New Year’s Day 5-mile bike ride and finish with Gumbo! What a way to start the new year! A friend of mine who is a local and well known chef hosted a bike ride and lunch of gumbo with rice and cornbread muffins (…

National Airborne Day – August 16th I meant to post about this back in August but neglected to do so. Some of you may know I was a paratrooper (Airborne) and served in the U.S. Army, 1st Special Operations C…

Oh no, another cold! Right before the Christmas holiday, of course! The Wednesday before, Sensei Oliver was not feeling well and asked me if I could cover the Wednesday night adult class. The class went well but…

Happy Holidays! I really enjoy the window of holidays starting with Halloween, then Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New year! Putting up lights then taking them down. I don’t mind as I love being outside in the c…

Rain, wind and blackout! The rain is wonderful! We need it! Lots of it! More of it! The wind I could do without, but it’s just part of the weather equation. We had several large trees that blew over in the East S…