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!