Construction and Installation

This is a photo of the "flip-flop" lifeguard station at South Beach-very creative. The red flag is a small craft advisory warning-don't go boating today, high seas.

Today was construction day. Mel pulled all of his tools out from the RV "basement" so he could build the shelf for our satellite receiver. He was so happy building the contraption. Once he had all the holes drilled for the wiring and the hangars, then he stained the oak shelf to match the RV cabinets. When the stain dried, he installed the shelf. As I knew, he did a very fine job with the project. That was the morning's activity. All the while, we watched as NASA tried to launch a rocket from Cape Canaveral. (Yes, we are so close that we should have been there but we weren't aware of the launch until 20 minutes before. As it happened, we could have made it but then NASA did not have a good outcome.)

In the afternoon, Mel began wiring the satellite dish, the receiver, the VCR and the DVD players. He managed to get the VCR and the DVD players installed and working. Now I have to read how to program the VCR so I can tape some of my favorite programs. Why you ask? The point of having DirectTV with DVR is to tape our favorite shows.

However, as with NASA, we had failure to launch our satellite system-even with tech help. I am sure this is user failure but Mel believes that it may have to do with our satellite dish. The only way to know for sure is to buy another dish-not an expense that I am too happy about at this point.

Finally, at 4 p.m., we shut down our system for the day. Tomorrow is another day. We drove to the coast and drove south on A1A. We found a great restaurant, The Ocean Grill, right on the beach. As night fell, we watched the Atlantic breakers roll onto shore as we dined in a lovely romantic setting.