Author: harrylange

Fort Flagler – Saturday June 7, 2014

Hank and I are spending the weekend at Flagler.  Nine months ago I made reservations for all the weekends in June.  I’ve had to cancel the next two weekends and Jean has to work tonight so Hank and I came out to enjoy the great weather.

Hank rode shotgun for a while:

Retirement count:  25 calendar days 18 work days, Jean had 12 work days.

One of my retirement goals to do a lot of hiking.  GPS technology has advanced to the point where I could buy a unit which will transmit my location to a satellite every 10 minutes and post the position on a website anyone can access.  This is posted in real time.

Some of the cool things: as I said transmits location every 10 minutes, stores location inside the unit every 15 seconds (this is uploaded over web later), will sent and receive 160 character texts, can create stock text for quit transmit, confirms a text was received by satellite, has SOS button, operates for 100 hours, can set the location transmit at up to 4 hours, the unit can be pinged to give it’s location, pairs with smart phone for topo maps, and other cool things.

This is a screen print I took from Ipad.  The drive over here on Friday, the way points are every 10 minutes so this will also show where the traffic was the heaviest.
Couple of walks around the park.

The long line going to the bottom of the picture is from the drive in Friday.  It looks like it will be a cool tool we can use to show where we are whether we have internet or not.  This just needs a clear look at the sky.  Oh, by the way it is Delorme inReach Explorer.

It is also summer time.

Strawberry daiquiri time, had two.  I bought some frozen strawberries and put them into serving size zip lock sandwich bags, had three in the freezer (thinks for the GREAT idea, Jean).  Hank and I are both tired, we were up and at it early this morning, did a walk around the park before PBS’s Car Guys and Wait Wait.  Tanya gave me a FitBit at Christmas and today was the first day over 20,000 steps, 21,356 right now.

That’s it for today, no more motor home trip before retirement.

 

Wednesday – May 31, 1950

When I get older losing my hair,
Many years from now,
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings bottle of wine?

If I’d been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door,
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m sixty-four?

oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oooo
You’ll be older too, (ah ah ah ah ah)
And if you say the word,
I could stay with you.

I could be handy mending a fuse
When your lights have gone.
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings go for a ride.

Doing the garden, digging the weeds,
Who could ask for more?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m sixty-four?

Every summer we can rent a cottage
In the Isle of Wight, if it’s not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera, Chuck, and Dave

Send me a postcard, drop me a line,
Stating point of view.
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, Wasting Away.

Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine for evermore
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m sixty-four?

Whoo!

Penrose – Monday May 26, 2014

After yesterday’s rain this morning was nice and sunny.  Hank and I went for a walk but didn’t get to far, the wind came up and it looked like it was going to rain.  

Hank decided he’d get some practice in for our future retirement (this picture was taken before we took our walk).

37 days  AND COUNTING.

Here’s today’s walk –

 

Penrose – Saturday, May 24, 2014

Hank and I went on two walks today, fitbit says 7.85 miles. I am getting old.

Here is the morning walk:
Here is the campsite picture;

Since my phone’s last update this is how I am posting pictures, remember with the last update I can only post one picture per WordPress blog posting.

Take picture with phone.
Use Picsay pro to resave pic in small file size
Upload to Dropbox
Move to iPad
Set phone to hotspot
Download pic to iPad
Write blog with multiple pics
Upload blog

Oh, here is today’s count
Have a great evening.

 

Fort Flagler – Saturday, May 17, 2014

Great day at Flagler, Hank and I had a good walk and it was sunny all afternoon. I got a little sun burn.

I’m typing this on an iPad version of WordPress so we’ll see if it will let me put up more than one picture. Here is site 87 again:

Hummm. I see the code for picture’s location but no picture.

Here is our walk:
This is a rhodendron I saw:

This is our last trip to Flagler for a while. We will be at Penrose for the holiday weekend and home all of the weekends in June. July 3 starts retirement and most of July and August in the Cascades hiking and camping, then it’s south to Utah and the Southwest for September October and most of November.

Times to publish this to see what I get. Harry

Fort Flagler – Sunday May 4, 2014

Saturday was a nice day.

Tanya and Mike came by for a while, Hank and I got out for a walk although it was cut short by the threat of rain.  We were on the other side of island with a stiff wind and big clouds so we cut across the middle of the island.
I want to post a picture of our walk and the app which keeps track of my work count down. I’ve used this app for years to count down to vacation.  I’ll post the text and then come back and add the pictures.

Fort Flagler – Saturday May 3, 2014

Nice sunny morning, temp at 60 degrees, setting outside listening to Wait Wait.
We have been working on our retirement count down. Jean’s last day will be June 30th and mine will be July 3rd – that is 61 calendar days with 42 work days. I’m not sure how to type and express how much we are looking forward to this event but we are.

Current plan is to spend July and August at Crystal Mountain hiking and enjoying the mountains. I will be 64 this year and not sure how many years Hank and I will be able to climb up a mountain side. Last week in August we will move south to spend Labor Day in Reno with my brother than on to Zion National Park for two weeks starting September 10th. Than on to Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The goal is to be home for Thanksgiving and Christmas than south in February/March to be in Phoenix for spring training. We will spend the spring in the Southwest and home for the “Summer”.

That is our current plan. Stay tuned for July 3rd count down and follow the adventure. I still plan on posting a picture of each campsite.

Have a great day, in 3 hours and 10 minutes it will be 60 days.