Category: Life’s Triumphs

Fort Flagler – Saturday June 7, 2014

Hank and I are spending the weekend at Flagler.  Nine months ago I made reservations for all the weekends in June.  I’ve had to cancel the next two weekends and Jean has to work tonight so Hank and I came out to enjoy the great weather.

Hank rode shotgun for a while:

Retirement count:  25 calendar days 18 work days, Jean had 12 work days.

One of my retirement goals to do a lot of hiking.  GPS technology has advanced to the point where I could buy a unit which will transmit my location to a satellite every 10 minutes and post the position on a website anyone can access.  This is posted in real time.

Some of the cool things: as I said transmits location every 10 minutes, stores location inside the unit every 15 seconds (this is uploaded over web later), will sent and receive 160 character texts, can create stock text for quit transmit, confirms a text was received by satellite, has SOS button, operates for 100 hours, can set the location transmit at up to 4 hours, the unit can be pinged to give it’s location, pairs with smart phone for topo maps, and other cool things.

This is a screen print I took from Ipad.  The drive over here on Friday, the way points are every 10 minutes so this will also show where the traffic was the heaviest.
Couple of walks around the park.

The long line going to the bottom of the picture is from the drive in Friday.  It looks like it will be a cool tool we can use to show where we are whether we have internet or not.  This just needs a clear look at the sky.  Oh, by the way it is Delorme inReach Explorer.

It is also summer time.

Strawberry daiquiri time, had two.  I bought some frozen strawberries and put them into serving size zip lock sandwich bags, had three in the freezer (thinks for the GREAT idea, Jean).  Hank and I are both tired, we were up and at it early this morning, did a walk around the park before PBS’s Car Guys and Wait Wait.  Tanya gave me a FitBit at Christmas and today was the first day over 20,000 steps, 21,356 right now.

That’s it for today, no more motor home trip before retirement.

 

Wednesday – May 31, 1950

When I get older losing my hair,
Many years from now,
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings bottle of wine?

If I’d been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door,
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m sixty-four?

oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oooo
You’ll be older too, (ah ah ah ah ah)
And if you say the word,
I could stay with you.

I could be handy mending a fuse
When your lights have gone.
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings go for a ride.

Doing the garden, digging the weeds,
Who could ask for more?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m sixty-four?

Every summer we can rent a cottage
In the Isle of Wight, if it’s not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera, Chuck, and Dave

Send me a postcard, drop me a line,
Stating point of view.
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, Wasting Away.

Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine for evermore
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m sixty-four?

Whoo!

Fort Flagler – Saturday March 16, 2013

Here is view from my chair. We got here at 8:50 p.m last night.
This pic is from last week when it was warm and sunny.  The flies agree with my choice of wine.
Hank & I went for walk after Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.  It’s 1:30 raining hard.

These are screen shots from Google My Track.  Says it will upload to Google drive for storage, however the only thing I see on Google Drive is a map of the area and not the track we walked.

Here is the campsite picture:
For those who are counting today is 39 years from March 16, 1974. It also rained HARD that day.

 

Zion Natl Park, Another Milestone – Friday June 1, 2012

May 31 is my birthday and this year I’m 62, one of those mathematical milestones.

Here are several picture documenting how I became a “Senior” today.

For my birthday Jean gave me $10.00.

I took this $10.00 to the Zion entrance gate and purchased my Senior Pass which is one time purchase for Life Time entry into all national parks or until October 30, 2028.
The pass also gives us a 50% discount on many of the National Park camp grounds.  Anyway now I am eligible to draw Social Security and I have a government document which says I’m a Senior (that’s with a capital “S”)

ZION FRIDAY 6/1/2012

It is going to be 101 today and it was 100 yesterday, VACATION.

Today’s picture(s) are from the West Rim trail above Angel’s Landing.  I took the 6:00 a.m. bus up the canyon and spent the morning on the trail above Angel’s Landing taking pictures and hoping the condors I saw last year would come back.    They didn’t.

Over the winter I bought myself a new toy, a Canon 60d and a couple of lens. The walk around lens is 18-200mm and the big toy is a 150-500mm.  The first picture is of Angel’s Landing at 150mm.

I think this lens is going to be a lot of fun and great to take pictures of birds and other animals.

2012 = Monday January 02, 2012

It’s 2012 and the world is going to end on December 21st.  I had originally planned to live to age 78, I  forgot about the world ending.  I guess we’ll have to spend our savings before the end of the world.

Anyone want to buy a house, I’ll take advanced payments and we could close on December 22, 2012.

I wrote this over the new years holiday and forgot to post it, the offer is still open.

Harry

Out With The Old – Friday February 4, 2011

Out with the Old or is it goodbye to the first 36/37 years of our marriage.  Jean bought NEW cooking pans. The picture is most of the lids, the pots just went into the dishwasher. Tomorrow 😦 the pots & pans that got us this far in life well be gone.  If you are in a goodwill and see an olive colored pan for 25¢ just know it could have been a significant part of my life.
Say goodbye pans.  :-(… live long and prosper.
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Vacation – Zion Narrows – Saturday September 18, 2010

Saturday September 18 Tanya and I went on a Zion Institute guided walk up the Zion Narrows.

We got on the 8:00 a.m. tram for the 40 minute ride to the end of the tram road and the beginning of the River Walk which leads to the starting point of the Zion Narrows river trail. There is tons ofinformation about the Zion Narrows (plan a visit) already on the net so I’ll skip most of the Narrows details. We started the day’s walk at 9:00 am and returned at 3:45 pm. Went up river to the first Y, turned right and up Orderville Canyon to the turn around point, returned to the Y and up main river to Wall Street. At Wall Street we turned around and headed down river. I’d say about 80% of the time is spend walking in the river.

It was a great day with a really nice group of people. I scheduled the hike with the Zion Institute so we’d have the opportunity to learn something and I thought it would be more enjoyable going with someone who knew what they were actually doing. We could have walked up river on our own however going with someone who had done this a couple of hundred times was much more enjoyable. Gene could read the river and picked the easiest and fastest route up and across the river 99% of the time. I didn’t see how really good Gene was until the trip down river. We didn’t encounter many people early in the morning however on the trip down river we saw hundred’s of people. Watching them stuggle to pick the route up river showed Gene’s understanding of the river.

Our Zion Institute guide was Gene (as I mentioned above). He is in his 70’s and volunteers to lead programs for the institute all year round. Gene said his wife’s father was actually born at the same location as the current Zion Museum.

We had a great day. I’ll include a couple of pictures now and maybe some more later.

This is one of the 191 pictures I took during the day.

This is most of the group.
Have a Great day, Harry