My mother and father-in-law live on a river’s inlet. They have several boats and they like to invite company to their place frequently for boat rides. The last time we went to see them we were talking about the many types of boating navigation and marine electronics tools there are on the market nowadays. We were interested to find out that there are GPS units specifically geared towards boating use, with charts of the rivers in place of the roads we are used to seeing on our automobile GPS unit. I think that is really a great development, especially since my in-laws are getting older and more likely to get lost while they are out riding in their boat! The Internet company bigtsports.com sells a variety of boating navigation tools, as well as a variety of outdoor electronics. I went to their website and was surprised to see how many different types of electronics there are that are directed towards the boater.
Well, winter is over, spring is here, time to definitely go for a ride on my Harley! It’s a beautiful thing, it ought to be! Cost a small fortune, but worth every penny! It fired right up, I drove it outside and let it warm up. I looked it all over, threw on my helmet and off I went! Boy did it feel good! I can’t describe the feeling as I shifted through the gears, going down the road! I pulled up to a stop sign, slid it back into first gear, and off I went again! This was one of those days were I didn’t mind stopping at a stop sign every couple of miles because I love to shift through the gears! I love to hear the sound of my exhaust! I love the fresh air on my face, heck I love it all! I drove about fifteen miles, making a loop back to my house, I figured that was good enough for today because I know there will be many more rides!
When my wife bakes her world famous (alright, family famous!) cakes, she uses only the finest Icumsa 45 grade sugar that she can buy. That grade of sugar is the highest grade refined sugar made. She was telling me the other day that sugar is made not just from sugar cane, but also from sugar beets! I didn’t believe her, so I went on the Internet and did some research on it. Well, she is right, sugar IS made from both cane AND beets! The finest sugar is made in Brazil, and I was reading about the process – I thought it was fascinating!
Unbelievably, it’s time to change all the outdoor light bulbs from white to yellow. I do this every year; the yellow lights keep the bugs away whereas the white lights attract all the bugs. It seems like we got a dozen, but we really only five or six. It surely is an ingenious thing that they thought of, the mosquitoes and the moths and all kinds of flying insects seem to be highly attracted to the white light. The yellow lights really deter them, so today I went out and changed all the bulbs. So tonight, or whatever other night I’m out, when I come home there will be very few bugs flying around ready to come in the house. It doesn’t take very long, and it makes my wife happy.
