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Sunday, March 18, 2012
Gay Mar-17-12
7:00 AM | 
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Today was my big play day. At 9:00 am Larry & Denise, Bud, Mike & Pam with their two grandchildren, Cheri and I headed for the Mulberry airport for my tandem jump. I had a 10:00 am appointment and we arrived at 9:45 am, they got me suited up and went through a few things with me and the video guy (Robert) started taking pictures and video. By 10:10 am we were on the plane headed up to 13,500 feet. George (my tandem instructor) hooked us together and we were soon on our way out of the plane and on our way down. What a thrill it was and I am ready to do it again someday. Afterwards Bud, Mike & Pam with the grandchildren left and we waited for and watched my video which turned out good. Denise also took around 300 pictures. So I have a lot of good pictures to go through to make up an album. When I get some spare time I will put them together and post them. After we got done at the airport we headed to Lakeland to drop off Cheri’s sewing machine. A spring clip had fallen out of it and she wants to get it taken care of as she has a quilting class that she is taking next Saturday and wants to be sure the sewing machine is going to work. Then Larry, Denise, Cheri and I road over to the Harley dealer as Larry wanted to buy a couple of pieces of chrome for is bike. Cheri bought herself a Harley long sleeve t shirt. Then it was time to head over to Applebee’s for a late lunch. Larry had looked at chrome bolt caps for his bike and thought that they were too much at the Harley dealer. A guy told him about getting them at the big truck chrome store up by Ocala. So back on the bikes and the way we went. It was 4:30 pm when we got there. Larry found most of what he was looking for and I also bought some chrome bolt caps for the head bolts on my bike. It was near 5:30 pm before we got back on the road heading for home. We made one more stop in Dade City for an ice cream cone. We were going to ride on down to Plant City for the car show but it would have been too late, so we just headed for home. It was after 7:00 pm and 185 miles later when we got home. Larry and Denise downloaded the picture she took on their computer and then came up with their computer and burned a DVD of all the pictures she took today of my jump. We got out our digital picture frame, plugged in her camera card and watched the pictures while we played a game of Hand, Knee and Foot. It was a fun and exciting day for me.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Gay Mar-16-12
6:36 AM |
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Cheri and I went up to Paul and Bev’s this morning. I helped Paul take is scooter apart and get it loaded in the truck and ready for them to leave on Sunday or Monday for home back in Ontario. It is an old 1953Cushman Eagle. We had to take the front fork off in order for it to lie down in the back of the truck. Bev and Cheri visited while we were working on the scooter. After I got my tools put away Lloyd came over to show me is new video camera that he got to put on his model airplane. He should be able to take some neat videos. Paul also stopped by to thank me for helping him. Cheri worked on one of her quilt project this afternoon. I did some internet searching and then sat and read for a while and sorted out the information I picked up at Bike week. Larry and Denise came up around 4:00 pm and we visited and play a couple of games of Hand, Knee and Foot. We each won a game so we were all winners. We had planned on going for a motorcycle ride today but helping Paul with his scooter changed our plans. There will always be another day for motorcycle riding but maybe not a day to help a friend. It was another wonderful day in the neighborhood that God made for us.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Gay Mar-15-12
7:36 AM |
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After we got going this morning we went downtown to check on our new mattress and we should be getting it tomorrow or Monday. Then we made a stop at the auto parts store to pick up a brake light bulb for Grandma’s van, then over to Wal-Mart to get groceries. After we got home Larry came up and helped me get our single wheel trailer out of storage and put together. Our church is having a yard sale in a couple of weeks and I am going to donate it to the church. Cheri did some house cleaning and laundry. This afternoon we went for a motorcycle ride with Larry and Denise down to Lakeland. Larry wanted to check on getting new house batteries for their motor home. Then we rode over to where Cheri had bought her sewing machine to get a darning foot and some more bobbins. As we headed for home we stopped at McDonalds for ice cream. We visited there for a while and then Larry and I decided we wanted to stop at Harbor Freight and the girls said we could drop them off at Jo-Ann Fabrics. While Larry and I were in Harbor Freight it started to rain, so we had to do more shopping until it quit. The rain lasted only about 30 minutes and we were on our way to pick up the girls. It was near 7:30 pm and a 100 miles later before we got home. I felt good about the day as we got some work done and a motorcycle ride in.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Gay Mar-14-12
7:35 AM |
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I had a ride set up with the guys today that didn’t happen. I got a call from Bud this morning and they had a water line under the sink break and have water all over and so he wasn’t going to be able to go, Gary had to do some roof work on their park model. I did know that John wasn’t going but don’t remember what the reason was. Long story short I called Larry and told him the news and we decided to take Cheri and Denise to a quilt store in Crystal River that they hadn’t been to before. The nice thing about it was the Harley dealer was just down the road from the quilt store. So we dropped the girls off at the quilt store and we rode over to the Harley dealer, so we all got our fix for the day. After a couple of hours we went back and picked up the girls and then stopped just down the street at Applebee’s for late lunch and early supper. It was after 5:00 pm and a 150 miles later when we arrived home. At 6:40 pm we headed for our Life Group gathering. It was a great evening talking about the gift that God gave us and how we use it to help other people and to please God. After the gathering we had a wonderful dessert of bread pudding that Michele made. It was a beautiful day that God made for us to spend time with close friends and learn about the gift he has presented us.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Gay Mar-13-12
7:17 AM |
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We were up at 5:00 am getting ready to leave for Daytona at 8:00 am with Larry and Denise. We are going to spend the day at Bike Week. It is the first time for us and probably wouldn’t have gone if it weren’t for Larry and Denise. Larry’s brother Frank and his wife Jane also went with us. I lead going over and we made a couple of stops on the way and arrived at the Daytona race track around 11:00 am. We took in all the vendors; seeing many new things that we haven’t seen before. Sure was a lot of fun checking out the new toys. Larry checked on a new tire for Denise’s bike and found a good deal so while it was being installed the six up us went for supper at Ruby Tuesday which was just across the highway. After supper Frank, Jane, Cheri and I headed downtown and Larry and Denise went back to wait for the tire to be installed. After we were downtown for a while Denise called us and said the bike was done and wanted to know where we were. I gave them directions and we waited for 45 minutes and finally Denise called again and we were in a different location then Larry thought we were. We finally got together near the Harley dealer. Jane wasn’t feeling well so they headed on home. The rest of us spent some time checking some of the vendor’s downtown. We still hadn’t been down on the beach strip where a lot of the action was going on, it was already near 7:00 pm and thought we should head for home. It was a long ride home and did make a couple of stops along the way and arrived home a little pass 10:00 pm. It was a fun filled day and we put on 255 miles. As soon as we got home we crawled into bed to dream about all the new things that would be nice to have someday. I have uploaded pictures of the day, click on the link http://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravels then click on album: Bike Week 2012.
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