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Feb
28

Time To Hit The Trail

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Well, it’s that time of year again…Time to hitch up the dogs and hit the trail to begin that long trek back up to the still frozen North.  Global warm­ing my arse.  Tomor­row wraps up what has been the cold­est Win­ter sea­son we have ever expe­ri­enced in the last 29 years.

I’d like to stay longer, but frankly I’m bored and have a bunch of things to do back home before Mary Lee and I repack and head off for a new adven­ture in the “Big Easy” 2 days after Easter.

I recently got a call from NE Chrome Plat­ing down in Hart­ford and my parts are ready, while on hia­tus I sent out the tail light bezels, tail­fin trim, hood and trunk vees and crests along with the Cadil­lac let­ters from the fins and all are ready to be picked up.

Once back, my focus will be on remov­ing the inte­rior door trim and gen­er­ally prep­ping the car for paint.  In fact, if any­one has any advise on how to remove those door pan­els, I’m all ears and would appre­ci­ate the input.  I promised the body shop that when they finally got the car it would be com­pletely stripped of all trim and we are about half way there at this point.  Our 1500 mile jour­ney begins tomor­row, we should be in on Wednesday.

Until then…

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Feb
14

Happy Valentine’s Day

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Happy Valentine’s Day!!  We are still here in South Florida expe­ri­enc­ing what will go down in his­tory as prob­a­bly the cold­est Win­ter sea­son in 100 years.…  Yes­ter­day we had temps of 56 degrees with winds blow­ing 20 – 30 mph.  I know, before you all jump on me, it still beats 4 feet of snow and temps in the 20’s.  Two weeks and we will begin the trek back up to Mass­a­chu­setts, where we will have a Month to get things orga­nized before fly­ing out to New Orleans for a few days of par­ty­ing and then board­ing the NCL Spirit for a 12 day cruise through the Car­ribean before end­ing back up in Boston.  Stay Warm.…talk soon.

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Jan
21

Art Deco Weekend

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Went down to South Beach in Miami with a friend Sun­day, they were hav­ing their annual Art Deco Week­end fes­ti­val.  Ocean Drive was closed between 5th and 15th Streets where they had many booths, ven­dors and the cars dis­played.  The weather was a lit­tle iffy with over­cast skies and a high prob­a­bil­ity of rain.  I think the weather tamped down atten­dance some and there really were not many cars being displayed.

I did see a very nice LaSalle, along with a few early six­ties Cadil­lacs and one nice exam­ple of an ear­lier model Caddy, but was some­what dis­ap­pointed to not see any of my favorites, the 58 & 59 Cad­dys.  As it turned out we were for­tu­nate that we decided to go down early, we arrived as they were open­ing and when leav­ing after lunch it started to shower as we headed for the car.  What looked like a shower turned into a del­uge and it poured the whole time we drove back up to Boca.

It has been hec­tic since I arrived here, what with get­ting plumb­ing repairs done, tile floors fixed, clean­ing and open­ing things up, etc.  Last year saw us hurry out of here on very short notice, leav­ing projects unfin­ished which is caus­ing much more work as we open up this sea­son.  The weather has improved greatly and is back to what we come to South Florida to enjoy.  Only regret is hav­ing to leave my car behind, but I will be back to it in March…

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Dec
31

Happy New Year

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Mary Lee and I wish you all a very Happy, Healthy and Pros­per­ous New Year.… As we look back at 2009, we’re glad to see it end, it has been a very stress­ful, strange and sad time for us.  Busi­ness has been less than robust, but like many, we count our bless­ings that we are still here and work­ing.  The chal­lenges we faced were over­whelm­ing at times, but we shrugged them off and con­tin­ued to try to move for­ward every day.  Strange is the only way to explain the sit­u­a­tions we encoun­tered and had to endure through­out the year.  It is times like these that bring out the absolute best and worst in peo­ple, we were con­fronted with sit­u­a­tions from peo­ple that had no regard for any­one but them­selves and blind­sided by their sheer lack of com­pas­sion.  Then aided and com­forted by oth­ers whom we would never have imag­ined would pitch in and help.  Sad­ness was the main theme through­out the year as we both lost very close fam­ily mem­bers, which by itself is very dif­fi­cult, but also found our­selves in the posi­tions of being pri­mary care givers and hav­ing to watch them slip away on a daily basis, while still try­ing to main­tain our own lives in the lit­tle time that was left.  Thank God it is over.  We look for­ward to 2010 with renewed vigor and know that it only gets bet­ter from here.

The bright spot for me this year was the project car that inspired this site.  I am thank­ful that I had it to occupy some of my time and enable me to for­get things going on around me as I immersed myself in it.  We have made amaz­ing progress in a short period of time and very much look for­ward to cruis­ing in her this com­ing Sum­mer sea­son.  With only 10 days left before we move South for an extended break from every­thing here, lit­tle else will be accom­plished until we return some­time in March, but rest assured we will ramp it up dra­mat­i­cally when back.

For us, 2010 will see us trav­el­ing more than we nor­mally would as we try to make up for this past year.  We both agree that we deserve it and will use our time to max­i­mum advantage.

So much for the depress­ing stuff.…  These two denizens of the deep are about to take the plunge and will be the cen­ter­piece of our New Year’s cel­e­bra­tion start­ing tonight and con­tin­u­ing through out the weekend.

See ya next year!!!

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Dec
25

MERRY CHRISTMAS

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I hope every­one has a very Merry, Healthy and Happy Christ­mas Holiday

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Dec
23

Happy Birthday Mom

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We know you are smil­ing at us from above.…
The Hol­i­days will never ever be the same with­out you.….

Naida Lachowetz   Decem­ber 23, 1927  -  May 4, 2009

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Nov
26

Happy Thanksgiving.…

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Mary Lee and I wish all a very happy and  safe Thanks­giv­ing Holiday.…..

screenshot062We thought about cook­ing the bird on the exhaust man­i­fold while cruis­ing, but unfor­tu­nately we are not yet run­ning (this week­end is the tar­get), so we decided to send the bird to the beach instead.….

As you cel­e­brate with fam­ily and friends, take a moment to thank all and pray for those who can­not be with their fam­i­lies today because they are pro­tect­ing our right to do so.

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Nov
11

Computer Problems.….

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Sorry for the delay in updating.…We are strug­gling with a com­puter virus that lim­its our abil­ity to be on-line.  We have much to say, but unable to get it in right now…

See ya soon!

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Oct
31

Happy Halloween

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Oct
09

Cruising — Again…

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Wish you all a happy and safe Colum­bus Day Week­end… Mary Lee and I arrived in Boston last night and are tak­ing a shut­tle over to Black Fal­con Pier at Noon, where we will board the NCL Spirit, look up a Cana­dian friend who will be join­ing us  and set sail at 5:00PM.  We will be mak­ing ports in both the US and Canada, includ­ing Bar Har­bor, Prince Edward Island, Nova Sco­tia, New Brunswick, La Baie, Sept-Isles, Que­bec City, Port­land, and also cruis­ing the Sague­nay Fjord and Saint Lawrence Sea­way before return­ing to Boston on Octo­ber 23rd.  The foliage should be spec­tac­u­lar, at or near peak, and we may even see some early snow while in the north­ern reaches

We’ll be back to work­ing on the “Gray Lady” after we return, hope to keep things mov­ing and look for­ward to see­ing you then.…

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