Boy's and Girl's Camps

I just finished the second of two one day camping adventures. Girl's camp was a week ago at Lake Wappapello. The water was still up on the lake so no swimming or canoeing this year. At least there was none while I was there. I pretty much watch the girls do all the work while I watched the grass grow. Two guys are supposed to be at the camp but have no expectations of doing anything and I'm pretty good at that.
Boy's camp was at S Bar F this year. I was fixated on getting a picture of a lizard I spotted on one of the countless trees. He was a good sport but we did play a bit of hide and seek as he wasn't all that thrilled with this giant human taking pictures. The boys seemed to enjoy camp and built a platform to sleep on. All in all, a good two visits to the outdoors.

KFVS Ten Years

This is the end of year 9 plus 365 days at KFVS-TV. Today closes out my tenth year with the television station in Cape Girardeau. It has been a great ten years! I can't ask for two better bosses in Mike Smythe and Joe Trepasso. This September will mark 20 years that I have known Mike, first as a friend at WITN-TV in Washington, North Carolina and later as my supervisor. The world has surely changed in the ten years. There are so many memories with more to come.

Ten Years

One million strides

Eight weeks ago I joined with five hundred or so on a one week measurement of our steps. I picked up a new pedometer from Saint Francis Medical Center where we work out four or five times a week. A contributed 125,000 that week or the 15 million counted. Many, without pedometers, also joined in and estimated their steps. Yesterday, while working a summer basketball camp I hit my one millionth stride. I also counted time on the elliptical. The most amazing part was me keeping up with the pedometer and remembering to wear it every day!

Biking

I've added biking to my list of exercises. I picked up and did some mending of a mountain bike and had Adam Sparks do some fine tuning. I've already biked thirty miles on two occasions. The first was by accident. I had only planned on a ten mile trip but failed to make a left turn when I should. That added six miles and inspired me to go marathon distance. I pushed it passed thirty miles before arriving back at home two and a half hours later. I really enjoyed seeing parts of Cape County I hadn't seen before.

KFVS Fun Run

The Fun Run turned out to be just that. I got to Race Central about an hour early. I was really excited and ready for the race to begin. I was planning on running with Todd Richards but started running too fast and lost track of him. I took my Flip camera with me and started shooting video while running. Adrenalin does wonders as I ran the race a few seconds under 29 minutes which was nearly four minutes faster than my best time. It was nice to run a race that mattered. Well, almost mattered. I finished third in my age group but nowhere near the others.

Catching up

Forgot how to do this for a bit; so am catching up. Rain dominated our spring. It seemed as though it would never stop. Hard to imagine how someone who lives at one of the highest points in Cape could get water in the basement but we did. I chipped in by not cleaning out the gutters. I had to cut up some of the sheet rock to find the leak and after several attempts with an instant drying mortar mix managed to stop the water flow. A hundred or so gallons of water were dry vacced (sp?) out. Now the fix. Can't do any complaining with all the severe problems others have encountered. East Cape still has flooding concerns!

KFVS Fun Run

I'm getting ready for the KFVS 12 Fun Run. It's the first year I've been able to run the 5K course. I ran 6.2 miles a few weeks ago and another 6 today so there is no trouble making the course. I checked last year's results and all the 55-59 year old runners are faster than me. Why am I not surprised.
We have an Easter egg hunt at the church this evening. It's for kids and adults. This should be a lot of fun and beats sitting at home and watching it rain.

Early spring

Keeping up with the weather certainly can't be a focal point of these posts but a brief glimpse of spring is here. After what seemed to be unending days of frigid (OK, maybe not frigid but we are in the south!) temperatures, the thermometer crept into the 50s on Saturday. It might even reach 60 this week. We'll drop back to normal soon but it's great to get a sniff of what is to come.

Getting started

I decided it is time to keep up with Aubrey and Chelsea by creating our own blog. Hopefully, this will be more about the family as a whole. It may also be a better way to see what has happened throughout the year when it's time for the annual Christmas letter. Put it this way: my memory isn't getting any better!