Monday, May 23, 2011

Holly Springs, NC

Sunday, May 22, 2011
Holly Springs, NC, 61 degrees and partly sunny to 84 degrees.
Ariana and Zane
Ariana ans Zane got their first dip (short time) into the pool filled with water on the cold side as Ariana has a fast pitch softball game today.
Ariana # 11
Just one more softball game this afternoon at 3:45 PM they lost 3-2
End of game


Sunday, May 22, 2011

Saturday, May 21, 2011
Holly Springs, NC, 55 degrees and partly sunny to 83 degrees
it was a long day at the softball field for a tournament. Ariana’s first game was at eleven AM of course they had to be there an hour before game time. Games are an hour and twenty minutes.
Ariana (#11) and Coach
 We were back to the parking area for our community lunch at Tent City.
Tent City
The second game was at five and a third game was right after that one. Back for some dinner break (finishing up our lunch salads and sandwiches). A fourth game started at nine fifty. Sundays first game for Ariana and the team is at three thirty in the afternoon. We got back to Buster just before midnight. The pool was filling all day.

Ariana in scoring position


Saturday, May 21, 2011

Holly Springs, NC

Friday, May 20, 2011

Holly Springs, NC, 61 degrees and partly sunny to 82 degrees
Pool going up

Happy Birthday to Zane 6 years old today. I failed to tell you that yesterday May 19, was our 46th anniversary.
Water going in at 10 AM
Well the pool men arrived at eight this morning and were done and one inch of water in the pool at ten thirty. The rest of the day was filling the pool.
Zane and Ariana
Ariana and Zane are in the pool after school today.

Happy Birthday Zane (6)

Let Zane eat cake


Friday, May 20, 2011

Holly Springs, NC

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Holly Springs, NC, 54 degrees and partly sunny to 81 degrees. (To enlarge pictures; Click on picture to enlarge, click return button (<) on your browser to return to post)
White circle is the pool area
Well the pool project got started in earnest today with ground work I helped with digging out using a small bucket loader making a pile of dirt. The pool is going inside the white circle, the grade change is hard to see in the picture, it changes about twenty inches. I was plenty tired last night and I only spent two and a half hours on the machine not the one shown in the picture. Brain spent another three and a half hours also to get the project along this far.
Pool area dugout

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Holly Springs, NC

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Holly Springs, NC, 55 degrees and mostly cloudy. The answer is I have been lazy. The question is why I have not been blogging for the past eleven days? Well there is not much to write about unless the every day mundane things are written about. Well actually there are some things to write.

There has been a lot of rain some during the day but a lot overnight. Temperatures are mostly in the fifties in the morning and up into the eighties in the afternoon.


Zane and Grandma Bonnie
Before the Skate outing we had lunch out at Sweet Tomatoes
Zane (gray shirt) two friends down
Last Saturday (the fourteenth) Christine had a birthday outing at a skating ring for Zane (6) there were fourteen friends there with Zane and he skates very well this was the fifth time skating this year.
Ariana (pink blouse)
Ariana is a speedster and she also had a friend there with her. This Saturday is a softball tournament for Ariana in Cary, NC about a half hour drive for all of us to the field.
Let them eat ice cream and cake
Christine and John have decided to purchase and install a 21 foot above ground swimming pool that should be installed Friday weather permitting.

Monday, May 9, 2011

Holly Springs, NC

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Holly Springs, NC, 55 degrees and light fog (light smoky) to partly sunny 81 degrees.

Our granddaughter played a softball tournament in Erwin, NC today George went there with the two grandchildren and their father. Bonnie and our daughter went to the beach, Mother’s day. (To enlarge pictures; Click on picture to enlarge, click return button (<) on your browser to return to post)
Team Families
Fuquay-Varina Bombs (team name) Team families setup tents, chairs and tables for time between games and lunch there were a total of six tents.
Ariana and Zane (both on the right)

The first softball game for Ariana ten and under age group was 8:30 AM and we had to be there an hour early. I got back to Buster just before seven PM for a long day at the ball park.
Ariana batting
Ariana played in four games and the team came out in third place for ten and under age group.

Fuquay-Varina Bombs Team with Third place trophy
Ariana front right

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Holly Springs, NC

Friday, May 6, 2011

Holly Springs, NC, 46 degrees and partly sunny to a rain shower to partly sunny never did actually look at the temperature before the rain but after it was cooler.
Buster after his shower
Buster Brown took a shower with Silver Sally today. I washed Buster and Bonnie washed Sally. Then latter it rained for a second rinse and during the rain i took a nap.
Ariana on a blow up course

Latter we went to Ariana and Zane’s school for a fun night after that we had pizza.
Zane (red shirt) with a toss game

Friday, May 6, 2011

Holly Springs, NC

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Florence, South Carolina 46 degrees and mostly sunny. Buster got a big drink of diesel in Latta, South Carolina. 59 gallons @ $ 3.929 average fuel mileage for 2,252 miles is 8.8 MPG for Buster. For the day 140 miles of travel there was delay on I 95 in Lumberton, NC so Buster took some local road US 301 to get around the delay. We arrived in Holly Springs, NC, 76 degrees and partly sunny for our summer. Buster’s trip from New Mexico 2047 miles.


One of hundreds of signs
Driving thru South Carolina there are signs for South of the Boarder tourist stop for over a hundred miles here is a picture of one sign and the actual site from the highway. I remember riding thru the area in the fifties on US 301 and it was a smaller busy place then and the sign were just as plentiful.
South of the Boarder from I 95
Christine was the first home so we had some time alone with her then the children came home from school and came right to us and Buster. Latter Bonnie and George went to dinner with Cindy our other daughter. When we came home to Buster there was some time with the grandchildren and Chris and John.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Savannah, Georgia

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Hardeeville, South Carolina 66 degrees and mostly sunny to 77 degrees. Buster is on the road agin to Florence, South Carolina today 161 miles. One more travel day to a grandchild fix.

I 95 South Carolina
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Brunswick, Georgia 72 degrees partly sunny to 89 degrees partly sunny. Buster drove to Hardeeville, South Carolina 89 miles, this campground is five miles outside (north) of Savannah, Georgia. We latter took Silver Sally into Savannah for dinner on the river.


River Street, Savannah, GA

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Clearwater, Florida

Monday, May 2, 20110
Lake City, FL 72 degrees partly sunny what a nice day to wake up to UBL taken out by Seal Team 6.
On the road again to Brunswick, Georgia 142 miles today from Lake City, FL. After parking Buster we took Silver Sally over to Jekyll Island and into Brunswick for a seafood dinner.
Buster took a drink of diesel $ 4.099 per gallon Silver Sally will wait until South Carolina to take a drink of gasoline.
Buster in Brunswick, GA
Bonnie is looking at the dropdown blown up onto the awning while we were away in Brunswick.

Entrance to Jekyll Island

Sunday, May 1, 2011
Clearwater, Florida 70 partly sunny to 97 degrees. We went to Alice and Joe’s for the afternoon and dinner. Her grandson and his family came to dinner (baked ziti). After dinner we drove back to Lake City, FL arriving just after 9 PM 185 mile trip.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Clearwater, Florida

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Clearwater, Florida 70 degrees partly sunny to 95 degrees.

Sand Key Park on the Gulf today, beach trip that is about all for the day
Sand Key (Clearwater, FL)

Clearwater, Florida

Friday, April 29, 2011

Clearwater, Florida 72 degrees partly sunny to 96 degrees. Merry stayed at the motel and we drove Silver Sally to the east coast of Florida for the space shuttle launch. Interstate four there was stop and go traffic approaching the SR 417 and the BEE line SR 528 had stop and go traffic but better (shorter stopped time) than last time we went for a shuttle launch. We arrived on Merritt Island for a lunch brake and learned the launch was canceled for a fuel heater problem so it was a two hundred sixty eight mile drive for lunch.

Lunch at Mc Donalds

Monday, May 2, 2011

Clearwater, Florida

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Lake City, FL 72 degrees partly cloudy to 97 degrees and mostly sunny in Clearwater, FL. We drove Silver Sally to Clearwater, FL to visit with my sister Alice and her husband Joe. To night we stayed in a motel. The traffic was medium heavy driving down interstate seventy five and even heavier going the other direction. From Lake City the trip to Alice’s is 187 miles.

We were able to make a quicker trip with Silver Sally and at twenty eight miles per gallon down a dead end street (the florida peninsula) before we turn north to North Carolina. Alice made baked macaroni for a great dinner