It’s not what you think! Neither Judy or I have suffered any injury. I am writing about a damaged rotator cuff on the TV antenna. You see in an RV you have to have an antenna that folds flat against the roof when you travel. A couple days ago we were preparing move on a chilly morning. The antenna was frozen solid. I returned periodically to try moving it as we worked through our pre-flight check list. At long last I put a little more muscle into trying to move it, and I broke it. I had to get the cold aluminum ladder out and climb on the icy roof and rotate it into the proper alignment for lowering by hand.
Rotator Cuff:
December 8, 2008
The Ant Wars
September 28, 2008
This sounds like the title to a sci-fi horror flick. Our most recent invasion of alien species started about a week ago. We moved into a parking site at the Gilroy Elks lodge on Thursday, September 18th. The first day was uneventful. We visited with our son, Glen, and his family. On Friday, however, I set up the reverse osmosis gear and began to fill our water tank. When we returned from Glen’s place that evening we were greeted by something on the order of ten thousand teeny tiny sugar ants marching across the floor. The ants go marching two by two, Hurrah! Hurrah! Then three by three and four by four you get the idea. We grabbed the vacuum hose and started sucking them up, five by five, six by six still they came, seven by seven, eight by eight
Hiking
September 8, 2008
Another weekend and yet another mode of transportation. This time it was by foot. Now back on October 24, 2005 I did a blog on “Walk in the Icky Woods” so I can’t do that again. This walk was with granddaughter, Georgia so that is different. Now Georgia is almost two (three more days) so she did very little walking. Fortunately we had our daughter, Renee along although it pains me to admit it, she did most of the packing and I only gave her occasional breaks.
Topock Gorge
February 1, 2008
Judy and I are visiting Sonja and Jack in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Lake Havasu is part of the Colorado River between Davis Dam and Parker Dam, a distance of about 83 miles on the river. Today we boated about 20 miles of the lake and the river in Topock Gorge in Jack’s pontoon boat.
Thanksgiving:
November 22, 2007
We are wishing you a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday. Thanksgiving is about families, and this year we are spending the holiday with our daughter, Renee and her family Neil and Georgia Ann. Read More
Full Circle:
August 18, 2007
Well it has been almost a three week blog dry spell since we left Whitehorse in Yukon Territory. In June we traveled up the Alaska Highway from Prince George through Dawson Creek, Fort Nelson, Watson Lake and then to Whitehorse. In August we returned on the Cassiar Highway. Read More
Denali:
June 28, 2007
Question: Why would anyone get up early to get on a bus at about 8 am and spend all day to drive 182 miles only to get back to the same spot twelve hours later?
Answer: To visit Denali – the National Park; the Mountain; the wildlife: And see them we did. Wow! Read More
The Wild Life
June 15, 2007
The best time to observe the “Wild Life” along the Alaska Highway is early morning. We made the effort this morning and were rolling by 7:30. During the day we crossed the summit of the Canadian Rockies at 4,250 feet. We pulled some nine percent grades, and although the highway was narrow and without shoulders we were able to drive on smooth paved roads with only an occasional rough spot, and these were always well marked. We have been cruising at about 50 mph in these mountains. Perhaps just a tad slower on the nine percent grades. Read More
Give a Hoot
March 4, 2007
We have started migrating this week. We are getting into the so called “Big Bend” portion of Texas. We stopped off and visited the Caverns of Sonora and we were quite surprised at how different these caverns are when compared to Oregon Caves and Carlsbad Caverns that we also visited in the last year. Read More
Birding Adventure:
February 11, 2007
For the last couple weeks we have been following what is called the “Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail.” The last two campgrounds have had volunteer lead bird walks and we have taken advantage of these. Each day it has involved getting up early and hoofing it over to the meeting place. We always meet the nicest people and have now made some new “old friends” from Florida, John and Marie. Read More
