Brining My Blog Up To Date.

I guess I have been rather lax in keeping things up to date. Life has been very stressful and pressure packed lying around the pool all day. Biggest decisions being made are wether to toast my front or back in the brilliant sun

Weeks leading up to the Sebring Race

The first week was rather quiet and relaxed. Did a bit of tanning, laid around the pool, BBQ'd some dead animal flesh and consumed a few pints of beer.

We took a day trip to Fort Pierce (75 miles away) to visit the nearest Costco. Shopped, had some lunch and did a bit of sightseeing.

Highlite of the week was the fishing endeavours of a blue heron. I was down on the dock with my camera when he swooped in and snagged an 18" pike. The fish was almost big enough to bite of the heron's head. He dashed it to the ground a few times then swallowed it in one gulp..greedy bugger.

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Our friends Dennis and Mary arrived from New Hampshire for a two week stay and we celebrated by hoisting some alcoholic beverage and having a BBQ.

The Sebring 12 Hours of Endurance

Bob and Paul arrived on the Tuesday and we had our Tech crew of myself, Bill, Dennis, Bob and Paul at hand for the Wednesday Tech session.

We started our part of the race weekend on Wednesday with our 98 entries. The vintage portion of the weekend had more entries than the 12 Hour and all its supporting races. We had two entries from Port Perry Ontario. Markus Glarner and Aram Tourikian in their BMW M1's. Both made impressive showings a walked off with a couple of 1st and 2nd medals each. Arams weekend was not without incident as he took an agricultural tour of the track in the ensuing rain. An all nighter by the crew got the car back in shape for the following days sprint races.

Entry for the 12 Hour was a total of 28 cars. Two withdrew and one could not start to make it to the grid. A grand total of 25 starters. I believe this is the smallest entry and starting field in the 57 year history of the race. A sign of economic times....maybe. For those interested, a small photo essay of the race can be found at: http://public.fotki.com/colin1944/sebring-2009/

Many parties and BBQ's followed the event and a goodtime was had by all. Bob and Paul headed for home on Sunday morning and our crew at the house was reduced to Bill, Dennis, Mary, Linda and myself.

Bill and Paul relaxing after a hard day at the track

On the 26th, Dennis and Mary headed home and were replaced by friends Gary and Jackie from Oshawa.

We are now on a relaxing schedule for two weeks until we head up to Savannah for another race event. In the meantime, if anything exciting happens I will post it here. If not, assume that we are lying by the pool, enjoying some alcoholic libation and soaking up those god old UV rays from the sun.

Ta Ta for now.

Sunrise

on our little piece of the Lake June canal system.

Surprising what great pictures await at the crack of dawn. Life is really relaxed this week. Nothing to do but lie around the pool, catch a few rays of sunshine and kick back with a margarita.

Yesterday we drove 70 miles into Fort Myers to visit the nearest Costco. Picked up tons of dead animal flesh to feed the BBQ for the next few weeks. Bought a 24lb roast of beef to put on the smoker next weekend for the 12 Hour race.

Actually went into the swimming pool yesterday afternoon. First time in probably 20 years. At Linda's daring, I produced a cannonball that reduced the volume of water in the pool by at least 50%.

All is well. Daytime temperatures in the mid to high 80's, nighttime in the low 60's.....perfect. There is a horrible rumour that there is a cold front moving in that may adjust our daytime temps down into the 60's.....arrrrrgh!

Friends Dennis and Mary are arriving sometime around lunch tomorrow.......the more the merrier.

HSR and Sebring

What can I say....it is a tough life

Our first full week and Florida is great. Weather is a constant low to mid 80's everyday with night time temperatures dipping to the low 60's.....PERFECT!

Not really too much to tell. A great weekend for the HSR races. Approx. 215 competitors, an all around great weekend. For full pictures of the HSR event, go to: http://public.fotki.com/colin1944/hsr-svra--sebring-2009/

A week of not much to do. Tomorrow we head to Fort Myers to visit the local (closest) Costco so we can bulk buy some meat and poultry for the upcoming festivities. Friends Dennis and Mary will be joining us mid week with Bob and Paul coming in after the weekend.

We Are Here!!!!!!

Neither wind nor snow nor sleet nor rain shall keep the King's from their appointed rental in Lake Placid. We arrived around 4:00pm and met with the owner of the property, have our keys and have moved in for two months. Digital photography does much to enhance the qualities of properties. The house is everything it was advertised, the inground pool, wellllll. Lets put it this way. If I were to jump in I could probably empty the pool of water. It is about the size of an eight person hottub. Not big but adequate I guess.

Our friend Biil joined us about 5:00 in the afternoon and will be sharing our abode for the next two months. Lots of room..four bedrooms and two bathrooms.

With the Sebring 12 Hours of Endurance coming up, we will be having guests Dennis and Mary and Bob and Paul joining us in a couple of weeks. A full house but promising to be lots of fun.

Weather sucks right now....68F, overcast and threatening rain. It is supposed to clear up and heading into the low 80's by Wednesday.

Ya Gotta Be Kidding!!!!!!

Here we are sitting in a nice Hotel room in Kingsland Ga. Weather forecast.....Tornado warnings, 5-6" of snow in Atlanta, 12" of snow in Alabama. Temperature has dropped 34 degrees in 8 hours.....what gives here? Starting to think we should have stayed at home.

We had planned on a liesurely dive down 1A1 this morning, stopping at our fav. lunch spot and then a tour down through Daytona for bike week. Think I am going to hit I-95 and head straight for Sebring.

Hope central Florida has better weather.