August 31 Playing with Hurricane Gustov

This has been a crunch week. Thursday I drove to Florence…765 miles…  pulling 20 foot trailer full of machinery for the shop…compressors, drill press, radial saw, etc. It’s a long drive but can be done in a day. Made it in about 13 hours. Unoaded everything with the caterpillar on Friday and then decided that I needed [...]

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Back in Florenece August 16

It’s been nearly 5 months since I posted on the blog and well over due.  Carol and I  have been bouncing back and forth between Houston and Florence, Alabama. After we closed on the land we started construction on the shop/barn and it is nearly finished. It’s bigger than the shop in Houston. It lacks a [...]

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We just got back to Houston from Florence. Arrived here Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 in rush hour traffic and it reinforced one of the main reasons we wanted to leave. Too many people going too many places too fast and all talking on their cell phones.  We were in Florence for about two weeks and [...]

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Back in Florence April 14

Since my last post we have closed on the 48 acres of land  in Florence Alabama and are beginning the arduous task of pulling up roots in Texas and moving to Alabama. We are trying to sell off some of our holding in Texas and get rid of things that we don’t really want to move. [...]

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Voyages of Annie, Florence, Alabama, February 26, 2008

One of our friends emailed me and wondered if we had sunk, or been abducted by pirates or whatever and I realized there has been a two month hiatus in “The Voyages of Annie”.
Carol and I are back on Annie in Florence Alabama . I went home for Christmas and left Annie in care of [...]

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Voyages of Annie, The Great American Whistle Hunt, December 6

Annie is currently in Florence Alabama. Came through the locks at Wheeler Dam and Wilson Dam yesterday morning. These are the locks that have the 85 foot drop…. pretty wild. Going down in a lock is somewhat like putting a ping-pong ball in the commode and then flushing it….and Annie and I are the [...]

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Voyages of Annie, The Great American Whistle Hunt, December 2

I have arrived at the rather astonishing conclusion that when you are river cruising there are only two ways to go…upstream and downstream…..so why do I need all of these complicated nautical charts???
We have made Guntersville, Alabama a center of our river travels as there is a nice marina here and there is [...]

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Voyages of Annie, The Great American Whistle Hunt, November 16

Greetings from the Tennessee River in Chattanooga
Arrived in Chattanooga yesterday and once again we have internet connection. Thought yesterday that winter had finally come. It was cold and got to below freezing last night but today is a beautiful, crisp and clear Fall day. We took two days to get to [...]

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Voyages of Annie – The Great American Whistle Hunt, November 10

Greeting from Second Creek Tennessee River.
I have had no cellular access for the last five days but am close to civilization again. I believe that I am not too far from Athens, Alabama and have been able to make cell phone calls today.
I lost my crew three days ago in Columbus Mississippi on the Tenn-Tom [...]

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Voyages of Annie…The Great American Whistle Hunt, October 30

Good morning from Dog River, Alabama
Not really sure if Dog River is a town or just a River. Got in here yesterday after taking another beating on Mississippi Sound and another flogging coming up Mobile Bay. Not sure why they call this pleasure boating??? My last installment was from Biloxi. Since then I have had [...]

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