The Palomino Palace

With the start of bicycle racing season upon us, it is time to dust off the Palomino Palace and get it ready for travel.  The Palomino Palace is our home away from home during racing season.  It is a 1986 Palomino Hard Side Pop-Up.  It sleeps five pretty comfortably ... it just doesn't hold the junk of five very comfortably.  We decided a couple of years ago that it would be cheaper to buy and use a camper when we go to races instead of staying in hotels.  And so far it has worked out.

On our way home from Colorado last summer the roof vent on the Palace finally had enough of the wind and broke.  So for the rest of that trip (and one more) we used good ol' southern engineering to hold the vent down ... duct tape.  Well I finally took the Palace up to Floyd's RV and had a new roof vent installed.  I'd like to do a complete makeover on the Palace, but that will have to come later (does MTV have a show for that ... like Pimp My Pop-Up?)  We needed an awning last summer so I got a tarp from Wal-Mart, a length of cable from Ace Hardware, and a couple of old tent poles from my brother-in-law and voila! we have an awning ... can you say "redneck"?

This brings me to this week's "three things" list ... name three things you know you really need to work on but you keep "putting duct tape on it" instead.

Here's mine:
1. The Palomino Palace ... a real awning, new paint, new upholstery, new tires, a refrigerator, etc
2. My garage ... I just keep "stacking" things off to one side thinking that will be okay until I can put it where it really goes.
3. My desk ... I just keep "stacking" things off to one side thinking that will be okay until I can put it where it really goes. (is there an echo in here?)

Be sure to let me know your "three things".

Now to something I actually do work on ...

Yep, I got six workouts in last week, so I will accept the "awesome" description from Dailymile.com this time.  Over 2800 calories burned ... not bad, but I'm ready for bike riding weather so I can get outside and burn that in one ride.



"But what about the weight?" you ask ...

A pound and a half!  Now that's more like it.  I'm almost back down to where I started the first of the year ... after two days of a stomach virus.  Progress is nice.  I know I can't expect this much every week, but I'll take it this week.


Now put away your duct tape and go do something!

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