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| Ron Loves Cynthia "I DO !!" |
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| Ron hiking in Virginia (is for lovers) |
17 May: We plan to ride back to our condo in Rehoboth Beach today.
16 May: We came here to attend the May meeting of the Swedish Colonial Society. Cynthia has her speech planned and e-mailed the "handout" already. Ron is the final speaker of the afternoon and plans to ask for questions instead of presenting a prepared speech.
15 May: The forecast has changed, and we could have ridden up this afternoon as easily as yesterday. We enjoyed lunch at Lehman’s and dined here again with Jean C. this evening. She is a delight. Jean took the picture of us, but the one of the three of us was not good.
14 May in Essington, PA: Rain is forecast for this afternoon through Thursday on Tinicum Island (click here), where we have hotel reservations and plans. We left at noon, a day early, and enjoyed a three hour ride except for the stop-and-go traffic for a mile or two on I-95 through Chester, PA. (Cynthia forgot to mention several miles of riding through very light rain and drizzle.) We ate dinner at Denny's across the highway and walked to Lehman's (click here) to make reservations for tomorrow and Thursday before continuing on to see the Lazretto (click here). They've done a beautiful restoration of this fine old building on the water next to Gov. Printz Park.
13 May: The day after the big birthday was a quiet day, pleasant, with two walks totaling five miles. Rain is forecast for Wednesday here and in Essington. We will decide tomorrow about leaving for Essington a day early.
12 May, Sunday, Mother's Day: Happy Birthday SMOOCH! I thank God for you every day! Trifecta: Mother's Day, 13th anniversary and 77th birthday for Ron, that lucky guy. We enjoyed a lovely dinner with Dean and Janina at Fins Ale House (click here).
11 May: Rehoboth Beach, DE on a sunny, pleasant day, we maintain our every day too busy schedule, taking breaks only to eat and walk to buy food to eat.
10 May: We are celebrating our 13th honeymoon at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Ron continues editing Cynthia’s four transcriptions that go into the appendices and is making good progress. Cynthia sent Mother’s Day blessings to every mother in western civilization. (and to all of their children and grandchildren - just to be sure she didn't miss anyone.) We started out on walk #1 at three PM and were blasted back into the house by a prevading mist, potentially indicating forthcoming drips from the heavens. We walked to ALDI a half hour later for frozen mango - and purchased the last three bags. Dean called to let us know that their family had great fun in Sarasota on vacation, mangrove kayaking, e-bicycling, etc.
9 May: Exercised, oatmealed, and into electronics until high noon-thirty when we walked to Stephen’s Hair Salon for the bride’s haircut.
8 May: Another day but not like the other day - - - thank God. Ron is slaving away over James Lea yet again, appendix number 8. Cynthia recounts a harrowing tale: “This is a copy of the report I filed after a frightening cell phone scam. COMPLAINT FORM: I received a phone call this morning from someone sounding exactly like my grandson 3468185473, Cypress, Texas; he was crying that he was in jail, that he had rear-ended a pregnant woman, the baby died, and the mother’s life was in peril. I was to call an attorney Jack Davidson 4432962016 who then reported my grandson faced manslaughter charges and needed bail money. The bail bond was thirty five thousand dollars, but he, attorney, had gotten it reduced to twelve thousand dollars. I explained I did not have that cash. He asked how much I had. He put me on hold to request a bail bond reduction to the amount of cash I had. My eyes opened to a scam. He told me to go to a nearby Walgreens and say I wanted to send money to the Dominican Republic Capitol: RIA DAMIAN ALBERTO SALCEDO BAEZ. I immediately texted to verify my grandson was present teaching school.” It was terrifyingly real until the bond reduction opened my eyes to the scam.
7 May: Ron is focused editing and preparing twenty-three appendices for the Lea book, each one with several pages. We could have a whole book of appendices! Cynthia used her MacBook computer to complete a pile of paperwork to submit a claim to recover unclaimed property. She prefers using the IPad since it is much easier for one finger typing. On the computer, it too easy to forget and slip into ten finger typing, which irritates her Sagittal band issues. We had two walks to three grocery stores. Our walking total was four miles.
6 May: We did all of the usual stuff staying crazy busy, making the circuit shopping at all of the grocery stores. That upped the total number of steps for the day to 11,456 or 4.5 miles. The best part of the day was dining at Seedbol. Ron’s knee is complaining tonight, as it has for a week now.
5 May, Sunday: Fascinating that when we go to bed at 11:30 PM, we don’t get rolling until 11:30 AM the next morning, and Cynthia is still fatigued. She reports that sitting makes her hungry. She likes the adrenalin rush that comes from moving, but she is moving cautiously until confirming that her torn hamstring tendon is healing. It complains at times. Today wind gusts are up to 24 MPH, so sitting inside working on computers seems like such a good idea. Oh goodie, and now rain is supposed to begin in ten minutes. We attempted to walk, and it did rain on us. Word from daughter Julie, that our eleventh great-grandchild will be a girl, Delilah Jo. Nine greats will be under five years of age. The other two are 7 and 10, six girls and five boys. With the arrival of Delilah Jo, Cynthia will have equal numbers of grandchildren and great grandchildren. I'm guessing that won't last long. Ron finished preliminaries for three appendices (out of 20).
4 May: already !! We are up, exercised, fed and working. Cynthia spent an hour on the phone with Amazon delivery because her vitamins were dropped into an inaccessible locked mailbox despite instructions to deliver the package to the front door. Ron is working on James Lea appendices after several days of successful avoidance, especially by staying up late watching Vintage Basketball on TV, fascinated by "Pistol" Pete Maravich and Larry Bird.
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| view from Rehoboth Beach boardwalk |
Tooth of May: Oops, 82° heat, our motorcycle ride to P.O. and Fresh Market is postponed until tomorrow.
Oneth of May: Turn the page, sing and shout, rattle your tambourines, “Hooray, hooray for the twelfth of May, Ron's birthday and our thirteenth Wedding Anniversary approach,” a double reason to dance a jig (dance two jigs?). We have reservations for dinner with Dean and Janina at Fin’s Ale House. Finally at high noon on the oneth of May, we exercised and ate. Who knows what is next? Ron is very frustrated with Google again today. He wants to get his Burton Third Bombers web site found by Google, but Google has such complex instructions for authenticating ownership that it is impossible, so he is driven to insert the URL here: https://sites.google.com/view/burton3rdbombers . The other reason is to see if Google search will find a Google Doc for BTB history: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ahC0IwdCVi9Xu9OWQyFrd-g300ckHA9hAGpcRdPgNPw/view
