This morning we woke up to see a beautiful sunrise, too bad the city is in the way. Decided to take a couple of shots because in a blink the colors were gone.
We can’t wait to be somewhere to see the sunrises unobstructed by city. Soon…
By Gayla & Robert
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This morning we woke up to see a beautiful sunrise, too bad the city is in the way. Decided to take a couple of shots because in a blink the colors were gone.
We can’t wait to be somewhere to see the sunrises unobstructed by city. Soon…
By Gayla & Robert
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Wow…St. Pete has a house that could outshine the Griswalds. Our friend Pug Baker told Robert about the house, so we decided to visit it last night. The homeowners started a modest light display in 1977 and boy has it grown! Three electric meters are needed to handle the power of over 500,000 lights.
When you get to the street, you are greeted by some nice people directing traffic. They give you a little card talking about the display and direct you to where you can park. They encourage you to park and walk through the display to see all the details, as it’s not only lights, but numerous displays and scenes set up by the homeowners.
We walked through their 1/2 acre property and saw numerous inflatables, a stuffed animal zoo, a singing snowman, a fiber-optic forest, and model train cities…just to name a few. They seem to get a lot of visitors each night and their display runs to January 3rd. If you are in the area, it’s worth a look. At least visit their website http://www.christmasdisplay.org/.
Hope you enjoy as much as we did. Merry Christmas!!
By Gayla & Robert
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Rob Havey's photo of Dave & Helen's boat
Even though it’s warm down here in Florida, the holiday spirit is in the air. Our good friends Hippie and Blondy (aka Dave & Helen) invited us on their boat as they participated in the Indian Rocks Beach Boat Parade Saturday night. Ann, Scott and Andy joined us on this three hour tour…yes at least a three hour tour.
It was a beautiful night for a lighted boat ride. We went in every little finger around Indian Rocks beach where everyone in the town could view the parade from their back yards. We took several pictures and many of them weren’t too bad considering the low light conditions and we were on a moving boat. The only picture we didn’t capture was Hippie and Blondy’s boat. Thank goodness for others on shore that took some great shots and posted on Facebook.
We blasted Brian Setzer’s Christmas album. We kept repeating it over and over as that was the peppiest album we had on hand. The song of the night seemed to be Jingle Bells…”He’s Dashing!!!” We all had a great time. Even though Andy doesn’t want to admit it, we know he had fun too.
Congrats to Hippie and Blondy as they won 2nd place for their boat. Also thanks to them for including us as they get us out and about to experience new and exciting things!!
By Gayla & Robert
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We picked up some self-sealing pipe foam insulation and foil back pipe wrap insulation to go around as many water lines as we can get to. The exposed lines are under our slide out in the storage bay. First, we cut the self-sealing pipe foam insulation to fit around the exposed water lines. Then we cut strips of the foil back pipe wrap insulation for a second layer. We wrapped it in such a way to have about ¼ inch overlap. We secured it with foil tape. Last, we secured the insulated lines with zip ties.
By Gayla & Robert
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Having a white vehicle is a pain. It seems to get grimy quickly. The last time Robert gave the RV a good bath was when we were still living at our rental house. We are parked under a couple of live oak trees and those tiny leaves get everywhere. He has swept the roof several times since we’ve parked here, but the grime streaks were really beginning to bothering us.
Robert wanted a hose that he could use just for the purpose of washing vehicles, so off to Lowe’s we went to pick out a simple 50′ light duty garden hose and Simple Green detergent. I can’t be for certain, but it seemed as though Robert was excited about cleaning the RV. To me, it seems like a overwhelming task, but to him, I think he was going to have fun because he seemed gitty.
Yesterday, while I was working in my home office all day, Robert was outside scrubbing. We took some before photos, but the photograph really doesn’t do it justice on how dirty it really was. I know some folks wait longer to wash than we did and you think their white vehicle is really brown, but we want to make sure that we don’t have too much build up of the sap from the trees.
It took Robert practically all day, but he completed his project. It looks wonderful. He got in all the nooks and crannies. He plans to do a quick touch up cleaning right before we leave for Missouri in a couple of weeks. I can see why some people would pay to get this service done. It is certainly a lot of hard work.
By Gayla & Robert
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Today was Indian Rocks Beach’s Parade. We don’t even live in Indian Rocks Beach, but we participated and had a wonderful time. Our close friends Dave, Helen, and Nikki live in IRB and asked us to join them in the parade as the homeowner’s association participated with a posse of decorated bikes.
We took time earlier in the week and decked out our bikes. We were the talk of the RV park. Anyone that walked by would ask us what we were up to. We also got several comments when we would ride around the park decorated all in tinsel. It was fun.
This morning we loaded up our bikes and made our way to IRB. We watched Helen and Nikki decorate their bikes, then we all met up with the rest of the IRB Homeowners Association gang. What a time we had. The parade route went through all the little side streets of town. It was the first parade we’ve ever participated in where not only candy was thrown out, but dog biskets. There were more dogs with thier owners along the route than kids with their parents.
The ride in all was a little over 12 miles and by the end we were famished. We peddled our way to the Red Lion for drinks and dinner. After stuffing ourselves, sunset was calling us, so we walked across the street to relax on the beach. The day was hot and sunny, and beach was relaxing and peaceful, as the sun fell slowly from the sky. A perfect ending to a fun day with the wonderful people of IRB.
