Thursday 4/30

Well April showers are supposed to be gone and May flowers are to arrive. Forecast is for rain for Fri thru Mon and we are still waiting on most of the flowers to start blooming.
Just got back from the morning walk and it does feel like rain. At least the body joints are saying so.
Yesterday was kind of a goof off day. Got a lot of small things done, but did not tackle the mulch. Looks now like it will be next week for that.
Have an appointment at 1:30 with the Tribunal Priest. Hopefully it won't take more than an hour.
Need to get to Masonic Village and get my Mom's wash. I would suspect they will quarantine the place when the first case of flu shows up. Maybe I can get it today and back tomorrow. I do her wash about every two weeks.
Jack and I decided no beach this weekend since its to rain down there until Tuesday.
There's things to do around Hershey on Saturday and his back yard buddy should be home for Sunday.
Well, off to the shower.

Charley

Tuesday 4/28

Got Jack off to school and then went to Costco to get the tires on the Durango balanced and rotated. Ran to Steelton to get an exhaust fan for the beach house. They were out but the more fans were shipped and are due this week. Came home, had lunch and cut the grass. Jack and I just finished supper. His den is not meeting tonight so we have a free evening. The cold front is due through tonight. High tomorrow only 57. Will feel nice after 5 days in the 90's. Ice Cream Corner is open, so maybe Jack & I will run over there a little later.

Monday evening.

Well, went to the bank, had the oil changed in the Durango, got some food. Went by the car wash and it had a fifteen car line so came home and washed both cars in the driveway.
Shell called and I picked her up before Jack got home. She waited and said goodbye to him and headed for Baltimore. Jack and I went to his drum lessons and then to the Soda Jerk for supper. Now at home, both of us in PJ's just veging. Tired from being out in the heat. Tied old record of 92 for today. I can't take the heat as well as I used to. Dancing with the Stars on soon. Got hooked on it from the start. will either go to Root's (farmers market) or get the tires balanced and rotated tomorrow. Will decide in the morning.


Charley

A beautiful summer?? morning in April.

90's in April?? Got up this AM and the house was still hot. Had the windows open all night and it was 86 in the house at 10PM. Only went down to 79 inside overnight. After I got back from taking Shell to work, I closed up and turned the air on set at 75. It's supposed to be 91 here in Hershey today.

Shell leaves tonight for San Antonio, TX for her annual ONS national conference. She's presenting a four hour mini session on Wednesday. Will be back home next Sunday, so Jack and I will have a boys week.

Will decide by Thursday if we are going to the beach. Probably will, since he only has a half day of school on Friday.

Just now got back from my daily walk with Charlie my neighbor. We do about 3 miles every morning after Jack leaves for school. Walked over by Rt 422 to see the sink hole that has the east bound lanes closed. It's a small cavern under both lanes. Penndot was getting ready to dig about a 30 ft section of the road.

Need to run some errands locally and do some grocery shopping and then will decide what else I'll do for the day. Still have mulch to spread in the back, but will probably wait until tomorrow or Wednesday when it's cooler. Jack has his drum lessons after school today, so won't get into too much.

Later.

Charley

back in Hershey

Safely back in Hershey. Going to chill the rest of the day in our 89 degree weather.

Sunday 4/26

Planned to sleep in, but was wide awake at 0615. Had my coffee, walked the dog and been talking with my son Jack, who was already up at 0615. Will chill some this morning before heading back to Hershey. My friend, Rich, came along this trip. It was his first trip helping to work on the lighthouse. Gladly, I didn't work him too hard and he wants to come back again. It's already 73 and they are calling for another 88 to 90 degree day. Tempting to stay all day. Will have to see what Rich wants to do.

Charley

Lighthouse work party 4/25

What a beautiful day to be out on the water. Sunny and ended up going to 91 degrees. We arrived at the finger pier at the Cape May-Lewes Ferry at 0730 unloaded the vehicles. The Delaware Bay Launch work boat arrived at 0755, we loaded our tools and materials and off we were to Harbor of Refuge. Our main goal was to prep the lower dock for the Army Corps of Engineers to offload the new caisson door this coming week. WE had it finished before noon and we also got the new steps to the upper dock in place, repaired the substructure of the upper dock and got the safety system in place marking the edges of the dock. Plus the interior of the lighthouse was cleaned in preparation of our summer tours. We were picked up by the work boat at 1420 and stopped at Delaware East End to inspect it in preparation for our tours. It also with stood the winter. Back on shore a little after 1400 and thus ended another successful work trip.

At the Beach

9:28 PM EDT

At the beach house getting ready for bed. Will be up at 6 AM to start breakfast and then to Lewes to unload the vehicles and load the work boat for an 8 AM departure to Harbor of Refuge. Will be there until about 3 PM and will stop for an inspection of Delaware East End Light on the way back to the finger pier at the Lewes-Cape May ferry Terminal.

More tomorrow night.

Charley

Heading to the Delaware beach

2:52 PM EDT

Heading to the Delaware beach in about an hour. Going to work on Harbor of Refuge Lighthouse tomorrow getting it ready for the tours this summer. I belong to the Delaware River and Bay Lighthouse Foundation and we own Harbor of Refuge. We are restoring it and offer tours along with Delaware East End Lighthouse which is owned by the State of Delaware. If you are interested go to the website
--- http://www.delawarebaylights.org/ ---


and sign up for a tour. Or better yet become a member and come help us restore the lighthouse.

I'll post pictures and what we did on our work party which is all day tomorrow April 25.


Charley