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(Special thanks to my friend Robin for the headline.) I had a little problem on Wednesday evening when I was doing a bit of maintenance on Prudence... These days I'm a little more stressed than normal, and I like to refer to my forgetfulness as having 55 year old...

compagnon  (plural compagnons, feminine compagne) from Old French compaignon, lifelong partner, significant other Anyone that knows David and me knows that we enjoy spending time in Europe. There are many reasons for this I don't need to go into here, but if you know...

A few weeks back, when we were holed up at our friend Elisa's place (between when the boat would be ready and when we had to leave the condo for the last time), David and I were interviewed for a Latitude 38 podcast. Neither of us knew what to expect, but what it...

I haven’t written a blog post since December 2021, which is crazy because a lot has happened since then. I’ve been thinking about another post for the last few days, but I’m struggling with where to start. But first, we are now living on the boat full-time at Richmond...

In honor of our one month anniversary of "living" on our new boat, I thought I'd catch the old blog up with everything that's happened. Hard to believe it's only been a month, because it feels like it's been so much longer. First off, yes, it's been a challenge as...

It's been many weeks of chaos, living on the edge, packing, sorting, throwing away, pawning stuff off on neighbors, and things are finally feeling a bit more "normal" again. OK, it hasn't been living on the edge, and our new lives are far from normal, but since last...

We're leavin' togetherBut still it's farewellAnd maybe we'll come backTo Earth, who can tell?I guess there is no one to blameWe're leaving ground (leaving ground)Will things ever be the same again? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw I played piano at a...

Yesterday, David graduated from the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding Marine Systems program. The pandemic-year class that David was in was full of really interesting people. Some veterans, some that were looking to start a different career, some who were...

We went through an interesting twist this weekend when we started to consider spending another season here in Port Townsend. It was an 18 hour discussion, which resulted in us staying the course that we'd already discussed. Ultimately I don't know if it was fear of...

Yesterday we started taking inventory of every single thing in our house, and each item was placed into a bucket: Boat/Bay, Storage, Sell, or Donate. There isn't a lot of stuff going to the Boat/Bay, and about 25% of the stuff we have is going to Storage. This means a...