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December 1, 2007 I did not want this to become a history of my medical problems but it looks like thats the way its going since I don't have much else to talk about. About two months ago after the surgery and following problem with infection I developed arrhythmia (irregular heart beat). I had no energy, my blood pressure had gone up and I could feel the screwed up pulse anytime I took my blood pressure, so back the the heart electrician I go. After some test he puts me on another pill which seems to have made a world of difference. I feel much better and have been able to get back out walking about every day, my longest has been about seven miles, taking a little over two hours. My old back side was dragging after that but the doctors says the heart is a muscle and needs exercise so I am going to give it my best shot.
November 9, 2007 Sorry for not keeping up but its been a trying summer. Health problems have kept me from doing much. I did get in a few good rides on the harley, all over southern Ohio and one to Indiana.
Looks like Sue and I are not going to try and go to Texas this winter, doctors have me scheduled up until Christmas. Maybe a few weeks in Florida in January if things go right.
September 06, 2007 The trip to Knoxville got canceled due to 100 plus degree weather, too hot for this old boy. Been doing some riding locally mostly in the evening an hour or two before sunset. The deer are out about that time and I get a charge out of watching them play. Sue and I are debating whether to go south this winter or not, all depends on our combined health situation, time will tell.
August 05, 2007 My son Chris and I are hoping to make a trip to the Harley Davidson users group rally at Knoxville, Tn. later this month. This will be my first major ride (280 miles one way) since my recent "unpleasantness". These rallys for those of you not familiar with motorcycle fanatics, are big events with folks coming from all over the country and some even from outside the USA. The following is a link to a picture of Chris and I on our bikes, taken back in the spring. I will try and get some additional pictures to post on our return.
August 02, 2007 First let me say I am sorry I have not kept up with
my updates, but it has been one heck of a summer.
Back in May my cardiologist
ran a stress test and decided my irregular heart beat was getting out of
control. He sent me to another cardiologist that was also specialist in electro
physiology (heart electrician). Well in late may I went into
I had a hole in my groin big enough to put a roll of dimes in so I made several
trip back to the doc who did the emergency surgery. Three weeks later feeling
poorly, pulse rate jumps up about 20 points and I am running a temperature, my
son who is in
Sorry for the long story but it’s been a long time coming.
so
we will spend it while we have it.February 14, 2007 We have about 10 inches of snow & ice on the ground, sure was nice to get back to Ohio in time to get dumped on again. Our trip to Cleveland went well, the docs wanted some additional x-rays before making any decisions, also they want Sue to under go some additional therapy to see if it has any effect. Anyway we are to make a trip back in early March, hopefully the weather will be better by then.
I tried to move the motor home today but found that the leveling jack were frozen solid to the cement, so she will have to set there until the weather warms enough to free her from the frozen driveway. I have been getting several orders for Lake Erie Maps of late, which makes me think that there are others out there who are ready for warmer weather besides me. I did get out and start my motorcycle today, not sure if that was to warm her up and charge the battery or for me to hear her run anyway think spring.
January 27, 2007 We are back in sunny Ohio after a non eventful three day trip home. The weather here is at best not good and we have a cold spell coming in tonight, low for tonight is predicted to be 19 degrees with tomorrows high being 20 degrees (burr). We are trying to get ready for the trip to Cleveland Clinic a week from Monday. Sue had a MRI done yesterday at Kettering Hospital which will go with us to Cleveland. Sure hoping for good weather for our trip north.
January 20, 2007 If you have watched the weather maps over the last week the weather here has been nothing to brag about, highs in the 50s with over night lows in the low 40s and rain or drizzle most mornings, and it looks like another week or so of the same thing. While we have to be out of here by the 27th we are watching the weather and when we see clear weather through upper Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama we are out of here.
January 15, 2007 Boy the bottom dropped out of the weather today, we had a high in the mid 50s and the 5:30pm temperature is close to 40 degrees. The folks down here are fun to watch, I have seen ice fisherman with less clothes on, you would think it was -29 degrees. Just a little while ago the TV flashed a message that Donna (a town just down the road) had canceled school activities for the evening due to the weather. Boy a few days around Lake Erie in the winter would give them a totally different prospective on bad weather. Our son had been here for a few days and flew out this morning going back to Chicago, he got hung up in Houston for two hours due to flight back ups at O'Hare. Now that part of the county knows what bad weather really is.
January 14, 2007 It looks like another beautiful day here in south Texas, morning temperature is 73 degrees and we have a genital breeze out of the southwest. Looks like we are in for a temperature drop in the next few days though with lows in the 40s predicted for mid week.
We will start winding down next week and will head back to Ohio starting the morning of the 27th. We have things to do back home in February so all good things must end. I kind of miss home after being gone over two months now, Sue has to make a trip to Cleveland Clinic in early February to see if they can do anything to help her back problems so it will be a busy time for us.
January 09, 2007 Today in the south can be seen clouds of dark smoke, the sugar cane farmers are burning off the dried leaves before harvest or so I am told. If the wind is from the south you can expect your car and rig to be covered with the ash. Much of the flat land along the Mexican border is used for growing sugar cane as well as vegetables. It is hard to comprehend a place having a 12 month growing season after spending a lifetime in Ohio.
Speaking of the Mexican boarder we took a drive down SR-281 which runs from south of McAllen all the way to Brownsville just north of the boarder, I was amaized (disheartened) to see all the truck turminal full of trucks hauling out of Mexico, I suspect this is the "huge sucking sound" that Ross Perot predicted several years ago.
December 28, 2006 The weather continues to be great though we have strong winds today, 25 to 35 knots with gusts in the 40s. Temperature is in the mid to upper 70s. A front is to pass through sometime tomorrow and the winds will lay. I made a trip to the Don-Wes flee market yesterday looking for a few things and got suspicious that their price was more than Camping World which is about 10 miles east of here, once we got back to the bus I checked Camping Worlds web site and sure enough, their price at the flee market was about $9 dollars higher. I guess they have decided we can afford the increase, it pays to double check when buying anything any place.
December 20, 2006 Other than the great weather there is not much to report, temperature today is mid to upper 80s, wind is around 10 knots out of the south. We are to get a front tonight which will bring cool temperatures tomorrow and through the weekend if you can believe the weather guessers. The fruit and vegetables down here are great, I have eaten more apples and oranges this trip than I have in the last year. We have orange and grapefruit trees right here in the park but the oranges are the ones with seeds so I have been going to a local orchard and buying the best navel oranges you every hung a lip on, the price is very reasonable, 10 pounds for $3.00
December
8, 2006
Last evening Sue and I decided we were tired of our own cooking (this
happens
fairly often). There is a little place down the street and around the
corner
from where we are staying called "Willie Bs
Bar B
Q". We had been past it many times but it was not one of those places
that
"grabs you" but recently some others had
talked about how good the food was so we decided to give it a try. Once
in the
door we found it to be "cafeteria style" ie;
get in line and order what you want. Sue
ordered the
stuffed baked potato, the counter man
pulled out of a
hot box what I thought was a football wrapped in foil. It was one of
the
biggest baked potatoes I had ever seen, it took a minute for me to
decide if he
was going to cut it or pass it. I ordered the bar-b-q plate with potato
salad
and cole slaw,
all were very
good for under $20 for the both of us. Just goes to show that
especially here
in south
December
7, 2006 First thought
today is for
those who lost their lives on this day so many years ago. Thank God
that we as
a nation have people like those. The saying that "Freedom is not
free" could not be truer.
December
6, 2006
The weather has turned for the good, todays
high was
near 80 degrees, winds are light at best. I set out under the awning
for a few
hours today and got an unintended nap. The orange trees are full of
fruit, most
is still green but tuning ripe. We stopped at a fruit stand and bought
a shack
of navel oranges, the were 25 cents per
pound and for
two dollars I got a large bag full.
November
30, 2006 Well it can't
all be
"roses", we had a cold front blow through about 10 this morning
dropping the temperature from over 70 down into the 50s. Everyone is
running
around talking about how cold and miserable the weather is, personally
I think
they are all spoiled and a few weeks in
November
29, 2006 We have been
here in south
November
27, 2006
We have spent the last couple of days looking over the "
November 26, 2006 First let me apologize for neglecting this site for so long but it has been a non eventful summer for Sue and I, not much going on.
We
are on our way to south