My 82nd Birthday

November Friday the 13th, no less, was my 82nd birthday! Holly took me to Elizabeth's on 37th Street near downtown Savannah for dinner. This self portrait reflects my happiness with the love of my life!
The menu: Butternut Squash Soup, poured at the table over 4 shrimp in the bowl, a single muscle in a delicious sauce (muscle from Canada) and the entree, Grouper baked with pepper like crust, served over dollar sized sliced potato. Apple fennel on the side. All done with perfect presentations! And of course, Shiraz wine that was perfect. While this restaurant is expensive, it's the best restaurant in Savannah to take a date, partner or friend if you really want to impress! Excellent food and great wines!
The link to this restaurant: http://www.elizabethon37th.net/

Trailblazer Ride

In Savannah Georgia there is a road that leads to Tybee Island, a beach community at the very end of US 80, a cross country highway. A very dangerous road on the causeway leading to the island for bicyclist. This event was to raise money for the East Coast Greenway which eventually will be a bike/pedestrian trail for Maine to the Florida Keys. Promoted by the Savannah Bicycle Campaign, 150 people showed up to ride with a police escort from Tybee to Johnson Square in downtown Savannah, a 21 mile distance ridden by all types of cyclist.
More about this event that happened today:

http://bicyclecampaign.org/tybee-to-savannah-trailblazers-ride/

Pictures below are SCAD bike club marshals, registration, Me and Pam, the riders ready to roll and on the road (Paul Wolff just ahead of people in yellow) on his Easy Rider bicycle, a Tybee City Councilman who had never ridden 21 miles! Paul is a politician who strongly believes in better bicycling!

Pagey's First Halloween!

This is Page, Holly's most recent granddaughter's first Halloween! Looks not too happy with this cute costume!

Holly's Family

This picture was taken on Vail Mountain, Vail Colorado by Janet Beck, Holly's sister. Included in the picture are all (except one granddaughter) of Holly's children and grandchildren. The affair was David Page's and Breezy's wedding atop this mountain at 11,300 feet above sea level. Beautiful as beautiful can be. A very happy, loving and generous group of people you will ever meet!

The Obama Administration as one person see

I find this a good appraisal of the current Presidents Administration!

Check out this article:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/56091

Relatives I don't see often

From Left to right: Mike, Steve, Don (Dad) and Ken. Don (dad) is my brother in law. Lives in Amarillo, TX. Don married my wife sister after we all four finished Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, AL or a few year afterward. Don had a great career in the USAF, retiring as a Colonel., I believe. I had a career in industrial management and later in sales. My four children and Don's five children (his two girls are not pictured) played together on several occasions, but mostly when they lived next door to us in Pinopolis, SC while Don was in Vietnam. Lot's of good memories between our two families! It's good to see the boys and Don, we have all aged, but still happy. It is a pleasure to know that I have more hair on my head than all four of my relatives!

Harvest of Hope Ride, Oct 10, 2009

The picture above was taken after the ride around 6:00pm at Memorial Health in Savannah.. The video below was taken at the start in Augusta at about 7:10am These people were almost as fresh after the ride as before!

This video was taken under the portico of the Marriott in Augusta on the Savannah River just before the 70 guys and gals started to pedal from Augusta, GA to Savannah, GA, a distance of about 140 miles in one day!

Had one accident where one nice lady got tangled with another rider, went down and broke her arm. She was taken back to Augusta for surgery. Her husband abandoned the ride to go with her.

Those things happen from time to time on events like this and it's very regretful, but that's the risk of bicycle events.

Wish her a speedy recovery!