News - Keystone Kourier - 2010
Prez Says
What a winter! Another 12+” of snow is predicted to fall tonight, 2/24. We have already set a record for snowfall since records have been kept per Accu-Weather. This is adding insult to injury! Even Florida has suffered a chilly winter.
On 2/9, we flew down to Miami to visit friends, snorkel and swim with the dolphins. We rented a red Mustang Convertible but were only able to put the top down 3 of the 6 days we were there. We never did get to snorkel, as the waves were too high for visibility and we needed to rent wetsuits for our Dolphin encounter at the Dolphin Research Center on Grassy Key. On a positive note, we missed the last big snowstorm (Tim was VERY happy about that!), and the dolphin swim was great.
Six of us stood, excited and cold (despite our wetsuits), waist deep on an underwater platform watching six dolphins as they swam, dove and jumped around directly in front of us, We were evenly divided on two sides, of a 6’ square white wooden dock. The trainer stood on the front side with a whistle and two coolers of fish at his feet to feed to the two dolphins would be “ours” for the next 25 minutes. The trainer directed the dolphins to each person in line to perform a specific task, the first command was “swim by and let yourself be touched”. After properly obeying each command, the dolphins would return to the trainer for the expected fish reward. In addition to a handshake and a kiss, each person was told to swim out into the lagoon and, as the two dolphins swam up on either side, to grab hold of their dorsal fins. Having accomplished the first two commands, we were rewarded with a “ride” around the same lagoon where Flipper was filmed. One of “our” dolphins was the granddaughter of Flipper! I was hoping for a bit more free time with them but as Tim reminded me (the risk manager), these are wild animals.
Next month will be warmer and it will be time to spring clean the trailer in preparation of the Maintenance Rally. This is a joint Rally with DelMarVa. We will be responsible for breakfast, so I am planning Challah bread French toast and turkey bacon. A coupon is in this newsletter for the rally. This is a rally Tim and I are very happy to attend again. For those of you who have never been, this is an opportunity to go over your trailer using a maintenance checklist. When you pull in the level of your tow vehicle and trailer will be checked in addition to your emergency brake cable. From there you will share knowledge and discussion with others as you “re-discover” parts of your trailer, both working and, unfortunately, non-working.
This where the WBCCI community put its collective knowledge together to help figure out what is wrong and what can be done to fix it.
Before the maintenance rally we have the Spring Lunch at the Stonersville Hotel, hosted by Jody & Sue. I am told the hamburgers are out of this world. I will take that on faith and hope their turkey and veggie burgers are equally as good.
Bud has moved the “Snowbirds” Spring Lunch to a Golden Corral closer to those who RSVPed they were coming.
See you down the road! Lyn