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1964: after high school life begins. Asked to consider not returning to OSU after the first year. 1966 drafted; grunt, door gunner, HU1 pilot. Out in Dec '70. 1972 married, joined fire dept and bought first house over a 6 month span. 1980 moved family (which now consisted of wife Teri, daughter Amy and son Ryan) to CO. 1990 moved all to bush Alaska to work for the dark side (the FAA). Started Blog to keep family and friends up on our whereabouts. Retired in March 2010. In Feb 2012 sold house in Alaska. By May had bought in Redmond and completed the move. Still nesting in Redmond and loving it!

Friday, January 11, 2013

Update........Everything Works!

Rog put up the canopy and we went for a nice, uneventful cruise down the key. 

Passed a few more distressed properties.

Poor folk, only had room for one 50' ketch off to the right of frame.

Saw lots of wildlife and had a nice lunch at Stump Pass Marina.

We tested out the trolling motor and the wire didn't even get warm.  So he's going with the manual type of relay. Or as it is known in technical circles, none.

That's enough, must rest for the remainder of the day.

Stay cool.

Roughing It On The Water

Went fishing on Sarasota Bay with Roger and friend Bob.

A few of the quaint homes on the bay's east shore. Must be rough to leave them vacant for half of the year.

This little Puffer Fish was living up to his name.

There were still moments of equipment hassles as the trolling motor quit and then later when the big motor quit and we thought that we might be trying out Rog's marine towing insurance.  Turned out the gas line had just detached from the motor (I'm told it usually quits when that happens).  We got home and determined that the relay in the trolling motor power supply had died (rusted through) so we bypassed it and it appears to work fine. Going for a short cruise today so we'll see.  Rog and I agree that if it catches fire that might not be the worst thing.  We might think differently if that happens in the middle of the bay.

Fishing trips with Roger are starting to take on an adventurous flavor.


Here's a shot of our dock in front of our condo.

 This is the view of the Inter Coastal Waterway from same dock.

And our unit from the dock.

Going for late lunch with Roger and Claire in the boat so will pause for now and see if I can get some photos for later post.

Stay cool, weather remains "perfect" here.