I stepped on the scale this morning and I'm still holding at 248 which is good considering I snacked a lot yesterday in between meals. Will do better today, may even take a walk if it's not raining. Tried pulling the pump this morning but I need a wrench with 3 1/2 inch jaws to get the pump intake loose. Visited Sears to look at tools. Bought an oil filter wrench which has large jaws. did not buy the socket set but I was tempted. Also stopped at K-Mart and looked at their tools and bikes but let empty handed. Surprisingly Ace hardware was gone. It's a hole next to K-Mart. Took the spa pump out - the filter wrench worked perfectly. This will be useful for oil changes. Tried repairing the starter mechanism in the motor but so far no love. I found a writers contest on Literotica with a nude theme. I started writing my entry which has a new couple moving to a housing development and the homeowners decides to have a nude welcome party. Worked outside a little on the grow boxes. I will need to put in the bigger stakes. Dinner was cucumber salad with bean burger and the dwindling Vidalia. After dinner I worked on my contest entry. Entries can begin June 20.

I'm recovering somewhat from our trip of overeating. When I got back I was over 250 but this morning the scale read 249. I'm getting back down and hopefully it will be 240 by the Gesneriad trip. I spent some time today reading some of the author writings on asstr. Because my own Disney Story was rated at 5th grade level I tried some of the other authors. They were in the 1st to 3rd grade levels so I don't feel too bad. I'll have to try some of the professional authors. I took the hot tube apart because the new 20 amp fuse I bought didn't do the trick. The motor is still stalled. Emptied it and it started working but as Libbie started filling it with our new cut off garden hose it stalled again. I'll have to pull the motor. Dinner was corn on the cob and bean burger with vidalia.

Did the grocery thing. Today is a very dark, rainy glum day. It's not even hot. Researched bicycles and also went to Walmart late in the day to look for a Next Avalon Comfort bike on their website. They hardly had any bikes. Picked up "Daddys Girl" at the library on this trip. This book was on the rack at the Philly airport yesterday so I'll try it. Worked a lot of the day on my Disney story. I was disappointed to see Google say that it was written at the fifth grade level. I opened an account on ASSTR but it takes a while for an admin to assign me a directory and password. Dinner tonight was the pasta I picked up in Trader Joes.

We got up our usual time, around 6:30. We went downstairs, poured some coffee and sat out on the porch of the Angel facing the Ocean watching the mocking birds chase blackbirds and listening to a song bird. It was a most pleasant morning.Breakfast was a little late but I didn't mind. I had French Toast on a layer of Bananas Foster. It was good but I'm not a fancy breakfast person. We then rode bikes on beach towards town. When it got a little busy we turned around and stopped at a few fenced in gardens that I photographed. Takeoff was planned for 10 which we did OK. I bought Libbie a piece of jewelry from the display case next to the desk. We took the Parkway for $1 and the Atlantic City Expressway for $3 without incident. Had to pay $4 on the Walt Whitman bridge to get back into Philly. Had a little trouble finding airport gas - a lot of the stations weren't there anymore which was surprising. Got to Hertz OK, we had one minor incident in that our wheel cover was missing. We told Hertz we left the terminal without the wheel cover. They didn't charge us for it. Found out our flight was delayed 30 minutes on the board. We enjoyed the brand new Southwest terminal. They have lots of security screening stations. Our flight ended up being late one hour due to storms in St Louis. They claimed the airport there was closed for a while. The flight was smooth except for the last 15 minutes. We had to descend through some thick clouds which was very bumpy. Waiting for the shuttle took a while. Our shuttle took 15 minutes - when the shuttle finally arrived it was full. We had to wait for the next one. Got home around 5 PM. All was well except we left the door to the garage open and left the kitchen light on. My dinner tonight was veggie pizza bu lean cuisine. This is a nice 300 calorie dinner.

We had a leisurely morning. Coffee on the porch then breakfast at 8. I had pancakes with cinnamon and nuts. I'm not a fancy breakfast person. My preference is shredded wheat and milk. Arlene and Rich came over at 10 and we wen biking with them. It was a lot of fun being on a bike for the first time in a long time. The weather was threatening so Rich went back home to Piscataway. Lib and I walked an arts and crafts festival in tents on the board walk. We had lunch at McGlades. I had a crab cake sandwich. Arlene biked over in the afternoon and we biked back with her until the crow got heavy so we turned around and came home. We enjoyed tea and pastreis then had wine and cheese at 5:30. Walked the beach after the guards went home at 4. Went to sunset Beach for the sunset at 8 and then to the Lobster House again for seafood dinner on the dock again. We bought a glass of Chardonnay to have with dinner then back home and to bed.

We got up at 5 and out the door as planned around 5:20. We parked at the Relax and Park over on 70. They gave us afree paper and got us to the terminal on time. We were already checked in on Southwest and we carried our luggage so we went straight to the gate. The flight went well except they had to slow us down enroute because of traffic in Philly. We got to the terminal at 8:30 and by 8:42 we were in a Silver Toyota Corolla from Hertz. I had the GPS hooked up to take us to Our Lady of Angels which was right on mile 9 of the Garden State. We got off an exit or two beforehand looking for a diner for Libbie but we found a Dunkin donuts instead. I had a plain bagel with coffee. I bought a cup of coffee in Terminal 1 this morning which was the worst coffee I ever had - it tasted like instant. We got to the church around 10 which was outstanding. The baptism was very nice. We next went to McGlades which was right on the ocean. I ordered a crab salad platter which was crab cake with fruits and potato salad. Yummy!!! Next we checked into the Angel then went to Jessicas for a family party afterwards. We missed tea and wine/cheese at the Angel. Afterwards we met Arlene & Rich at the Lobster House. We had a very nice seafood dinner on the docks next to the fishing boats. It was cold and a little misty. Libbie was out from under the shed and thus got a little wet. She was wearing a sweater Arlene gave her which was Mom's at one time but is now Jessica's. We had a pitcher of beer with the seafood. My plate besides slaw and baked potato had scallops, crab, fish, shrimp and deviled crab. Didn't care for the deviled crab. We went back and readily fell asleep.

Today I spent a lot of the day writing my "Disney Trip" which is an imaginary story about a student and teacher who visit Disney World. This evening I distributed the MAAVS eMemo but had trouble with Yahoo putting an hourly limit on my messages. This sucks. I switched to Google who I'll use in the future. Walked the hill - they have the roof framing on Lot 67. Dinner was a beanburger with Vidalia.

We did more cleanup this morning. libbie really worked hard. We left at 11:15 for the Hilton. all were there in the Starbucks except for Laurene who was lost. We had to start the tour without her. Tina bought us lunch in the Hilton which was nice. We found Michelle and Betsy were on a diet so the wine and desert I bought at Trader Joes after the Hilton meeting were not necessary. At the Hilton I had a Cuban while in the evening we went to La Cocina where I had a "Tommy Salad" which was filled with beef, chicken and shrimp. Excellent. We stayed up talking with Betsy and Michelle afterwards until almost 11 PM.

After breakfast I got busy cleaning the kitchen floor. started by using the swiffer then brought the shop vac in for heavy duty dirt. Filled the pail with Mop and Glow and proceeded to sponge mop the kitchen floor. The sponge broke off the holder - it seemed to be glued on. I completed the mopping and made a mental note to replace the sponge in my next shopping trip. It rained pretty hard last night so I don't have to water anything outside this morning. Setup my creative writing Disney Trip on google docs instead of using ultraedit. Google Docs is pretty good at this. Worked until about 4:15 then left for the airport for Libbie's 4:40 flight which was 12 minutes late according to tracking. Waited in the Sheetz parking lot until Libbie called. Despite the call I still had to circle the terminals 3 times before she got her suitcase back. At home we added the finishing touches by vacuuming upstairs and dusting. We had Trader Joes pasta for dinner. After dinner i listened to Tuesdays with Morrie some more.

I did the groceries today, put the garbage out last night including the greenhouse garbage. Outdoors I fertilized everything with some Osmocote I brought home yesterday. Went to work on bug killer - mixed up 2 gallons and heavily sprayed every baseboard in the place and also swiffered the dining room and foyer. Tomorrow I'll wash the kitchen floor and probably also vacuum the downstairs.

Went over to Ollies to look at A/C units and also shop for a refrigerator for the greenhouse. The 8,000 BTU portable unit is $249. They didn't have refrigerators. Next stop was Best Buy for a GPS case on sale plus I had a $5 coupon. The case is a little big but will do. Went to Home Depot - no refrigerators there. Next was Lowes - bought a rescue Hibiscus but I found Libbie has four of them. Oh well. Stopped into Trader Joes and picked up some fruit and Indian rice. Dinner was a beanburger with Vidalia. Love these things and I'm losing weight!

Slept in a little today. Got the paper but before finishing it Libbie wanted me to bring some invoices to the greenhouse. It turned out Jennifer never went over there. Took a newspaper coupon to OfficeMax and bought a new phone for downstairs after cheking on phone prices in Target. The economy is supposed to be bad but there was a line waiting to get into iHop and Target had lots of people. I'm doing good at cutting back on eating - lost a few pounds. Took a walk around Seagroves to check out construction progress. Enjoyed the view by the pool. Dinner was a lean cuisine pizza. Afterwards I watched the Tony awards. Pretty nice cast numbers by West side story, Hair and others.

It's a rainy day. Not much to do outside so I worked on the LinPHA database. Added playboy issues to the database on Traviata. I also started a separate Linpha database for Art. This is far superior to the Gallery program I previously was using.

Tom Herner measured our pressure this morning - all was well he said. The air output is low from the upstairs unit. I looked in Graingers and also took apart the furnace to look at what is in there for a blower. It is severely undersized. Dinner was a bean burger and Vidalia.

Took a trip to Ollies in Cary and looked at portable A/C units. also took a look around the store. Tried out the home A/C and do not like the upstairs performance. Made an appointment with Tom Herner for tomorrow morning. Dinner was beanburger and vidalia.

Worked in the back mowing some more. Use the mower and cleared the second path on the septic beds then tried using the mower to cut a path back to the Glembocki Oak. The mower ran out of gas before I finished. I had several tick bites doing this task. It's disconcerting because I don't find them until they're biting and I'm always not sure if I found them all.

I'm alone today. Got up early as usual (6:15) and took the garbage can and recycle bin out to the street. I'm hoping to start dieting todsy. Will take a walk at noon. I really like the Traviata server. I'm looking at building a php application for my pdf collection which contains playboys and many other magazines.

I worked a little in the yard today. Had to bring the checkbook and some squirt bottles over to the greenhouse for Libbie. Used the blower and cleaned off the brick sidewalk. Left home at 5:30 to take Libbie to the airport for her Providence trip.

After reading the paper I went outside and worked on finishing the rabbit fence and string trimming the yard. Planted the gardenia and mulched with the additional bag of mulch purchased when I got the gardenia. Built ome trellises and tied up the cucumbers, tomato and egg plant. An overall satisfying day! I worked on finishing the VideoDb and analyzing some image php programs. I want to display my pdf collection using a php script. Dinner was Libbie's super pizza. Afterward I watched the MTV movie awards. some of the ladies are wearing pretty short and tight skirts. I didn't really like the show.

I essentially took today off. I re-organized the 2004 images. These images contain the Cape May pictures and I wanted them in the correct date order using my new way of identifying pictures. Discovered a program on Sourceforge called Videodb. This nice program accesses the imagedb database for your movie collection. I entered all my movies and had the program look them up. The smaller opening fence seems to work - I have a video of the baby bunny trying to get through the fence. Dinner was salmon and yam.

I spent most of the morning up on the hill working on a downed tree on the Septic bed. Later I found that the rabbit ate two of the Dahlias. I went to Home Depot and got some 1 inch mesh poultry netting and lined the inside of the fence. I was really tired. Dinner was yams and stuffed flounder. No wine!

I mowed the backyard today which was a tiring experience. Had to refill the mower tank once. Dinner was the Indonesian rice with chicken chunks.

Took the mower and made a new path to the Glembocki Oak along the creek bed. When I got to the septic bed I mowed all the sapling stubs so the field is completely cleared. I may take the tiller and look for the gravel beds to identify the drain field.

Back to the grocery store today after a few week absence. IT's raining again but I managed to go up the hill with my trimmer and do a little cleanup. Next I took the mower and made a path along the creek reaching the septic field. Up there I proceeded to mow the field about halfway. Couldn't cross over a dead tree that was down. Dinner was beanburger with Vidalia.

Not as planned. Libbie called at 9:00 that a fan relay was stuck. Rounded up all my things and went over and rebuilt the relay for Fan 1. The contacts are bad. Now I need an MOV device to suppress further pitting. In the meantime, Fan 3 was hardly turning. Went home, got a new belt and installed it. It was the same 4L550 that it already had but the old was apparently stretched with no more adjustment left. At home it was pouring rain so I went to Kroger's for a watermelon before replacing the fan belt. After the belt went to Ace to get oil to mix with gas for the string trimmer. Cut down the saplings growing over the septic field. Libbie came home and we had Nathans hot dogs with Vidalia onion and beans and rice. Took a walk back up the hill after lunch to show Libbie the cutting and also to investigate a truck we heard back in the field. Bought a 4L540 and a 4L550 belt on eBay.