A little something and a lot of nothing....

Wow, more than a week has passed since we arrived. We've been busy catching up with errands and chores mostly. We did get a giggle as we drove into town one day. The neighbor's Beagle mix treed what looked to be either a Guinea Hen or wild Turkey in one of our trees. This was the best I could do with my cell phone.

Stu spent his time putting some miles on the trike before going in for a 10k service appointment. The rest of his time was spent getting the bike and trailer ready for his three+ week trip with his guy pals. They are taking two weeks to ride my Maryland out to Sturgis, do some major sightseeing and then back. They leave on Saturday and will meet up with Stu in Omaha on Monday.

He loaded up yesterday afternoon in great weather and headed for his first night in Mammoth Cave National Park.

He's had good weather thus far and I hope that will continue throughout the trip. He posted a photo of his camp site. He's taking this opportunity to test out all our camping gear that we plan to use on our Route 66 trip this fall.

So I'm a bachelorette for the next 3+ weeks. I've got some paperwork to catch up with, plus trying to post something in all my blogs before the weekend. Then it's time to start serious work on "Barely a Spark", book two in my Klondike Mystery Series. I'm trying to write some more flash fiction, too. Today I did a new Five Sentence Fiction.

I'm also starting my 15 Day Body Reset Diet - for anyone interested you can follow along HERE. Today is day one!

We've landed!

We left earlier than normal on Monday - before noon. LOL! Stu stopped at a local state park on the way out and dumped and we rolled out of Delaware headed for home. Gorgeous weather - sunny. Traffic -not bad at all. Road hazards - of course!

We were on I-81 when Stu tried to avoia a piece of tire tread on the road. It went under the RV and hit the PVC pipe where we store our sewer hose. So me, driving in Scooby our pick-up truck behind the RV, managed to avoid the tire tread that came flying out at me but then had to dodge our sewer hose. Shouted at Stu on the CB to pull over. Fortunately it was easy to undo the last clamp holding the now dangling PVC pipe and toss the pipe in the truck bed. Phew! A quick stop at Camping World and we were back on the road.

We got in late, but a day early, unloaded the motorcycles - put them in the shed, unloaded the elliptical that we have been carrying in the back of Scooby - put it in the garage area of the RV. Let Sadie romp with her BFF, Keta. Got the DirecTV set up and life is good! Well, almost. The DSL wasn't working (turned out to be an operator error) but we survived the night. ;-)

Stu is busy getting the motorcycle and trailer ready for his three week guy ride out to South Dakota. He'll be using this as a shake-down run for the gear we plan to use on our Route 66 ride this fall.

Me? I'm catching up on general chores - shopping, laundry, bathing Sadie, paying bills. Yeah, the usual day to day stuff that just never seems to go away.

Oh, if you're interested, check out page 4 of the Delmarva Fast Lane Biker June issue.

And the last note, still need two more reviews for Not a Whisper.  ;-)

Kindle Fire $20 off for Father's Day

Today's Amazon pages show a discount of $20 off any Kindle Fire HD tablet through June 8, 2013 when using a special promotional code.

The Promo Code DADSFIRE, used at checkout, will get you the $20 off any of these HD models.

Although it mentions that this discount with code is good through June 8, they add "Offer good while supplies last," which is wording commonly seen in any of these time-limited offers.

That means:

• The 16 GB Kindle Fire HD 7-inch tablet would start at $179 for this time period, when using the promo code.
• The 32 GB Kindle Fire HD 7-inch tablet would start at $209 (the 32 GB one is my recommendation, due to the large size of multimedia files.
• The models with 'Special Offers' shown on the opening lock screen are always priced $15 lower than the ones without the special offers.