RE: Esther Day at the Beach

[Guest guest]

> ~ Esther ~,

It is so cool you got to go to the beach. How does a beach wheelchair

work? Is it electric?

My husband and I just bought a little sail boat! I had to give up

bicycling and so we wanted something else to do together. First he had me work

the Jib sail in the front of the boat. That spot in the boat makes you move

around alot and I looked like a Dalmatian afterwards with all my bruises. So we

moved me to the Tiller to steer the boat. Well, I have attention deficit

disorder and you can imagine what happens when I am steering. I go along course

and someone goes by and I look at them and forget to steer and whoops we lose

our wind. My poor husband! He is so patient with me. Saturday we will go

again to a bigger lake for our first deep water adventure. We have been

practicing in our neighborhood lake which is only 5 feet deep. Our first time

out we both went Man(Woman) Overboard and we could stand up in the water. Ha

what fun this is.

Sorry to hear about your work accident. Hope your chair is fixed soon.

Take care.

Pat

[Guest guest]

Hi Pat,

A Beach Wheelchair is kinda hard to explain. Basically it is a very

large-type, hard plastic, very large wheels that glide over the beach

sand instead of sinking into it like my regular one does.......not electric

LOL......looks like a big Fisher Price Toy. Here in N.J. I know that some

of the State Parks have them also. Down the shore they are available

by calling and reserving them........no actual charge for using them

but they do ask for a donation. I have a picture of me in the chair on

the beach with my nephew

and neice so I will send it to the file site if we can figure out how to do

that LOL.

Hope you enjoyed your weekend sailing and that you two did not

go overboard hehehee

~ Esther ~

----- Original Message -----

From: England, J <pje@...>

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Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 10:40 AM

Subject: [ ] RE: Esther Day at the Beach

>

>

> > ~ Esther ~,

> It is so cool you got to go to the beach. How does a beach wheelchair

> work? Is it electric?

>

> My husband and I just bought a little sail boat! I had to give up

> bicycling and so we wanted something else to do together. First he had me

work

> the Jib sail in the front of the boat. That spot in the boat makes you

move

> around alot and I looked like a Dalmatian afterwards with all my bruises.

So we

> moved me to the Tiller to steer the boat. Well, I have attention deficit

> disorder and you can imagine what happens when I am steering. I go along

course

> and someone goes by and I look at them and forget to steer and whoops we

lose

> our wind. My poor husband! He is so patient with me. Saturday we will

go

> again to a bigger lake for our first deep water adventure. We have been

> practicing in our neighborhood lake which is only 5 feet deep. Our first

time

> out we both went Man(Woman) Overboard and we could stand up in the water.

Ha

> what fun this is.

>

> Sorry to hear about your work accident. Hope your chair is fixed soon.

> Take care.

> Pat

>

>

>

>

> Our websites: http://rheumatoid.arthritis.freehosting.net/

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[Guest guest]

Pat,

A sail boat sounds like fun! I hope you and your husband enjoy it.

I had to give up bicycling many years ago, but I have found a recumbent

tandem bike that I can ride with my husband. It is very expensive, almost

3 grand (gag!), so it will take awhile of saving my pennies.

They even have recumbent tykes!

If you want to see what they look like:

http://www.rans.com/bikes.htm

It sounds like you are having lots of fun with the sailboat! I hope you

stayed aboard Saturday!

a

----- Original Message -----

From: England, J <pje@...>

< egroups>

Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 10:40 AM

Subject: [ ] RE: Esther Day at the Beach

>

>

> > ~ Esther ~,

> It is so cool you got to go to the beach. How does a beach wheelchair

> work? Is it electric?

>

> My husband and I just bought a little sail boat! I had to give up

> bicycling and so we wanted something else to do together. First he had me

work

> the Jib sail in the front of the boat. That spot in the boat makes you

move

> around alot and I looked like a Dalmatian afterwards with all my bruises.

So we

> moved me to the Tiller to steer the boat. Well, I have attention deficit

> disorder and you can imagine what happens when I am steering. I go along

course

> and someone goes by and I look at them and forget to steer and whoops we

lose

> our wind. My poor husband! He is so patient with me. Saturday we will

go

> again to a bigger lake for our first deep water adventure. We have been

> practicing in our neighborhood lake which is only 5 feet deep. Our first

time

> out we both went Man(Woman) Overboard and we could stand up in the water.

Ha

> what fun this is.

>

> Sorry to hear about your work accident. Hope your chair is fixed soon.

> Take care.

> Pat

>

>

>

>

> Our websites: http://rheumatoid.arthritis.freehosting.net/

> http://www.rasupport.webprovider.com/

> Our chat room: www.delphi.com/RheumatoidArth1/start

>