Monthly Archives: January 2011

Time to Leave

Our month is up, it’s time to move on. This morning we did some last minute emergency shopping….. we were out of coffee and toilet paper!!! We also took advantage of being in the area of the donut store to … Continue reading

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Sunday A(nother) day of rest

The title says it all really, the warmer weather is still with us and the furnace hasn’t come on once tonight. It was even warm enough during the day to allow me to dig my shorts out of the cupboard! … Continue reading

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Partial Connectivity

After a day and a half the internet seems to be back, and more stable. Just in time for us to leave!! A couple of days of warm weather spent mostly at the campsite. Yesterday Lyn treated herself toan expensive … Continue reading

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Aloha! Luau Time

Well, we had two warm nights, and back to the cool ones, at least the trailer warms up well if the sun comes out… which it did. Thursday mornings are shopping days, so we headed off to the local supermarket … Continue reading

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A River is Born

Last nights storm had disappeared by this morning, although it was cooler it was back to being sunny. We travelled about 30 miles east to Silver Springs. This is a nature park located at the head of the the Silver … Continue reading

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Tornados, Thunderstorms, Wind and Rain

Another warm day, Lyn went off to the craft meeting this morning and I did a few odd jobs around the place. The forecast was for rain to develop in the afternoon with the possibility of thunderstorms. Given the forecast … Continue reading

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Oh for an English Country Lane

As today was such a warm day, we decided to head north about 50 miles to Cedar Key. To get there was fairly easy, all the roads were straight, 3 primary roads with straight stretches of 10-12 miles. Round here … Continue reading

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Excommunicated!

The internet here is about as reliable us using 2 tin cans and a length of string to communicate. It was down totally all day Sunday. My apologies to Mum who apparently waited up all night for the non-existent episode … Continue reading

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Another Lazy Day

This day was probably one of our laziest days yet. There was nothing to fix, nothing needed doing! Although the day was bright and sunny, it was cool and windy (I know, nothing like the Ottawa wind chill warning of … Continue reading

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Disaster Strikes!!

Late last night the rain started, it was pretty hard at times and was accompanied by thunder and lightning. For the most part the thunder just rolled around and the lightning was the behind the clouds type, there was one … Continue reading

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