This is a picture of Llwyd's and my wife
at the presention, see below. Llwyd's
wife, Diana, is a great person, and a real
sailing commpanion for Llwyd.
RHD 

On Wed., Feb 21, my friend of 50 years
was the speaker at the PalmBeach Sailing
Club. Llwyd Ecclestone gave a presentation
which included some great sailing pictures
of some of his racing and cruising sailboats.
He followed this with a question and answer
session that was well received. A great evening
at our club.
RHD 

Marge and Herman, see below.
RHD 

Marge and I came to Riviera Beach in 1969
One of the first people we met, at a pta meeting,
was Herman McCrae. Herman was and is
very much involved in Riviera politics. When I
Served on the City council, I got to know Herman
very well, and we became friends. I don't see
him much any more, but I still buy Ribs from his
Barbeque shop, Best Ive ever eaten.
Today Marge and I had lunch with Herman
at the Tiki bar in the Riviera Beach Marina.
It was great to see Herman again, and we're
going to have Ribs tonnight!
RHD 

Sunsets can be spectacular, and hard to
photograph, especailly by me!
This one is from our porch on Valentine's
Day, eve. Same day as the one below
RHD 

Valentine's day at OPYC, 2007.
everyone's in red!
Marge and Bob
 

Marge and I were lucky enough to do
about 20 cruises where I acted as a
duplicate bridge director, and bridge
lecturer. After I quit lecturing, we found we
were hooked, and have done about 15
more on our own nickel! This vase is
a pleasant reminder of one of our cruises.
The vase had fresh flowers every day,
and I try to keep fresh flowers now, it
requires new ones about once a week.
RHD 

Marge and I at the Commodore's Ball,
Old Port Yacht Club, Jan. 27, 2007. I was Commodore, 1973!! 

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Marge and I at the Manager's Bloody Mary
party, Old PortYacht Club, New year's day,
2007 

Here's one of the pictures my daughter took of
Marge and me going in to the club for the ceremony
described below. To clarify, I was the 3rd commodore
the club had, in 1973. I an not today's 3rd commodore!
RHD

This is the picture taken yesterday,11-5-06,
of the change of watch ceremony at Old Port
Yacht Club. This is the club Marge and I spend
a lot of time at. These are the incoming officers.
I was the 3rd Commodore 

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Marge and I at the 2006 Halloween
party at Old Port Yacht Club.
Marge wore the same costume about 15 years ago. Picture by Barbara Oetzman.

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Marge and I have lived on or near the water for all of our 58 years of marriage. But we have been in our condo
for 14 years. This is the view in the early morning hours looking East. The condos you see are on Singer Island, where we lived for 23 years. It's a beautiful, and satisfying view to get up to in the morning!

morning view from our condo

 

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About 3 months ago, Marge and I decided we no longer needed
two cars. We gave our daughter Marge's Chrysler town car.
The major change in our lives, I am now going to church regularly so I can drive instead of Marge going alone as she has for several years. I won't say I am suddenly converted back to religion, but I did decide to be active. I'm now an usher!
Anyway, today, Oct. 8, 2006, was "the blessings of the animals". Dogs and cats all over the place, really quite a bit of fun. The pictures are from this event.
Incidentally, the town car replaced my Daughter's small truck with about 180,000 milea on it!

 

 

 

Bless the animals Sunday at St. Mark's
church, Palm Beach Gardens, Fl. 

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My first political comment. I'm 83, so buying a Prius cannot possibly pay for itself in my lifetime. However, I feel strongly that we as a country MUST wean ourselves from the oil dependency to the Arabic world. I'm from Detroit where I lived for 46 years. I have friends who criticise me for buying a "Jap car", and sending my money to the Japs who we fought in WW II. My reasons : First, our own car companies, Ford, Gm.,
and Chrysler were derelict in not seeing that the end of the SUV era was here, dictated by high gas prices. The Japs saw it coming 5-10 years ago. The two best hybrids on the road today, are the Toyota Prius, and the Honda Accord.

The American companies are waking up only because they're
bleeding money trying to sell huge SUVS, and Hummers! Sure they are now going to bring out Hybrids, but I will bet that they are too big, and after the first rush will not begin to eat into Toyota and Honda, who will also by then have larger models.

THe Hybrid is not the final answer, I believe that fuel cells will be the wave of the future, and will last for decades.

As to sending money to Japan, Toyota has created more jobs in America, than any other manufacturer.

Wake up Detroit, and then wake up our government!
RHD

Marge and Julie Carvin, one of her long time
bridge friends. They both look pretty damned
good for Marge, 81, and Julie, 82 

A picture of Marge and me at our 58th
anniversray, Marge is 81, and I'm 82 

I finally got around to having this map, which I brought
back from my tour of duty in WW II, scanned and
put on a CD. It is a map we used in flying to targets,
to avoid flak concentrations. The circles in orange
are flak concentrations.
RHD 

The area we have lived in for the past 13 years, is Old Port Cove. It is quite large, with 8 buildings, a group of town houses, and a large, well maintained Marina, and a yacht club. The grounds are beautifully maintained. After one of the hurricanes, I don't remember names well,
we lost over a hundred trees. The ones our sub association is responsible for, have been supervised by Marge and my friend, Lee Fisher. Lee was our first lady commodore, and is a real dynamo. Anyway, she supervised the replanting of most of our trees. The picture above is of one of the 4 palms she had planted in front of our 2 buildings, Cove Towers East and West. They may not be unique, but they are the only ones I have ever seen like them. I love 'em! Thanks Lee.
RHD

Palm Tree 

This 23 foot alligator was caught and
killed while trying to eat a full grown
male deer! They grow 'em big in Texas

My Daughter has been shaming me by the beautiful pictures
she's been posting on her blog. She takes most from her Kayak.
At 82, I can not Kayak, so I took one of these pictures
from our balcony, where we sit each night for our cocktails.
The other two are from my parking place in the condo parking
lot, looking at the lawn of our neighbor condo. So there!
RHD

The Ibis

  

Some feathered friends

  

view from our Condo