Sunday, January 5, 2014
Gay Jan-4-14
6:50 AM | 
Posted by
Sharp's Travels
Let’s
see at 6:00 am it is 43 degrees out and I have been invited to go on a motorcycle
with my neighbor Mike T. We are supposed to leave at 10:00 am. Well at 10:00 am
it was 56 degrees and partly sunny. I put on my cold weather gear and headed
out. Mike led me and three of his friends on a nice ride to Sleepy Hollow for
one of their steak dinners. Boy were we surprised when we got there as there
were only about twenty bikes in the parking lot. Usually there are a couple of
hundred bikes. Maybe it was the cool weather that scared them off. Several more
did come before we left. Mike asked me if I would lead the group back as he
didn’t know the way that we took when we went a few weeks ago. It really turned
out to be a good ride and not as cold as I thought it would be. It was near
4:00 pm when we got home and had rode170 miles. Cheri was resting when I got
home and she said that she spent the day sewing. After supper we watched a
couple of movies or I should say Cheri did as I slept through most of them. All
the fresh air today made me tired.
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Gay Jan-3-14
7:03 AM |
Posted by
Sharp's Travels
It
was another cold morning, not sure I wanted to get out and about. We had plans
to be at Larry and Denise’s at 10:00 am. Cheri and Denise went one way shopping
and Larry and I went a different way. Cheri and Denise had to go to the new
Hobby Lobby’s here in Zephyrhills. Boy are they excited about having a Hobby
Lobby here and today is the Grand Opening. Larry and I headed to Harbor Freight
in Lakeland. Larry was looking for some socket extensions and I was looking for
a small pry bar to remove trim. Larry found what he was looking for along with
a couple of other things. I didn’t find what I wanted but did buy a set of
o-rings and a new battery for my drill. We headed back to Zephyrhills and made
a stop at Home Depot. I found the pry bars I was look for and also found a good
deal on a new battery powered drill along with a drill driver. The good thing
about it was it is guaranteed for life, parts, labor, and batteries. Larry and
I both think we should have one, we decided to wait and ponder on it for a
while. We were about ready to leave the store when we got a call from Denise
and Cheri wanted to know where we were, they just got done with Hobby Lobby and
wanted us to meet them back at Larry and Denise’s for lunch. After lunch we played
pinochle. Cheri and I had to learn how to play as it has been 35 years since we
last played and had forgotten how to play. We used to play a lot of it with my
mom and dad. Cheri and Denise whipped Larry and me pretty bad. Cheri and I left
around 4:00 pm and headed to Beall’s as I need to get a new pair of shoes and
they were on sale and I had a 10 dollar coupon to use, save 25 dollars. When we
got home we settled in to have pizza and watch TV.
Friday, January 3, 2014
Gay Jan-2-14
6:56 AM |
Posted by
Sharp's Travels
Cheri
had a fasting lab appointment this morning for her yearly check up; she did a
couple of errands while she was out. When she got home she worked on doing laundry.
I did some more clean up in the backyard along the fence and then worked on the
pavers that I was putting down in front of the back shed. I wasn’t happy with what
I had done so I torn it out and started over. I had a few large pavers; I am
going to use them to frame in the brick pavers which will help hold them in
place. I got the large pavers that I had put in place and needed a few more so
after lunch I went to Lowes to get the additional pavers. I stopped to fill up
the van with gas and Larry called and wanted to know what we were doing. Long
story short, they came over and we played cards this afternoon. Cheri had a
pork roast with potatoes and carrots cooking in the crock pot. So Larry and
Denise stayed for supper and then we finished our card playing after wards. We
tried to watch a little TV after Larry and Denise left, couldn’t stay awake so
we called it a night and hit the hay.
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Gay Jan-1-14
7:27 AM |
Posted by
Sharp's Travels
It
was a cool nasty day with rain and no sun. Of course it was my excuse for not
doing anything today. Cheri is still nursing her cold, think she is a little
better, still doing a lot of coughing. It didn’t stop her from working. She
fixed us chip beef gravy on toast for breakfast. Then she worked in the spare
bedroom finishing putting away things in the closet. Early afternoon she fixed
shrimp scampi for a late dinner, it was really good. After dinner she baked a
cherry pie from scratch, so later this evening we had cherry pie and ice cream.
I spent the day in front of the TV watching movies and football.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Gay Dec-31-13
7:31 AM |
Posted by
Sharp's Travels
As
I write this it hard to believe it is the last day of the year, seems like it
was just yesterday I was in the learning curve to write 2013 and now it is
over. As I look back there has been highs and lows to our year. Cheri had been
suffering with her knee off and on for over a year and this was the year to get
it repaired. She had surgery on it in April and it hasn’t got to be where it
should be and has had trouble with it ever since the surgery. Another low for
us was that we had to give up our full time RVing this year. It was something
we looked forward to for the last eight years, wanted to do it another two or
three years. We felt that we needed to be here to take care of Grandma. The
high for the year was buying a house and making it our home, well we are still
working on the home part but each day we get a little closer to it being our
home. It will be a work in progress for 2014 and on. This morning Cheri is
still not feeling well, doing a lot of coughing right along with me. It seems
like every time she coughs I have to cough an answer to her, which has gone on
all day. We did some more cleaning of things from the sun room. It seems like
we keep moving things around and things that were stored in the shed were
brought into the sun room and now I am taking them back to the shed. The good
thing is that each time we move things there gets to be less of them. I think
after about another 6 or 8 moves there shouldn’t be anything left. It would
have been so much easier to have gotten rid of everything right away but most
things are hard to part with. Cheri and I were pretty much worn out by noon. We
were supposed to have gone out to eat and celebrate the New Year with Mike and
Pam. We had to cancel do to our sickness. We went to bed early and was awaken
at midnight with the fireworks going off, rolled over and went back to sleep.
2014 made it without our help.
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