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With this boat and these two kids I’m coming to the realization that sometimes it is just easier to pay somebody to show up, perform their specialty, and leave. As opposed to me diving into the project without a clue, taking the bus to the store, coming back, realizing I … Read More

This morning some Bum friends came out to visit us while on vacation. With them was a disk I ordered a few days ago to fix my computer’s hard drive. We originally met this couple through the website and when they were down here on holiday a couple years back … Read More

Today we were at the resort here with Ouest and a friend of hers. The two of them had a bucket of sidewalk chalk and proceeded to draw little faces, flowers, and hearts on the sidewalk. Soon after, I saw a security guard eyeballing us with his walkie-talkie out. And … Read More

Ouest has changed so much in just the past week or two that Ali and I can hardly believe it. Ali looked at her tonight and said, “It’s sad.” What’s sad? “She’s growing up.” First off there is the little girl underwear. Underwear! We went all day long today without … Read More

Took off the davits and the lifeline pulpit at the back of the cockpit today. The boat looks so nice and tidy like that. Too bad we can’t leave it alone. Also went to the pool and went for an evening walk. That’s our entire day.

We are currently stuck in purgatory. Hell is trying to get Lowe to sleep. The poor kid just won’t do it. He’ll fight sleeping all day long, maybe getting half an hour despite hours of attempts. Nighttime is slightly better, but Ali’s still not getting a lot of sleep on … Read More

Lowe has had this little dry cough for a month now. It only happens when he is crying, so we just let it go. But it had finally been long enough so today we took him in for a checkup and lo and behold, he’s got nothing wrong with him. … Read More

Tonight my computer blew up again. I don’t know what the heck happened really, but all of a sudden it shut down and wouldn’t boot back up again. I did all the techy stuff and found some sort of journaling error that according to many, many google searches has only … Read More

Finished the chain painting project today. Oh, who am I kidding, I finished painting, but three hundred feet of chain is still laid out on the deck. Maybe day four will see that one day project completed. Maybe. Crawled down in the engine room today and got to work. Installed … Read More

We rented a car and took off this morning to try and get a few things done around here. AutoZone, Walmart, a different AutoZone, the marine store (closed), Home Depot, AutoZone a third time, and finally a late night Walmart diaper stock-up. Phew. The good news is that AutoZone tested … Read More

Lowe is growing up fast these days. It seemed to take forever for Ouest to reach this age where with Lowe it feels like he was born yesterday and today he is sitting up in chairs and grabbing anything that is in sight even if in sight is five feet … Read More

The kids’ nap schedules aren’t jiving right now and I can’t tell you what a crimp that is putting in the boat project list. At least that’s the excuse I’m going to use today for the lack of progress around here. I did plug away on the bilge cleaning again. … Read More