Ahhh. Does it get any better? We still have the use of Jim and Chris' kayaks so we went out with Dick and Sue from "Kayuba" . No lobsters but what the heck, we were diving! Then back to the "Muffin". I'm so happy its scarey.

The post scuba big rinse and dry!

Sleepin Around and the Extended Family

This is Marilyn and Chris.

Chris you know and Marilyn is her mum. A pretty great lady that is enjoying life and sharing a bit of it with the rest of us in"Marilyn's Planet".
In our travels we like to park in the yards of friends and families, in trade we do a little work on their homes whether it is a house,motorhome or condo...This is what we call sleeping around.
This last weekend we had the opportunity to spend a little time at Marilyn'(not her yard she has a townhouse)but making her kitchen floor more beautiful and just hanging out.

It was fun. Jim and Chris were out of town and we had her all to ourselves. We aren't to sure if she is very excited about being adopted by us, but tough...we like her and we are going to keep her!!!

Lobster Season

Well the day has finally arrived. John has his Green Stick, lobster bag and fishing license( with the necessary spiny lobster stamp). Now its just paddle out, dive down and round yourself up a bunch of lobsters ha!!! They are elusive little critters.
(Honda, Honda, kayak,kayak,kayak,kayak,Jim)
Dick and Geri Trodick were so cool and lent us their kayaks for the day. The weather and water was terrific and John did catch A lobster but SHE had eggs so we couldn't keep her. No matter any day diving is better than any day not! O Yeh KAYUBA!

Playing With Others

Thanks to Jim and Chris once again we get to try something new. Boat Diving. You dive off the boat not for a boat and its really alot of fun. Unlike kayak diving you must share your space with quite a few other people. Our group was not overly large so you could move around and they were all there to have a good time. We dove on barracuda reef but didn't see and barracuda. Visability was good and I kept trying to take pictures... do you see any here? Lesson #1 Get close to your subject. It was a blast and if I figure out where I put the pictures you'll see for yourself.

The Mothership

This is it! The inspiration for Desdemona's "rocketship/boat/home" in Jimmy Buffet's best selling book "Where Is Joe Merchant?"and thus when a couple of "Parrotheads" with a traveling jones aquire thier very own rocket ship to the stars the name would be obvious.




We first took off on our adventure in "Desdemona's Cosmic Muffin"which later grew to be "HMS CM2" (Her majesty's sevice cosmic muffin 2).


The Muffins.

July 4th

The celebration continues. It's Jim and Chris' anniversary. Thanks to them including us in an invitation to a party on Deerfield Beach we were able to enjoy the fireworks with them and Marilyn(Chris' mom) in kayaks right under the action...We were even escorted by a couple dolphins...pretty cool.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY KIDS

PIRATES !!!!

It seems like forever that we left Quartzsite and our good friends Chris and Jim in the care of our parents(or vice versa).
It's 4th of July weekend and we are all going "kayak diving". ( the act of scuba diving from a kayak.) It's a 1st for us but with the help of Kayuba it was an awesome day...We are now Nevada representatives for the club.

Pirates preparing to set sail(kayak)

BBQ Target Style

A pleasant suprise. Target threw a BBQ this week for everyone involved in the remodel. I love being cooked for!!

Memorial Weekend

We have hardly returned to Naples(We were in Cassleberry Fl installing a Starbucks/Food Ave) and we get a 3 day weekend.!!

ohoo! A dog beach!!!!! and not far from the RV Park.

Naples Florida

A summer on the gulf coast should be pretty nice. The beaches are known for white sand and No waves. We are a bit farther from the beach this year at Kountree Kampin Rv Resort. It's a laidback place where the people are friendly and there's a POOL. Of course with us the big determining factor is" are larger dogs allowed as Ariel is ... a healthy girl!

Starbucks/ Food Avenues

Every once in a while Jesse sends us to a different store to install Starbucks/ Food Avenue millwork and equipment. It is our favorite part of fixture installations. You go to different places, it takes about a week( if all rough construction is complete) and the finished product is very satisfying.

Food Avenue.
If we had the chance we would specialize in strictly these.

Back at the Beach

After an all too quick stop to visit J.D. and Cheryl in Mims(we all work for J H Vaughn but on different stores) we are at the beach , last years home when we weren't running from hurricanes. Alot of the same people are here.

Like Scott and Carmie ,still having more fun than 2 people should be allowed.

Shenendoah Valley

We are once again heading south. This time with a few stops to explore underground in the Shenendoah Caverns

and at least a few miles on the Blue Ridge Parkway

Not always the best route for an RV thats towing but man could you see far!

Gettysburg

Say Gettysburg and every kid past 3rd grade knows it was a battle during the Civil War but you have to see it to believe it. It's big! Big in area and big in the numbers of men killed and wounded. It is very depressing but the countryside is beautiful. All green and flowering when we were there with monuments of every size and description dotting the fields.

Washington DC -so much so little time

A girls best friend!! Diamonds..Hope Diamond. We really enjoyed visiting all the museums but there are just so many and 3 days just wasn't enough time. So we skipped the galleries in order to have time to tour the Archives and Library of Congress(what an amazing building...inside and out)

And this little babe is the famous Treasury duck that chose the sidewalk in DC to hatch her eggs.

Wahington DC

Today was filled with monuments and emotions.

Colonial Williamsburg

Carpenters and Coopers are not the same. First builds a structure and the second makes barrels, buckets and such
There was so much to see and not everything was open. The strange thing tho was you could hear the city in the distance but everything around us was no different than a day in 1773. This is just a sampling of my favorites. Carpenters and Coopers. Tailors and Gardens.
An appentice tailor.

So this is Hatteras? Pretty cool Rv.

Of course there are still lighthouses how else would they know where to land.


But we spent most of the day at Kill Devil Hill and the Wright Bros. Museum Tommorow Colonial Williamsburg... Being a tourist is tough work but pretty nice if you can get it.

JUST AS COOL AS WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE
A morning walk on the beach.


A ride on a ferry.

A veeery small ferry...and we are here on the outerbanks. Tomorrow light houses and kites!!

ON THE ROAD AGAIN!!!

We wrapped up the last of the Target store in Myrtle Beach yesterday. OOHOO, Cleaned the Muffin,

I tossed my workboots(abit of a ritual with us)
and said "goodbye" to new friends.


All in all I think the remodel went pretty well but now the fun begins.
We have only gotten as far a Atlantic Beach NC where we found everything to start things out right. A beach for Ariel and we can sleep to the sounds of the waves.

Thats the last we'll see of that ring. She sacrificed it to the sea gods...Good Girl!

PLAY BALL!!!!

Well thanks to Ken Cecil our Able Body representative and his wife Dean

We got to see a double header(because of Thur. night rain-out) last night. What fun! A few people we knew and some we didn't.

Here's Jack our OSR and Splash ! OOHOO!
We had a great time thanks Ken.

IF NOTHING ELSE ACCESSORIZE
Myrtle Beach is known for its golf courses, we know people in Oregon that have come here to golf,but not us. We didn't even squeeze in a round of minature golf but I did score some dandy head covers.

OPENING DAY
It was the season opener for the Myrtle Beach Pelicans and we had tickets. We also had one helluva storm over us. O well the worst that can happen is a rain out. It did.


You can still do other good stuff like a little shopping, have a couple beers and make some new friends.

Properly attired for the weather of course complete with wet suits and snorkels.

WEEEEEEE!
Finally a warm sunny day and some beach time.