Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit yet once again in a quiet household, I'm the only one awake with something or another on the TV. I'm up collecting my thoughts for the day and just realized this is the first live blog that I have written in a few weeks. I usually prewrite them during the week and write them live on the weekends, but last weekend was rather busy and they were pre-written ones.

First of all I would like to say Happy Birthday to my Brother from another Mother George McClain. He and Pam both had birthdays this week as well as losing their long time pet Spike earlier in the week. They had spike about 10 years and he was a big lovable puppy to say the least. That have now gotten two smaller dogs that they have rescued this week to try to fil Spikes big shoes.

As far as Michelle and I, it's Ohiopyle bound today. Taking the small gas grill and some meat to grill upon it and heading to one of our favorite private picnic spots to enjoy the start of our Memorial Day Weekend. We have also talked about stopping by Jumonville as Michelle has never been to the cross.

Going to be a great day, I hope you have one as well.

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, I'm the first to recover from that losing battle with the Sandman last night and am up early collecting my thoughts for the day. I've got Iron Man 3 on in the background and I'm just now waking up.

Last year our Coffee Pot got fried in an electrical storm, so Michelle went and bought a Grind and Brew coffee pot that until the past month or so had worked like a charm. For some reason we couldn't prevent it from spilling half the coffee over the counter every morning no matter what measures we took or what we tried. I had had enough of cleaning it up every morning, so we went out last night and bought one like the one that got fried in the electrical storm a last Summer. The Grind and Brew was just a pain in the butt to clean and scrub every day because it left so much residue behind and the coffee filter was basket rather than cone shaped. I re-welcome the best coffee pot we have had back into the house.

Today's plans? Well we are going to start off with a trip to Hovatters Zoo this morning. Michelle has never been there and it is very close, so we're going to start our day with her first visit to the Zoo. She is kind of excited to go as she is a Zoo kind of person.

After the Zoo we're going to head up north to Ohiopyle. We never made it up there once last year, so we decided to grab our small BBQ grill and head up there from the Zoo, since I can just jump on 26 north and get there quite easily. It's a place I have always loved going, but due to last summers horrible weather I never had the chance to make it there. That all changes today. We have a favorite area to picnic and that is probably where we will have lunch.

Since my battle of gout I have gotten no chances to hit the trails, hopefully my foot has recovered enough that I can attempt to hit the trails today at Ohiopyle. I miss my daily walk and am ready to get back to it. I'm still losing weight despite not walking, but walking is a good way to get lost with your music and get some fresh air.

I did get a chance to talk to my lovely niece Amy last night. She found a great deal on a new Camera last night and wanted my opinion on it. She has a DSLR, but for the same reason I did not buy one last fall she doesn't like it. Too big and bulky and there is too much stuff that you have to carry around with it. Multiple lenses and you have to switch them with each shot. She wants a do all camera and this is a good one.

Speaking of Cameras, I'll be taking mine today.

Have a great day.

Great Day Yesterday

Before we let this weekend expire and return to our jobs to put in another week of work, I would like to take a little bit of time out and reflect upon yesterday. Mainly because I'm just not ready for the weekend to be over with yet.

Michelle and I packed up Pearl and headed north to Ohiopyle State Park  to start the day off with a little pic nic and a little bit of geocaching.

We started off by going to our favorite pic nic area and pulling the subaru down by the creek and just having a great time. It was very aesthetically pleasing, ear candy to put it in short. A running stream, no one around, birds chirping and you have the place basically all to yourselves.

After the pic nic we did a couple geocaches there, one on top of the overlook and the other down by the natural water slide. The people were out in full force at the water slide as the water was running good and hard and there were a lot of people laying out and enjoying the warm sun.

After Ohiopyle we decided to get lost and try to find our way to Coopers Rock without going any of the traditional ways. We had the GPS with us, but didn't use it for navigation, just a reference point. I had made the trip from there to Bruceton once before, but that was 25 years ago and I thought I knew the way. We did manage to make it to Bruceton, but not the traditional way through Markleysburg that I thought we were going to go.

We finished off the day with a return trip to Five Guys, since our first trip there when they opened was a disaster. I was impressed to say the least. Orange flavored Diet Coke, you have to love their machines....LOL

Lifting and cardio day so

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