Saturday at 4:05pm we lost our little Abbey girl.

Unfortunately she didn't get any better from Friday night and took a turn for the worse on Saturday. We didn't want to see her suffer. Thanks for everyone's happy thoughts and support.

Floyd Landis' heroic journey in this year's Tour De Franc reminds me of a story from 19 years ago...

In high school I wanted to make this select soccer team called Bellotti Sports United. They were sponsored by an Italian soccer shoe and wore La Coq Sportif uniforms and played the best soccer I had ever seen. They had just won the state title the previous year.

I joined the cross country team to get in better shape and the crazy coach made us run up a MOUNTAIN!!!!

It hurt and the only thing I said to my self running 8 miles up that F*&$@eR was...

"I'm going to make team Bellotti I'm going to make team Bellotti I'm going to make team Bellotti I'm going to make team Bellotti I'm going to make team Bellotti I'm going to make team Bellotti I'm going to make team Bellotti I'm going to make team Bellotti"

I made it up that damned mountain and later that year I made the team. I believe its a balance between the mind convincing the body to do something. Or as Morrissey says "Does the mind rule the body or the body rule the mind, I don't know"???:)


Here is a replica of what the Italian World Cup Champs wore this year, ours were all blue but very similiar. Very expensive but last forever, I still wear some of the shirts today.

Abbey Road

Our 12 year old pekingnese, Abbey Road, is at the emergency care center tonight. Her kidneys failured this morning and Xrays found stones. I'm more tore up about this than anything and thought I'd ask you all for some good thoughts thrown her way.

Here's a great pic of her and her brother and sister a few years ago.



Abster Babster is the calico one in the back yawning.

She's the best dog ever and a fighter. We hope to get some good news here in awhile from an ultrasound.

Fingers Crossed...Flo

Fire @ Lee's Ford Marina this morning

I took some video -



At 1:30am we heard and felt a big boom. I thought it was someone jumping on top of our boat's Fly Bridge, that�s how close it sounded, my bil thought it was another renter trying to park their HB close by. We saw smoke and ran outside. That is when I took the video. You'll see a jet-ski in total flames moving towards the dock. 2 HB owners moved their boats after that, one, right in front of the Gas Dock and the other in front of the Over Night slips. At about 1:45am the first responders came with a vengeance and cut the first burning boat loose and dragged it away from the dock with a small fishing boat. At 2:30 am it looked like they had a handle on the situation so we went to sleep. This morning they said 5 boats were destroyed and many more were damaged

So many people helped out and the entire situation was handled as best as possible. I spoke to the one owner who moved to the Over Night and he said that as soon as he heard the 'explosion' as he called it; he knew a propane tank had gone off.

This morning there was a lot of debris and soot floating around A dock and two of the hulls of the boats that were destroyed were dragged to the Launch Ramp where they were still smoldering after 4 hours when I left to go to work at about 7:40am...Flo