Bike rides to the Inlet. Weight workouts. Daily tasks. Body for Life. Getting projects done. The last week and a half we’ve kept chugging along steadily. The Body for Life project is taking over our lives, in a good way. Each day starts at six a.m. or shortly thereafter. Four days a week we head …
Mother’s Day 2008 found us at Café du Monde in New Orleans eating beignets and sipping café au lait. We’d left the Lakeview District the previous afternoon with our Couchsurfing host Darryl Goodwin (and his dog Maria), bicycling eighteen miles through New Orleans, taking a ferry across the Mississippi, and spending the night in the …
How it happened is not a big surprise, but Chelsea and I have both gained significant body fat over the last two years; I much more so than Chelsea. Stress contributed greatly – it’s not been an easy several years with the economy having wiped out our income sources – but maybe the fried fish, …
The siren call of our trip is never far from our awareness – it underlies everything we do. Though we find ourselves currently in the midst of other projects, each one of them gets us farther and farther along the way to leaving for seven or more years, knowing that everything is shipshape on the …
One of the very best things about being home is seeing our family; on the road we missed them so much at times it was a palpable ache. Paul and Denise and Chandler My oldest son Paul lives with his wife Denise and son Chandler in Fort Lauderdale. Paul and Denise are extremely busy and …
Life hasn’t been all about work, work, work, though it seems like it most of the time. Over the last three months we did get out of the house a few times, sometimes just for errands. Movies Late in January an old friend of Chelsea’s (a former boyfriend) called and invited us to a movie …
Weather Like the rest of the country, we’ve had our fair share of unusual winter weather. We had an all-time record breaking cold spell in January, and one of the coldest Marches in memory – in fact, it’s been the coldest winter we remember in the ten years we’ve lived here. As if that’s not …
What we thought was “pretty good” in our pool status paled in comparison to the real thing. Yes, we finally got the money organized to get a new dirt catcher and filter. (Check out the before and after photos in the blog. It’s really astonishing.) Combined with two rounds of chlorine; running the pool pump …
Remember I wrote earlier about learning the guitar? I’ve had major progress in that arena. I finally got my guitar properly strung at Marathon Music (they were awesome); they even tuned it for me for free. Once home I dug out my books from the packed boxes and have been teaching myself chords. We’ve been …
My bedroom was originally a renovated garage, with no real closet and bath, so about four years ago I decided to have our rehab guy (he’d rehabbed a house for us in Ft Pierce) put in a cork floor, a real closet, and small bathroom with shower, sink, and toilet. Our guy promised a week-long …
