and running – we had to start from scratch to develop a two-week meal plan and recipes, …
The alarm goes off at 5:55 a.m. The room is so pitch black we want to slide back into bed again; we can’t think about it or we won’t go. We get up and methodically start getting ready. Riding clothes on, contacts in, sunscreen on, hair brushed and pulled back, quickly munch a rice-cake with …
Movies As soon as we first saw Shrek in 2001, it became a family favorite – the kids gave the DVD to me for Christmas that year, under particularly heart-tugging and memorable circumstances. Naturally we had to see the follow-ups each year they came out – in fact, Alex treated Chelsea and me to the …
Driver’s license renewals are always a major problem here in South Florida. The system in person is abominably slow and inefficient. In 2006 I renewed my license online and had Chelsea send it to me in Washington. In 2009, Chelsea renewed hers online from Louisiana, picking it up when she returned home later that year. …
