Visit to Chuck & Barb

We drove Wednesday to Webster Florida to the Oasis RV Park where our friends from Vestal New York go every winter. We met up with Chuck and Barb Tennant. They are Friends of Leigh's since his school days growing up in Vestal.

We had a great time. We went out to eat and then came back and I learned to play shuffle board and Leigh learned a ring game. It was just a wonderful day with friends and we even got to meet their resident alligator who lives in their pond. We also met some other friend that stay there every winter. In fact they have many people from new York State we are friends with. The only reason we are not in that park is it is not near the beach and we are beach people.

Today, as we prepare to leave Florida next Wednesday we took a trip to Camper World to purchase a surge protector so we don't have anymore electrical problems from bad voltages from places we stay. We also picked up a few need things for our trip.

We are packing and getting ready for our next adventure. Bike week at Virginia Beach and visit with family. On to Pennsylvania to meet with more family and a side ride to West Virginia to visit more family then off to Maine for our summer job and my grand-daughter's graduation and spending time with family there also.

Grandpa Page is doing well here in Avante Nursing home. Just hope he continues after we leave. We will have Easter diner with him tomorrow at the nursing home. Well that is all the news for now. Our next update will probably be when we get to Virginia for Bike Week.

Magical Day at Evans Farms

Evans farms is a magical place we were lucky enough to tour, thanks to our friends Paul Holt and Joan Carter. Joan's sister and her husband Gene and Marilyn Evans owned the Evans farm which is quite the operation.

The whole farm is about 2000 acres. It has deer, turkey, bear, alligators and allot of other wild life plus bulls and cows. But the most interesting part of the farm is the aqua farm part where they raise Sturgeon and Tilipia.

Beginning in 2003 the Evans Farms bought 13 shipments of live sturgeons into the United States to start the first and only sturgeon farm in the United States. There were beluga, asetra and sevruga.

Research scientist in various countries wanted to preserve the sturgeon gene bank and to have genetic samples of these ancient species on hand.

The Evans farms has over 1000 sevruga, 30 of which are sexually mature. They have 10 Russian and 70 Adult beluga sturgeon. They are now harvesting sturgeons from sturgeon eggs preserving the species. We were lucky enough to see this first harvesting. This was most impressive seeing the eggs becoming live sturgeons a scientist first in the United States.

It was truly a magical day and very interesting seeing what most will never see a truly scientic first.

Bad day at Bedrock!

Well yesterday was a day from hell. At 7 something in the morning there was a loud pop and we lost several appliances. Our TV, microwave, DVD player, portable refrigerator. We had a power surge.

The day got even worse. We called the electric company and they said it wasn't their problem. They said it was the fault of the park we were in, faulty electric from their end. I talked to the park manager and he say " What can I say", we feel it is the electric companies problem you better call your insurance co. Called the insurance company and they said well you have a $500.00 deductible. You need to get estimates on the value of the appliances. Called several appliance places. They wanted to charge at least $75.00 just to look at the appliances. So I checked online and replacement is going to be around $600.00. So, I guess we have to bite the bullet and play out of our pocket, but on Social security that is going to be hard. Plus we need gas money to get to Maine where our next job is.

So I guess it is just another bad day in Bedrock.

Leigh's last day of work! Hooray!

Today is Leigh's last day as a dishwaher at Friend's Cafe. So we are celebrating up at Finn's on the roof over looking the ocean. We are having what Leigh calls the Bud Shootout. Where we have a couple of drinks and eat the great food there. We enjoy the band that plays and the folks that hangout there. After that we plan on going to the karoke place so Leigh can practice singing in front of people so when we return he can get one of the many one man band jobs that are open on the beach! Life is good and we are enjoying it.

Sad news for Flagler Beach Pier!

This last hurricane season the Flagler pier lost several pylons that support the pier. But they left the pier open because it is used so much by fishermen and tourist. But we had high winds this last few weeks and more pylons were lost so Flagler was forced to shut the pier down.

This pier has been the landmark for Flagler for decades. They are saying they may not re-open it because of the cost. Flagler's budget will not withstand such an expense. I hope and pray get try for grants and funding to keep this landmark alive. Flagler would never be the same without the pier and they would lose lots of money from the fishermen and the tourist. people would go to another beach and Florida has many beaches. For us Flagler is our favorite. So we would be so sad.

Excellent day with great friends!

Today our friends Paul and Joan aka Buffaloman and gal came to Flagler to spend the day with us. Joan a jewelry maker, made me these special ear rings with bears. They are so awesome, and a black bear figurine. Then we went to the farmer's market, then a thrift store. When Leigh got home from work we headed to Finn's for a drink and snack, then onto Flagler Fish Company for the best mussells and seafood we have ever tasted. It was just a great day with great friends. Life is good!

A day at Cocoa Beach!

We had a day at Cocoa Beach. We had to go to Cocoa to get a wheel chuck for the tow dolly. We put the motorcycle on the dolly but we need something to secure the motorcycle better. So we picked that up then head to the beach. We did take our swim stuff so we just walked around. Had lunch on the pier and watched the action. The fun part was watching this pelican who was not afraid of people. He was a funny bird. LOL As nice as Cocoa Beach was I still prefer Flagler Beach.