Pictures of the work we have done...inside...

New floor in galley

This is just some the work we have done in the boat!

new shelfs in library

new custom carpet

new carpet and led lighting

new chairs

more of the custom carpet 

new hatch and new lighting

new curtains and lamb on bed…Lol

check out my poof i made under the chair!

Meditation anyone?

I decided to try to learn to meditate.....
I thought it will help me become one with the universe, a wiser, calmer and generally a better person!
So I sat on the back of the boat one evening and gazed out over the calm waters of the bayou.
A few seagulls flew by, carried by the wind, then a pelican swooped down and settled on the water. This is just what I need....I thought!
After just a few minutes, things, words and images started to float up into my mind..
I thought of the universe as a vast, impersonal, life creating thing, that is ever changing and moving.
This touched me deeply and it seemed that time stopped, suddenly a wave a peace came over me or from within me.....still not sure.
Then another thought popped up,
"I am so alive in this impersonal universe....so glad, or am I?"
Then another thought...
"Life on earth is sustained by things feeding on one another...Ewww....Whats up with that.....?"
Then another thought flew in.
"Shit happens."
Realizing I had strayed from my mediation and my thoughts should be good, soothing and calming, I took a deep cleansing breath and looked back out on to the bayou.
New thought!
"Pew.....it stinks over here near the paper mill, and that thing is so noisy!"
Then another thought....
"I feel the need to urinate"
Bummer....

 Here's some pictures to help you meditate!

These were taken off the back of the boat...

Finally🌞Back on board

Finally after a year and a half, living with friends and house sitting, we are almost ready to head back out on Adagio, we have worked so hard on her, she is almost a new boat!
We replace almost one side  of her with new metal, engine rebuilt, generator repaired,  new pro furl on stay sail, house repainted, sails redone and repaired, house enclosure canvas redone and cleaned, deck repainted, hatches repaired, it has been a whirl wind of boat, boat, boat.
I have new carpet in the hall, in the state room, and a new floor in the galley.
We are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel!
We are leaving after hurricanes season and we are off to see more of the world! I for one am so ready!

Hacked!

My blog was hacked and someone tried to post some very strange posts, thank goodness they only got to the draft stage, and I was alerted by Google that something was going on and I was able to delete them.

My blog is a mess right now, so bear with me while I try to clean it up!

Wandering aimless

We have had the boat in the water for about three months now, but due to some things that we can not control, we still are not back on board. Hopefully that will change, but for the time being we are house sitting for for some friends. 

The house we are staying in is super cool and very big, but, compared to the sail boat, it feels strange. 

I do miss Adagio! But I will stay the course and make the best of my time here in this new house. It does have a pool, so that makes things a little better! Lol....

I have been doing some gardening, growing tomatoes and herbs, so far so good, I have not killed anything yet..fingers crossed. 

I confess to taking life in the same way as I did on on the sailing trips we have made, wandering aimlessly. 

Wandering aimlessly could in some ways describe a lot of my life, It's not a bad thing but it's not for everyone.  It takes a special faith that good things will happen to you even if you don't seek them or perhaps in spite of what you do or where you go.  Think of all the things you have done in your life, hasn't it all worked out for the best? 

It doesn't mean that in your life can't have goals; it just means that you need to make life itself a goal and not just something we pass through on the way to some other perceived goal.  I have goals in my life and have met most of them, and I have have come to grips with those that I have not yet met, but I have thoroughly enjoyed taking the scenic route to getting there all of these years.  I have no way to know where I would be now if I had been more focused, more goal oriented.  Wherever it would be, I'll bet that the journey there would not have been nearly as interesting as the one I have taken.  No, that's not for me, I choose to live life where I am standing at the moment and not constantly wish that I were someplace else.  Wandering aimlessly I have stumbled over some beautiful places, met some of the most interesting people and have experienced life in a way that makes me grateful every day to have been on this wonderful adventure! This world we are living in right now is the real world! Make the most of it, sing, dance, and go wild! 

Water..water

The internet is now the most powerful educational tool in the solar system so 

I have been using it to resource new bottom paint for the boat, yes we are getting that close to getting Adagio back into the water, it seems every time we reach the cusp of getting it done, something else rears its ugly head and off we go on a new project. I was sand blasting the bottom and we found another pin hole. Now just let me stop here, no hole, no matter how small, is good on the bottom of a boat, but with a steel hull, a small pin hole always become a large hole. Sure enough, by the time we took off all the bad metal it was a window! That is now new metal and closed up! 

I painted the engine room also and Pierre started to put things back together. It will be so good to have her looking good again and back in the water. Everything is slowly coming back together and splash down is looking closer and closer!

Web and Log

It is the same for us every day anymore, here is my day, get up, work on the boat, get up, go to Lowe's, work on the boat, get up, go to West Marine, work on the boat...rain .....get up, go to Panama Marine, work on the boat....rain..you get the point!

Oh well, it could be worse! Right?

So I ain’t gonna lie. I haven’t had an ounce of desire to write in my blog, too tired most of the time, but the other night I got to thinking about the word blog, where did it come from and how did it come into play....so I had to find out....

The word blog is a conflation of two words: Web and log, in the monosyllabic and informal ways of the Internet, web log soon became known as the word blog. It contains, in its four letters, a concise and accurate self-description: it is a log of your thoughts, impressions, feelings and other such ideas that is posted publicly on the internet for others to read and comment on. Blogging is a relative new form of instant and global self-publishing, made possible by technology that has been available only for the past decade or so, it is the spontaneous expression of thoughts.

Now writing in a log is not a new thing, sailing ship have been recording logs for many hundreds of years and these logs owe their name to a small wooden board or log that was weighted with lead then attached to a line and thrown over the taffrail or stern of the ship. The weight of the lead and the board would keep it in the same place in the water, like a provisional anchor, while the ship sailed. This became known as a Taffrail log or ships log. These logs were an indispensable source for recording what actually happened on the ships and the line on the Taffrail logs was marked by equidistant knots so mariners could calculate the speed of their journey, as the ship’s voyage progressed the speed of the ship was measured by these knots, so it helped navigators surmise how far they had traveled and the ships log also provided accountability to a ship’s owners and traders.

Another form of "blogging" is writing in a diary and we can trace the diary's quirky and compelling history through centuries because lots of people wrote about themselves, their lives, family's, travels and their finding. But there is a difference between a blog and a diary, a diary is almost always a private matter and they usually are not meant to be read by others. Diaries are a unique individually literary form of blogging, its dedication to marking life as it happens and remembering life as it was, make them a terrestrial log.

Today blogging is a fun and informal way to write out loud! So have fun writing peeps and keep blogging on..

Here is a little fellow that was watching us from afar and just hanging out! I had to laugh at his antics.