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. …
With the interwoven challenges of heat and roommates, our daily life continued on. For several weeks during the summer our Internet kept coming and going. When we rely so much on its easy accessibility (research, online bill-paying, bank reconciliations, communicating with others), being without it is very frustrating. After getting totally fed up with frequent …
Having roommates is definitely a new experience for Chelsea and me. Alex grew up in our household, so having him as a quasi-roommate was pretty straightforward. We’ve known him his whole life, and we had worked out the issues of living together. Besides, he’s close family. It’s been a new look at life to awaken …
“I’ll be back again next week, so adios till then.” I should know better than to end a travel journal entry that way. Given the unpredictability of our lives, a week could well turn into a month, or a month into three months. That’s what happened this summer. A few days turned into a week, …
Summer and blooming Summer arrived early this year – May was noticeably warmer than usual, though it didn’t hit horribly unpleasant levels of heat. Somehow though, even with a late/non-existent spring, we’re having a record year for blooming. Remember the pollen carpet we had for weeks? Thankfully that’s been gone for awhile, but everything else …
Getting exercise Life’s been very quiet at the Inlet this last week. The winds finally died, and we’ve had increasingly higher tides, so fishing is non-existent. We’re expecting full-moon high tides on Thursday, which means the tides will likely swamp the seawall. That’s always a sight to see – water in the parking lot, fish …
