Sharp's Travels

No rain today and a very nice day with a high of 70 degrees. It was a little cool for the morning walk at 47 degrees. I called Bud this morning to see if he wanted to go for a motorcycle ride today. He said let’s do it and so we headed out to New Port Richey. We stopped at the Harley dealer where Bud found a different seat for his bike. He plans on ordering it when he gets back up north this spring. From there we headed north along the coast and stopped at a Burger King for lunch. Then farther north to Bayport which was right on the water. We thought it was going to be a nice little town, turned out to be a small park with a fishing pier and a few houses. Then it was time to head home by way of all the back roads we could find. It was a 136 mile ride. We arrived home around 4:00 pm. Cheri met me at the door and said that her quilt was done and wanted to go and get it. So we jumped in the truck and off we go to Dade City. The quilt turned out very nice. Now Cheri has to work on the binding. I will post some pictures of it when she gets the binding on. When we did our evening walk we stopped by Grandma’s and plugged in the new heart monitor that she has to wear for three days. We plan on starting that tomorrow. We also stopped to see Ken & Eileen but they weren’t home.

It was raining when we got up this morning so we didn’t get our morning walk done. I took Cheri over to Orlando to shop at the Coldwater Creek Outlet store. It is an all lady’s clothing store. While she was there I went across the highway to the Bass Pro Shop. It was fun just looking around at all the things that they have for sale. I did buy a pair of New Balance 608 shoes that were on sale for $39.00. I was on my way back to Coldwater Creek when I got a call from Cheri saying she was done. I was surprised that she was done shopping already. I even brought along my book to read while I waited for her. She said she didn’t find anything she wanted. So we headed for home and arrived around 2:30 pm. Cheri fixed a late lunch which turned out to be an early supper of her left over pulled pork from yesterday. I watched the last quarter of the NASCAR Race while Cheri read. Around 4:30 pm we took an early evening walk. We stopped by to see how Grandma was doing. Then we saw Ken & Eileen at the post office. So it was around 5:30 pm before we got home.

After church we took the long way home so we could stop at a road side stand that does barbeque smoked ribs, pulled pork and chicken. Grandma got the chicken dinner, Cheri got the pulled pork and I got the ribs. We took the dinners back to Grandma’s place to eat. It sure was good. We didn’t get a chance to have any of the road side food last year. We remembered how good it was from two years ago. Around 1:00 pm Cheri and I headed out in the rain to Lowe’s to get some chalking for the shower and then to Wal-Mart for a few things. When we got home I went to work on the shower. We had a small leak around the base of the shower stall. As it turned out I had to remove all the old chalking. The small quick job turned out to be a three hour job. Well I hope the problem is solved. Then we settled in to watch the NASCAR Race only to find out that it had been rained out. We tried to watch another show we had recorded, that didn’t work as we both took a nap. Hey it was raining out and the sound of the rain on the roof just put us to sleep. It did quit raining long enough so we could do our evening walk. We stopped by Ken & Eileen’s to make sure they were OK. Then home for a couple of games of Five Crown that Cheri won. Neither of us was hungry from our big dinner so we ended up having strawberry short cake for supper. After we got in bed it started raining again.

It was foggy with heavy dew this morning when we walked so after our morning walk I went to work and washed the 5th wheel. I figured it would be a good time to do as everything was wet and it would be easier to clean. I got done around 11:00 am. Cheri went over to Grandma’s to get her fitted with the heart monitor that she has to wear for three days. When I got there Cheri had everything done and was waiting until 12:00 pm so we could call the place that does the monitoring. Well after several tries it wouldn’t work. So we have to send it back and wait for them to send us another one. This afternoon we left at 2:15 pm to take Ron to the airport in St Petersburg. There was a lot of traffic but it move along without any problems. We were back home by 4:30 pm. I got the grill out and did some New York Strip steaks. Cheri fixed some baked potatoes to go along with the steak and strawberry shortcake for dessert. After supper we headed down town to the car show. It was very nice and saw some cars we had never seen before. We were back home by 8:00 pm and settled in for an evening of TV. After the fog burned off this morning it got up to 78 degrees with a lot of sun.

Things are pretty wet around here this morning from the rain last night. I was going to put the new rock guard on the 5th wheel but the ground was too wet to be crawling around under the trailer. So I got out the backup camera monitor and put it in the truck getting ready for the summer trip. I am trying to figure out why the picture isn’t stable when viewing it on the monitor. I miss around with it for a couple of hours. I think I need to relocate the antennas on the 5th wheel and the truck. So now I need to get an extension cable for the truck antenna. Cheri did her house cleaning and a load of laundry. Ken, Eileen and Ron stopped over for a short visit. Ron wanted to see what time we had to leave for the airport tomorrow. Hard to believe Ron has been here two weeks. We had Dean & Betty over this evening to play dominos. It was a very enjoyable evening. The weather this morning was overcast but late morning the sun came out and had a very nice day with a high of 78 degrees.