I forgot to say… ha ha ha… we are back in the “real” world and we are in need of a “group” like AA or something…
“Hi, I’m Captain Pam”
“Hi, captain Pam”
“I’ve been on the hard for 3 weeks now… my friends at home don’t understand when driving a car I tell them it is on the port… it is hard to tell everyone about my travels cuz it is hard to explain… when people ask how was the trip – all I can say is “amazing” – what is there to say… I have a hard time wasting water when I clean out a dish… there is so many food options I don’t know what to do… I can use as much toilet paper as I want and I feel guilty… my kids don’t recognize me cuz my skin color is so dark… I’m in way better shape than anyone I meet… in the morning I wake up with a bombardment of thoughts and to-do lists that used to be “normal” in my past life but boating I would wake up and have a quiet morning of God’s beautiful world then think of things to do for the day depending on the weather… I am obsessed with checking the wind direction and weather… I forget we have a refrigerator… it’s raining and windy outside and I feel everyone should be off work and just wait till the weather wind gets better… when a hot night I’d rather hop in the Chesapeake than take a shower… I don’t like Air conditioning then again I have never loved air conditioning… of course air conditioning has it’s place but when I came home someone had left the AC on to 68 degrees!!! My poor electric bill!!!...
I could continue to whine but I won’t.
Ha ha
Have a nice time
Pam
Monday, August 24, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
surprise Blog - life after cricket
Some of you have been missing my blogs. Well here is an update on life after Cricket. Work has been busy - too busy for me since i did not really want to jump in with all my body so fast. I was thinkin' I'd get some things cleaned up and then get stuff ready for Sept 8th when people go back to school/work. One couple said as we left Deltaville for home, "when you get home you will need a group to attend of sailors displaced." I laughed and thought it was funny but he was so right!
You all should see my calendar! Most all the weekends are full of this training or that, this MRID meeting or that, church meetings this or that, going to visit Annie in chicago (she is going to school there, this year at North Park), ... I have scheduled one weekend "open" a month sept and Oct. for Ben and I to do fun stuff. Plus we want to go camping of course. During the week, I have so many projects that I need to fit into my regular work stuff, accouting, taxes, financial projections then add i.e. make videos for the web and also videos of ASL training classes and a Deaf Awareness demo DVD. All this and pick up extra interpreting hours cuz we happen to be short interpreters in the busy season. Oh don't forget my mom and visiting her once a week, I have a hubby I want to do things with, I have church thursday night youth/young adult groups, wednesday is my group, mrid fund raisers, mrid meetings, etc... are any of you getting the overwhelmed feeling? eeeeek! oh and I want to visit the land and feed the birds. When it gets like this, when i see the hand writing on the wall then I usually retreat to the woods and take all my schedules with me and start slashing out things and making priorities, I schedule my time differently. many times i don't do this until October, but this year I think it might happen the first week of september. i do delgate a lot of my work (right staff?!) I'm going to have to prioritize better.
on top of the overwhelmingness XANDER KITTY IS LOST!!!!
he is my chubby orange tabby! he loves everyone and lets you hug him anytime you want. (which is not like Kiko) he is mellow and loves to loaf around the house, he loves training classes held here at the house so he can sit on each person's lap during a professional class. on wednesday night we was outside - there was rain coming - he has not come home since!!! I am so depressed and distraught! I love that cat and he loves us. he is a home-body not meant for outdoor living, he likes to sit on the porch and watch people... the office staff will miss him but not as much as Jase and I. (It is jason's cat) I am sad sad sad! I'm not feelin in the mood to do too many things right now. yes, i have put out flyers, called all the places, put an ad in craigs list... etc. i have left no stone unturned and nothing. so pray for Xander-bibbles!
so that is life after cricket!!!!
You all should see my calendar! Most all the weekends are full of this training or that, this MRID meeting or that, church meetings this or that, going to visit Annie in chicago (she is going to school there, this year at North Park), ... I have scheduled one weekend "open" a month sept and Oct. for Ben and I to do fun stuff. Plus we want to go camping of course. During the week, I have so many projects that I need to fit into my regular work stuff, accouting, taxes, financial projections then add i.e. make videos for the web and also videos of ASL training classes and a Deaf Awareness demo DVD. All this and pick up extra interpreting hours cuz we happen to be short interpreters in the busy season. Oh don't forget my mom and visiting her once a week, I have a hubby I want to do things with, I have church thursday night youth/young adult groups, wednesday is my group, mrid fund raisers, mrid meetings, etc... are any of you getting the overwhelmed feeling? eeeeek! oh and I want to visit the land and feed the birds. When it gets like this, when i see the hand writing on the wall then I usually retreat to the woods and take all my schedules with me and start slashing out things and making priorities, I schedule my time differently. many times i don't do this until October, but this year I think it might happen the first week of september. i do delgate a lot of my work (right staff?!) I'm going to have to prioritize better.
on top of the overwhelmingness XANDER KITTY IS LOST!!!!
he is my chubby orange tabby! he loves everyone and lets you hug him anytime you want. (which is not like Kiko) he is mellow and loves to loaf around the house, he loves training classes held here at the house so he can sit on each person's lap during a professional class. on wednesday night we was outside - there was rain coming - he has not come home since!!! I am so depressed and distraught! I love that cat and he loves us. he is a home-body not meant for outdoor living, he likes to sit on the porch and watch people... the office staff will miss him but not as much as Jase and I. (It is jason's cat) I am sad sad sad! I'm not feelin in the mood to do too many things right now. yes, i have put out flyers, called all the places, put an ad in craigs list... etc. i have left no stone unturned and nothing. so pray for Xander-bibbles!
so that is life after cricket!!!!
Sunday, August 16, 2009
At House - last blog
I'm sure some of you are going to miss these daily blogs.
We are back. we are almost to the daily grind. That starts on monday for me. I will be in the office.
now I need a group for displaced sailors re-emerging back into the "real" world and daily grind.
I have to shift my mind to having a to-do list, fitting all the many projects back into the schedule, looking at a calendar, knowing where I will be going every moment of the day before it happens, planning, washing clothes, making food, being lazy, etc... sounds overwhelming right now, but I will get into the swing of things. I just need some time to transition and mourn a bit.
i am happy i have a job to come back to, friends who love me and miss me and I them, happy to see my family, happy to have refrigeration and ice, happy to have a squishy bed, happy to see the cats (although Kiko has a funny way of showing love), happy to feeling loved by God no matte where I reside or what I do.
I will be back on top of the game by september 8th. the day after labor day.
here are a few pictures to end my pictures. I'm sure ben will put some on facebook.
until next year.
Signing off
Captain Pam
We are back. we are almost to the daily grind. That starts on monday for me. I will be in the office.
now I need a group for displaced sailors re-emerging back into the "real" world and daily grind.
I have to shift my mind to having a to-do list, fitting all the many projects back into the schedule, looking at a calendar, knowing where I will be going every moment of the day before it happens, planning, washing clothes, making food, being lazy, etc... sounds overwhelming right now, but I will get into the swing of things. I just need some time to transition and mourn a bit.
i am happy i have a job to come back to, friends who love me and miss me and I them, happy to see my family, happy to have refrigeration and ice, happy to have a squishy bed, happy to see the cats (although Kiko has a funny way of showing love), happy to feeling loved by God no matte where I reside or what I do.
I will be back on top of the game by september 8th. the day after labor day.
here are a few pictures to end my pictures. I'm sure ben will put some on facebook.
until next year.
Signing off
Captain Pam
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Captain Pam!
Captain Pam
Today was haul out. I finally earned captain Pam.
Normally at the last dock they drove your boat or they pushed the boat with a power dinghy and would bring the boat to get hauled out. Here I met John. I asked "How do you do it here?" my worst fear his answer," you back it up for us". I replied, " do you back it up? I am a new boat owner." He said "bring it around back it up the best you can and we will catch you with your dock lines. " my heart was pounding! I told Ben what John had said. Ben said "oh you can do it." But I have never done it before. In theory I could do it... I think. So john I think went to get two more guys to help catch me. (a total of four men standing at the haul out slip my heart pounding , i had a lump in my throat and i actually was nervous shaking just slightly But I did not need anyones helped I backed it in perfectly and I mean perfectly. I was getting close and John said, " good job captain!" I smiled huge on the inside!! This was the first guy to call me captain during the whole summer. I watched as we would dock other places and men call each other Captain all the time. On the radio they address each other captain. Never have I been called captain all summer and there were times it could have happened. I think they have called ben captain on the radio and at dock. But not me. Even though I've always been the driver and the person that brings the money in to pay and the guy that writes in the log book. So here was John he said I backed it up better than guys that had been boating for 15 years. I did not get a big head cuz I knew there was no wind. Add a 3 mph wind and I'd have problems. But I'm happy with my end of year accomplishment! So what there was no wind. I still backed up a monsterly big boat that does not like to back.
I am so tired emotionally and physically. This morning I scrubed the deck. All the fiberglass. Tired! Then a guy from the boatyard showed us about our engine and how to maintenance it! Fun. I learned so much about the engine. Way cool. My brain hurts today from all that work. Deanna and Dave are here to pick us up. So we went out to eat at cocomos. Tomorrow we need to get up early and finish a few tasks. Right now they all are dnghying o. The biopbosphoresence bay. I stayed back to get to bed. I'm getting old when sleep sounds better than playing in the bay.
God has blessed me and keeps blessing me. ! Amen
Owen is happy to be on the hard
Pam
Today was haul out. I finally earned captain Pam.
Normally at the last dock they drove your boat or they pushed the boat with a power dinghy and would bring the boat to get hauled out. Here I met John. I asked "How do you do it here?" my worst fear his answer," you back it up for us". I replied, " do you back it up? I am a new boat owner." He said "bring it around back it up the best you can and we will catch you with your dock lines. " my heart was pounding! I told Ben what John had said. Ben said "oh you can do it." But I have never done it before. In theory I could do it... I think. So john I think went to get two more guys to help catch me. (a total of four men standing at the haul out slip my heart pounding , i had a lump in my throat and i actually was nervous shaking just slightly But I did not need anyones helped I backed it in perfectly and I mean perfectly. I was getting close and John said, " good job captain!" I smiled huge on the inside!! This was the first guy to call me captain during the whole summer. I watched as we would dock other places and men call each other Captain all the time. On the radio they address each other captain. Never have I been called captain all summer and there were times it could have happened. I think they have called ben captain on the radio and at dock. But not me. Even though I've always been the driver and the person that brings the money in to pay and the guy that writes in the log book. So here was John he said I backed it up better than guys that had been boating for 15 years. I did not get a big head cuz I knew there was no wind. Add a 3 mph wind and I'd have problems. But I'm happy with my end of year accomplishment! So what there was no wind. I still backed up a monsterly big boat that does not like to back.
I am so tired emotionally and physically. This morning I scrubed the deck. All the fiberglass. Tired! Then a guy from the boatyard showed us about our engine and how to maintenance it! Fun. I learned so much about the engine. Way cool. My brain hurts today from all that work. Deanna and Dave are here to pick us up. So we went out to eat at cocomos. Tomorrow we need to get up early and finish a few tasks. Right now they all are dnghying o. The biopbosphoresence bay. I stayed back to get to bed. I'm getting old when sleep sounds better than playing in the bay.
God has blessed me and keeps blessing me. ! Amen
Owen is happy to be on the hard
Pam
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Amazingly boring log. Read if you like
Storms and cooler weather!
We dinghy in to deltaville and then the storm came so Owen is manning the ship. Good thing he loves storms. He Sits under the dodger and then tries to catch the drips. Today was a day of cleaning and winterizing. Tomorrow the engine will have it's 500 hour check. They are going to do show and tell. We hope they will show us how to maintenance and winterized our boat.
Today nothing big. We tried to stay cool. It was 96 today. I'm amazed at how you can get more used to hot weather day after day.
Oh we ate dinner in the community porch and listened tobstoties and learned some wise words from experienced sailors. There is an overwhelming amount of things to learn! We have our winter cut out for us to learn single side band and etc. Now I shall eat nutella and crackers and go to bed in a cool cabin! Yippy.
God showers us with people we need in our lives.
Good might
Pam
We dinghy in to deltaville and then the storm came so Owen is manning the ship. Good thing he loves storms. He Sits under the dodger and then tries to catch the drips. Today was a day of cleaning and winterizing. Tomorrow the engine will have it's 500 hour check. They are going to do show and tell. We hope they will show us how to maintenance and winterized our boat.
Today nothing big. We tried to stay cool. It was 96 today. I'm amazed at how you can get more used to hot weather day after day.
Oh we ate dinner in the community porch and listened tobstoties and learned some wise words from experienced sailors. There is an overwhelming amount of things to learn! We have our winter cut out for us to learn single side band and etc. Now I shall eat nutella and crackers and go to bed in a cool cabin! Yippy.
God showers us with people we need in our lives.
Good might
Pam
Monday, August 10, 2009
Hotter than yesterday!!!
Too hot to blog
Todays normal temp 100
Heat index 110
Our boat is a solar collector and now is radiating the days heat inside. The misquitos are hungry outside with not a breath of wind again to shoosh them away.
The boat luckily is still in the water due to waiting for boatyard stuff.
I got up early this morning to clean while in the coolness!
We did go out to dinner. I'm stuffed and hot.
Notyet miserable but the evening is not over I'll tell you all tomorrow.
That's all the summer is coming to and end soon and you few people that read this will no longer know what is up with my life. Maybe I'll blog about work? Ha ha just kidding.
Good night all
Grace and peace
Pam
Todays normal temp 100
Heat index 110
Our boat is a solar collector and now is radiating the days heat inside. The misquitos are hungry outside with not a breath of wind again to shoosh them away.
The boat luckily is still in the water due to waiting for boatyard stuff.
I got up early this morning to clean while in the coolness!
We did go out to dinner. I'm stuffed and hot.
Notyet miserable but the evening is not over I'll tell you all tomorrow.
That's all the summer is coming to and end soon and you few people that read this will no longer know what is up with my life. Maybe I'll blog about work? Ha ha just kidding.
Good night all
Grace and peace
Pam
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Hot and humid oh my!
Heat index 105 no wind not even a breath!!!
Today was a quiet day. We slept in cuz it was cool. Then biked to coffee shop slurped up iced coffee. Then back. We slowly took Down the sails. Sad sad sad time to take the boat out. It is going to be even hotter tomorrow and now we will be on the hard where no wind not cool water oh my!
Today we took down a sail then jumped in the water. Took down a second sail jumped in the water. Ditto. Then set the sails on land to fold up. Then hopped in the pool. Hot hot. Then ate tuna fish sandwiches. Hopped in the water. Then we went for an evening dinghy ride up the river. That was the highlight of my day!! It was a bit cool. Well there was a breeze from the boat. It was beautiful and romantic as the sunset. and we explored the riverside. Oh wait I. Forgot. Owen now knows how to sit in a basket of a bike! Yes we brought Owen to coffee with us. He was so adorable in the basket. He was nervous but then he ducked his head down low and just was quiet.
Amazing cat I'd say.
Ok back to hot and there are misquitos and no see ums around tonight due to no wind!!! Ahhh! I think it is hot. When Sharon and I were little we stayed at her house without AC. We would put ice cubes in our bellybuttons and let them slowly melt. I would do jsut about anything for an ice cube. At least we do have small fans! That helps a bunch. Well have a nice night sleeping in your cool Minnesota air.
Hugs n kisses
Live from above
Pam
Today was a quiet day. We slept in cuz it was cool. Then biked to coffee shop slurped up iced coffee. Then back. We slowly took Down the sails. Sad sad sad time to take the boat out. It is going to be even hotter tomorrow and now we will be on the hard where no wind not cool water oh my!
Today we took down a sail then jumped in the water. Took down a second sail jumped in the water. Ditto. Then set the sails on land to fold up. Then hopped in the pool. Hot hot. Then ate tuna fish sandwiches. Hopped in the water. Then we went for an evening dinghy ride up the river. That was the highlight of my day!! It was a bit cool. Well there was a breeze from the boat. It was beautiful and romantic as the sunset. and we explored the riverside. Oh wait I. Forgot. Owen now knows how to sit in a basket of a bike! Yes we brought Owen to coffee with us. He was so adorable in the basket. He was nervous but then he ducked his head down low and just was quiet.
Amazing cat I'd say.
Ok back to hot and there are misquitos and no see ums around tonight due to no wind!!! Ahhh! I think it is hot. When Sharon and I were little we stayed at her house without AC. We would put ice cubes in our bellybuttons and let them slowly melt. I would do jsut about anything for an ice cube. At least we do have small fans! That helps a bunch. Well have a nice night sleeping in your cool Minnesota air.
Hugs n kisses
Live from above
Pam
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Night watch continue & check my new website!
Night shift continued - check out my website!
5:00 am
Windy
Wavey
We have arrived early to deltaville. We actually arrived to the enterance at three am right at the time of my shift. So I am wasting time tacking back and forth cuz the enterence to deltaville you barely want to tackle it during the day let alone the night. It is curvey and a small channel and I have grounded twice in the day light. So ben went to bed and said enjoy sailing around. Oh and by the way you are almost out of house batteries. Whcih means I have to run the engine for a while. So I set out straight east. Trimmed the sail inefficiently so I would go slow and I still ended up cruising at 6 knots. Crazy!
Then I was headed for the shipping lane. I saw a ship way off. Plenty of time to catch it on radar. I could not sight it. I played with the gain. Still no pink blob on my screen. I thought I'll wait to see how close he gets and I hope he stays in the shipping lane and I will stay out of it. I got as close to the lane as I wanted then tacked back directly west. He must think I'm silly to make a 180 degree turn I'll be out here the whole night. If he thought that he would be right. Ha ha ha. This time I drew a picture of the light configuration. I'm not tired and am wide awake. I know what I saw which is the opposite of what I thought I learned. I can't wait to look it up tomorrow in our sailing book. There really is less traffic here than all those freighters sitting around in the Atlantic. And I am sailing 5 miles east then 5 miles west. Then I get to do it again cuz I am jammin in the wind. Bonus I got the cape horn to work! Gotta love that mechanical thingie of an auto pilot.
5;44am the moon is setting and the sun us rising. It is partly cloudy and still a bit hazey. I just tacked back east to enjoy 5 knots and to watch the pink become the sunrise. Welp tonight is the last sail of the season. I have my list of things to do and then my mind has already started a work to do list.
Make videos: promo video of training classed and teaching videos. Oh hey all those that have not seen my website lately bop on www.aslis.com. Let me know if the opening video works. I went to wifi last week and bens computer (yes a mac) his worked fine and of course my computer it did not work. Grrrrr! So all you check it out. Let me know what worked or didn't and for any grammar mistakes. Deanna edited and produced the videos. It was fun. The first video took us two hours for two minutes but then I got the hang of not making so many mistakes. More to come.
Arrived and took a shower and shaved! Then we biked to a late lunch yum crab cakes ! Then walked the pier re-met a couple we met two weeks ago. Toured theirboat. Now to nappy after watching a big storm again.
Anchor is tight I shall sleep soundly!
Grace Pam
5:00 am
Windy
Wavey
We have arrived early to deltaville. We actually arrived to the enterance at three am right at the time of my shift. So I am wasting time tacking back and forth cuz the enterence to deltaville you barely want to tackle it during the day let alone the night. It is curvey and a small channel and I have grounded twice in the day light. So ben went to bed and said enjoy sailing around. Oh and by the way you are almost out of house batteries. Whcih means I have to run the engine for a while. So I set out straight east. Trimmed the sail inefficiently so I would go slow and I still ended up cruising at 6 knots. Crazy!
Then I was headed for the shipping lane. I saw a ship way off. Plenty of time to catch it on radar. I could not sight it. I played with the gain. Still no pink blob on my screen. I thought I'll wait to see how close he gets and I hope he stays in the shipping lane and I will stay out of it. I got as close to the lane as I wanted then tacked back directly west. He must think I'm silly to make a 180 degree turn I'll be out here the whole night. If he thought that he would be right. Ha ha ha. This time I drew a picture of the light configuration. I'm not tired and am wide awake. I know what I saw which is the opposite of what I thought I learned. I can't wait to look it up tomorrow in our sailing book. There really is less traffic here than all those freighters sitting around in the Atlantic. And I am sailing 5 miles east then 5 miles west. Then I get to do it again cuz I am jammin in the wind. Bonus I got the cape horn to work! Gotta love that mechanical thingie of an auto pilot.
5;44am the moon is setting and the sun us rising. It is partly cloudy and still a bit hazey. I just tacked back east to enjoy 5 knots and to watch the pink become the sunrise. Welp tonight is the last sail of the season. I have my list of things to do and then my mind has already started a work to do list.
Make videos: promo video of training classed and teaching videos. Oh hey all those that have not seen my website lately bop on www.aslis.com. Let me know if the opening video works. I went to wifi last week and bens computer (yes a mac) his worked fine and of course my computer it did not work. Grrrrr! So all you check it out. Let me know what worked or didn't and for any grammar mistakes. Deanna edited and produced the videos. It was fun. The first video took us two hours for two minutes but then I got the hang of not making so many mistakes. More to come.
Arrived and took a shower and shaved! Then we biked to a late lunch yum crab cakes ! Then walked the pier re-met a couple we met two weeks ago. Toured theirboat. Now to nappy after watching a big storm again.
Anchor is tight I shall sleep soundly!
Grace Pam
Friday, August 7, 2009
Over night sail again
Sailing and blogging
Here we are doing another night sail. We both really liked sailing at night. It is cool and cool. I am on the 9-11 pm shift then the 3-7 am.
Right now relaxing light winds. No big or little boat traffic. The stars are just ready to pop out. The moon is orange and huge looking as it starts to rise. I can't get the cape horn auto pilot to work cuz the winds are too light.
I had a great day of taking turns everytwo hours. I played the mandolin. Sang songs. Called people. Fished. Looked for dolphins. Only saw a few fins far away. Read a little.
Oh here is random (can u tell it is a slow day) I look one step removed from being a homeless person. I have not washed my hair is days. I'm not telling how long either. Who knows what shampoo you use in salt water? Anyone want to google that?
Ha right now on the gps I think I am moving backwards even tho I am pointed north my course over ground is south. Ha ha ha. Well we will get there sometime tomorrow the wind is supposed to pick up. Ben is making beans and spam while I am on duty.
Oh here is an Owen story. Our cupboards all slide open he has finally figured how to open the bathroom locker. Oh he is so mischief at night and loud. He keeps me awake for a good hour at night so this night sailing will be good for him. I will be ready to play with him!!!!
Hummm supper smells good!
Playing on the stereo are many classical songs and such. Ben grew up with classical. I played piano mostly classical. I like it but during my night morning shift I will play any song I can sing to so I can stay awake. These songs now make me want to snooze and it is only 9:48 p.
Today I also saw many foofer size fishjump out of the water happily dancing and twisting and turning.
Note to self. When you hear a lot of birds chirping out here it is probably a fish trap area! They like to purch on the poles. I was hearing birds then popped on radar to find a disturbance in the force fields and sure enough there is a fish trap. Fish traps on the Chesapeake are a bunch of big poles protruding from the water. Very ugly. Hold on ohhh boy it is foggy and still all of a sudden. A big haze has fallen over the moon and me. Back to the fish traps some are poles on a round circle about 60 feet diameter some are in a straight line about the length of a football field. These are mostly not marked on the maps. At night on the radar I just found out what they appear to look like. Good thing I did not run into that. Of course I am only moving at a slow walk so we would bounce off the poles. I think?
Many times before a wind shift the wind goes calm and when it starts up again it is from a different direction like right now. Changing course.
That's all for now. Nighty night all sleep in His arms
Pam
Here we are doing another night sail. We both really liked sailing at night. It is cool and cool. I am on the 9-11 pm shift then the 3-7 am.
Right now relaxing light winds. No big or little boat traffic. The stars are just ready to pop out. The moon is orange and huge looking as it starts to rise. I can't get the cape horn auto pilot to work cuz the winds are too light.
I had a great day of taking turns everytwo hours. I played the mandolin. Sang songs. Called people. Fished. Looked for dolphins. Only saw a few fins far away. Read a little.
Oh here is random (can u tell it is a slow day) I look one step removed from being a homeless person. I have not washed my hair is days. I'm not telling how long either. Who knows what shampoo you use in salt water? Anyone want to google that?
Ha right now on the gps I think I am moving backwards even tho I am pointed north my course over ground is south. Ha ha ha. Well we will get there sometime tomorrow the wind is supposed to pick up. Ben is making beans and spam while I am on duty.
Oh here is an Owen story. Our cupboards all slide open he has finally figured how to open the bathroom locker. Oh he is so mischief at night and loud. He keeps me awake for a good hour at night so this night sailing will be good for him. I will be ready to play with him!!!!
Hummm supper smells good!
Playing on the stereo are many classical songs and such. Ben grew up with classical. I played piano mostly classical. I like it but during my night morning shift I will play any song I can sing to so I can stay awake. These songs now make me want to snooze and it is only 9:48 p.
Today I also saw many foofer size fishjump out of the water happily dancing and twisting and turning.
Note to self. When you hear a lot of birds chirping out here it is probably a fish trap area! They like to purch on the poles. I was hearing birds then popped on radar to find a disturbance in the force fields and sure enough there is a fish trap. Fish traps on the Chesapeake are a bunch of big poles protruding from the water. Very ugly. Hold on ohhh boy it is foggy and still all of a sudden. A big haze has fallen over the moon and me. Back to the fish traps some are poles on a round circle about 60 feet diameter some are in a straight line about the length of a football field. These are mostly not marked on the maps. At night on the radar I just found out what they appear to look like. Good thing I did not run into that. Of course I am only moving at a slow walk so we would bounce off the poles. I think?
Many times before a wind shift the wind goes calm and when it starts up again it is from a different direction like right now. Changing course.
That's all for now. Nighty night all sleep in His arms
Pam
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Day O Lists and storms!
A day of lists
It was stormy again we divided to just "be". So we made a list of things to do, boring but here it is:
Need anchor rode n chain for danforth
Look into navonics system
Take a weather course on how to read the weather
Take a Blue water navigation course
Get our side band radio license
Do insurance stuff
Hatch screen measurements
Measurements for
Tarps-awning
Table
Fan for companionway
Get hand held gps for back up
Rules for registering boat decal? Dinghy too?
Put gloves in chest for anchor emergencies
Honda generator
Hard top dodger in far future
Get power sail book Wallace Ross
Get new flairs
Thing to do at marine:
Fiberglass floor timber support
Meet electrician
Test house battery
Test house system?
Link 10?
Check holding tank and advise
Put screw on electrical panel
Belt cover for engine
Sink drainage
Diesel fuel empty/full gauge!
Cotter pins
Wind transducer?
Why is our anchor light so dim?
Diesel additive
Change fuel filter
Change oil
Uffda! That was a thinking day. We also brought Owen into shore for a walk and supper. Who would have guessed it would down pour. We were ready. We had rain coat and umbrellas. Owen sat snuggly in our back pack. I have some cute pictures of him and Ben. We also strolled thru Hampton college. An adorable old college. We talked about Pentecost and tongues of fire and people that see God but don't believe. How can that be? Well tonight is our second movie night. Kontiki. Have a great sleep! I will cuz I know our anchor is set tight cuz of last nigts storm! Zzzz I love you all. Everyone of you! Oh hi Fozzy how was the bwca? Ben n I prayed for your group. We had to sniff away some sadness for us not being there!
Ok
Zzzzzzzz
It was stormy again we divided to just "be". So we made a list of things to do, boring but here it is:
Need anchor rode n chain for danforth
Look into navonics system
Take a weather course on how to read the weather
Take a Blue water navigation course
Get our side band radio license
Do insurance stuff
Hatch screen measurements
Measurements for
Tarps-awning
Table
Fan for companionway
Get hand held gps for back up
Rules for registering boat decal? Dinghy too?
Put gloves in chest for anchor emergencies
Honda generator
Hard top dodger in far future
Get power sail book Wallace Ross
Get new flairs
Thing to do at marine:
Fiberglass floor timber support
Meet electrician
Test house battery
Test house system?
Link 10?
Check holding tank and advise
Put screw on electrical panel
Belt cover for engine
Sink drainage
Diesel fuel empty/full gauge!
Cotter pins
Wind transducer?
Why is our anchor light so dim?
Diesel additive
Change fuel filter
Change oil
Uffda! That was a thinking day. We also brought Owen into shore for a walk and supper. Who would have guessed it would down pour. We were ready. We had rain coat and umbrellas. Owen sat snuggly in our back pack. I have some cute pictures of him and Ben. We also strolled thru Hampton college. An adorable old college. We talked about Pentecost and tongues of fire and people that see God but don't believe. How can that be? Well tonight is our second movie night. Kontiki. Have a great sleep! I will cuz I know our anchor is set tight cuz of last nigts storm! Zzzz I love you all. Everyone of you! Oh hi Fozzy how was the bwca? Ben n I prayed for your group. We had to sniff away some sadness for us not being there!
Ok
Zzzzzzzz
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Fun house and Day o nothing ahhhh :)
I've been waiting for a slow day to give you the fun house analogy. So here it is then after that my nothing day.
Fun house
Sailing is like a fun house. Ya know when you walk in usually there is a bridge that moves and you grab a rail to try and get thru. Walking from the stern to the bow while sailing you grab the rails and life lines while the footing under you is all wooggie and rockin and bucking.
There is the house where everthing is tipped at a 45 degree angle and you try to walk. While the boat is healed over on a tack. If you go down below trying to get to the bathroom is very funny not to mention navigating to the bow of the boat, trying to open the door and shut the door, ok peeing is an art depending how far you are tipped over and which direction you are tipped.
Fun houses have peep holes to look through. Same does the boat have cute port holes where you see the world rock and roll. It messes with your mind and balance. There even is a shock value of a black cat passing by a port window. Ha ha
Fun houses have mirrors. Well we have one it is mounted just about too high for me to see myself so I don't look too often but when I do stand on my tippie toes the mirror is moving with the boat and I Look funny and I laugh. Also I have seen ben get thinner like a mirror. His hair is getting blonde-white, a pink nose like a clown. ( I have the pink burnt nose too.)
Fun house there are small tunnels to crawl through. We have our cute little bunk. You crawl up one step and fly into bed. Or the aft birth you wiggle in the bed and careful not to hit your head!!
Making food while under way is funny too. You stand at a sharp angle and the stove swivels back and forth. It is an optical illution. The food stays in the tilting sausepan.
While sitting in the captains chair one feels like you are sitting on a bucking bronco. Weeeee! That is fun!
Now the days non events
Day o rest
Got up
Dinghy to coffee shop.
Had coffee iced. 95 degrees humid.
Had devotions bought new bible on iPhone I love it!
Wifi
Went fir a walk
Dinghy back
Made eggs and corn beef hash yum
Turned on fan
Read book
started to think what we need to do to pack up and get ready to start for home.
Ben is watching a twins game on iPhone amazing! Great color
Done for the day
Storm coming yeah! Bring cold water!
That's all folks
Pam
iPhone battery low
Fun house
Sailing is like a fun house. Ya know when you walk in usually there is a bridge that moves and you grab a rail to try and get thru. Walking from the stern to the bow while sailing you grab the rails and life lines while the footing under you is all wooggie and rockin and bucking.
There is the house where everthing is tipped at a 45 degree angle and you try to walk. While the boat is healed over on a tack. If you go down below trying to get to the bathroom is very funny not to mention navigating to the bow of the boat, trying to open the door and shut the door, ok peeing is an art depending how far you are tipped over and which direction you are tipped.
Fun houses have peep holes to look through. Same does the boat have cute port holes where you see the world rock and roll. It messes with your mind and balance. There even is a shock value of a black cat passing by a port window. Ha ha
Fun houses have mirrors. Well we have one it is mounted just about too high for me to see myself so I don't look too often but when I do stand on my tippie toes the mirror is moving with the boat and I Look funny and I laugh. Also I have seen ben get thinner like a mirror. His hair is getting blonde-white, a pink nose like a clown. ( I have the pink burnt nose too.)
Fun house there are small tunnels to crawl through. We have our cute little bunk. You crawl up one step and fly into bed. Or the aft birth you wiggle in the bed and careful not to hit your head!!
Making food while under way is funny too. You stand at a sharp angle and the stove swivels back and forth. It is an optical illution. The food stays in the tilting sausepan.
While sitting in the captains chair one feels like you are sitting on a bucking bronco. Weeeee! That is fun!
Now the days non events
Day o rest
Got up
Dinghy to coffee shop.
Had coffee iced. 95 degrees humid.
Had devotions bought new bible on iPhone I love it!
Wifi
Went fir a walk
Dinghy back
Made eggs and corn beef hash yum
Turned on fan
Read book
started to think what we need to do to pack up and get ready to start for home.
Ben is watching a twins game on iPhone amazing! Great color
Done for the day
Storm coming yeah! Bring cold water!
That's all folks
Pam
iPhone battery low
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Put to sea and back 36 hrs and I'm tired!
First nght sail
It is 3:27 AM. It is my watch. The breeze is light but I am going four knots which is good. I have figured out the cape horn auto pilot so I am not using any electricity. The moon is full and bright. During the night you can see further cuz the big ships have a ton of lights on. My only question is what stinking way are they moving. Sometimes it is easy to tell. Right now there are four huge freight boats all in a line and they are now all anchored. This must be a holding place for the freigters to hang out before they go in to land. At this moment it is peaceful and all is happy. I like happy sailing! I like when the cape horn auto pilot works!! Then I can look around more. Go down below and make some navigation marks. I can eat a peanut and raisin with almond sandwich, yumm. Actually rght now 3:34am the wind is just starting to die down. So I might be a drift soon. It will pick up again. There are not many stars cuz the moon is so bright. About half an hour ago I saw this big bunch o lights moving across my horizon. What way are they going? Then the light configuration changed meaning the just turned. Oh great. I don't want to wake up Ben cuz he will say "it's fine you have plenty of sea room" mind you, I was just about to When I said to myself, you can figure it out. I turned on the radar. Got the target activated and now tracking. It seemed to be turning away from me. But all day today I been playing with the radar in the light and I can't seem to get the direction of the vessels heading. Well it tells me a head but I know for a fact with my eyes that is not the heading. That doesn't seem to bother Ben (then again a lot of thngs don't bother him which is a redeeming quality which I am possessing more of) but this time I eould rather know the heading and I think it worked. ? Well atleast he did go south. Then again I also changed my course until I felt better. The challenge was which way should I head? Phew that all worked out and I didn't have to wake ben. The moon is now starting to change to a peach color. It is quiet out here except for the rigging. Ya know in pirates movie. The davey jones locker one... They had many moon night scenes. The rigging is a silouette the bow sprit is bobbing up and down and you hear the lines moaning in a rythmic fashion. How cool and Erie all at the sametime.
I feel like I am finally out of the way of all the big guys. Ahhh I can and am relaxing. Sailing at night is cooler and has a different feel than during the day. Humm can't describe it. Sorry. I'm just so glad I'm not in clouds rain and too much wind. !!! I will ditto that statement!
Now I can back up. We got up. Got ready to go. It was hot and very humid. Like right now it is wet out here from humidity but not hot. We made it out of the anchorage. It is right next to Langley field. So many F-16 or so flying around two by two in formation. Super loud. There were two huge navy boats a big white boat with the red cross on it. And a handful of freighters. Over load for me. We puttered out of the way and stayed out of the shipping lanes. Oh boy now the moon is turning more to orange as it sets. Looks like I have one more hour with my pal the moon. I'm not tired cuz this is such a new experience just like the movie scenes.
So here is a formula I have been developing. It is called the sleep ratio. If I think the anchor is 50% good. Well then I sleep half the night. If it is 90% good. Then I sleep most of the night. Now if the anchor watch is on I sleep 100% of the night cuz I have had many anchor watches go off when we turn 180 degrees which is good. And 100% of the time I wake up fly out of bed to see whazzz up. But if the anchor watch goes off and I am wide awake then my ratio is low cuz I'm awake and the anchor watch went off for some reason. Now at night sailing if I feel ben will stay awake that adds to my sleepable percentage. If I feel like he wants to sail offf the charts ( we only have a 25 x 25 mile radius of maps. We have gps that goes further but what if the gps fails or the battery runs out. See how much a safety freak I am. And ben is not. I woke up at midnight cuz there was a lot of banging (we had lost our wind so things were flappin) I looked on The map and we were at the furthest corner of the map. Ben yells down as he sees me looking, "I was just going to tack" if I was awake I would have said miles ago, let's tack. I went back to bed but could not sleep even though he was turning around. (the moon is bright orange!!) wowwza!!! Now on my shift which started at 1:20am. I had to start out motoring cuz we used up too much battery on something? Weird. So my first hour and a half I motored away from the four boat congestion. Well to me it was. And now I feel like all is going good at this moment.
Owen likes sailing at night. He was sleeping next to me. Now he is prowling around. How fun! Humans awake in the night. Oh boy!
Today while underway I cooked spam. Tasted like growing up. Spam keeps without refrigeration. I have to admit it was a yummy sandwich.
Wow the moon is orange almost down and a zillion stars are popping out everywhere. It is 4:21am. I have six more miles on thus tack. Today has been the first day of what I thought saili g would be like. Set a course. Watch for boats. Change course if needed. Take turns sailing. We took 2hour shifts during the day and four hour shifts at night. I got to read. Make food. Relax. A few days of this and I'm sure boredom would set in... Well I'd get more crafts done! To night I get to blog a long letter to you all. There is no service out here. But I am on a tack back west to shore so it might happen I get service enough to shoot this out to googlespace.
The moon is no longer lighting up the water and the way. It is getting D A R K!! I can still see two of the four anchorged ships and the beacon light. I can't see where the water ends and the sky starts like I could with the moon bright. Are you all on the edge of your seats with questions of, now what? Well I am. The moon is almost down. Time to play doodle jump or flight control. Wait a light on the dark horizon. Have to pay attention.
It must have been an alien ship cuz it is gone. I have not had any baileys on my shifts.
More later I am so tired ben and I just got back in to anchorage. On the way in we had dolphins playing around us! We even saw them in the waves!!! Also in the waves were sting rays. Oh and the dolphins jumped out of the water like at the zoo!!
Good night zzzzzzzz
Blessings on yours and my sleep!
It is 3:27 AM. It is my watch. The breeze is light but I am going four knots which is good. I have figured out the cape horn auto pilot so I am not using any electricity. The moon is full and bright. During the night you can see further cuz the big ships have a ton of lights on. My only question is what stinking way are they moving. Sometimes it is easy to tell. Right now there are four huge freight boats all in a line and they are now all anchored. This must be a holding place for the freigters to hang out before they go in to land. At this moment it is peaceful and all is happy. I like happy sailing! I like when the cape horn auto pilot works!! Then I can look around more. Go down below and make some navigation marks. I can eat a peanut and raisin with almond sandwich, yumm. Actually rght now 3:34am the wind is just starting to die down. So I might be a drift soon. It will pick up again. There are not many stars cuz the moon is so bright. About half an hour ago I saw this big bunch o lights moving across my horizon. What way are they going? Then the light configuration changed meaning the just turned. Oh great. I don't want to wake up Ben cuz he will say "it's fine you have plenty of sea room" mind you, I was just about to When I said to myself, you can figure it out. I turned on the radar. Got the target activated and now tracking. It seemed to be turning away from me. But all day today I been playing with the radar in the light and I can't seem to get the direction of the vessels heading. Well it tells me a head but I know for a fact with my eyes that is not the heading. That doesn't seem to bother Ben (then again a lot of thngs don't bother him which is a redeeming quality which I am possessing more of) but this time I eould rather know the heading and I think it worked. ? Well atleast he did go south. Then again I also changed my course until I felt better. The challenge was which way should I head? Phew that all worked out and I didn't have to wake ben. The moon is now starting to change to a peach color. It is quiet out here except for the rigging. Ya know in pirates movie. The davey jones locker one... They had many moon night scenes. The rigging is a silouette the bow sprit is bobbing up and down and you hear the lines moaning in a rythmic fashion. How cool and Erie all at the sametime.
I feel like I am finally out of the way of all the big guys. Ahhh I can and am relaxing. Sailing at night is cooler and has a different feel than during the day. Humm can't describe it. Sorry. I'm just so glad I'm not in clouds rain and too much wind. !!! I will ditto that statement!
Now I can back up. We got up. Got ready to go. It was hot and very humid. Like right now it is wet out here from humidity but not hot. We made it out of the anchorage. It is right next to Langley field. So many F-16 or so flying around two by two in formation. Super loud. There were two huge navy boats a big white boat with the red cross on it. And a handful of freighters. Over load for me. We puttered out of the way and stayed out of the shipping lanes. Oh boy now the moon is turning more to orange as it sets. Looks like I have one more hour with my pal the moon. I'm not tired cuz this is such a new experience just like the movie scenes.
So here is a formula I have been developing. It is called the sleep ratio. If I think the anchor is 50% good. Well then I sleep half the night. If it is 90% good. Then I sleep most of the night. Now if the anchor watch is on I sleep 100% of the night cuz I have had many anchor watches go off when we turn 180 degrees which is good. And 100% of the time I wake up fly out of bed to see whazzz up. But if the anchor watch goes off and I am wide awake then my ratio is low cuz I'm awake and the anchor watch went off for some reason. Now at night sailing if I feel ben will stay awake that adds to my sleepable percentage. If I feel like he wants to sail offf the charts ( we only have a 25 x 25 mile radius of maps. We have gps that goes further but what if the gps fails or the battery runs out. See how much a safety freak I am. And ben is not. I woke up at midnight cuz there was a lot of banging (we had lost our wind so things were flappin) I looked on The map and we were at the furthest corner of the map. Ben yells down as he sees me looking, "I was just going to tack" if I was awake I would have said miles ago, let's tack. I went back to bed but could not sleep even though he was turning around. (the moon is bright orange!!) wowwza!!! Now on my shift which started at 1:20am. I had to start out motoring cuz we used up too much battery on something? Weird. So my first hour and a half I motored away from the four boat congestion. Well to me it was. And now I feel like all is going good at this moment.
Owen likes sailing at night. He was sleeping next to me. Now he is prowling around. How fun! Humans awake in the night. Oh boy!
Today while underway I cooked spam. Tasted like growing up. Spam keeps without refrigeration. I have to admit it was a yummy sandwich.
Wow the moon is orange almost down and a zillion stars are popping out everywhere. It is 4:21am. I have six more miles on thus tack. Today has been the first day of what I thought saili g would be like. Set a course. Watch for boats. Change course if needed. Take turns sailing. We took 2hour shifts during the day and four hour shifts at night. I got to read. Make food. Relax. A few days of this and I'm sure boredom would set in... Well I'd get more crafts done! To night I get to blog a long letter to you all. There is no service out here. But I am on a tack back west to shore so it might happen I get service enough to shoot this out to googlespace.
The moon is no longer lighting up the water and the way. It is getting D A R K!! I can still see two of the four anchorged ships and the beacon light. I can't see where the water ends and the sky starts like I could with the moon bright. Are you all on the edge of your seats with questions of, now what? Well I am. The moon is almost down. Time to play doodle jump or flight control. Wait a light on the dark horizon. Have to pay attention.
It must have been an alien ship cuz it is gone. I have not had any baileys on my shifts.
More later I am so tired ben and I just got back in to anchorage. On the way in we had dolphins playing around us! We even saw them in the waves!!! Also in the waves were sting rays. Oh and the dolphins jumped out of the water like at the zoo!!
Good night zzzzzzzz
Blessings on yours and my sleep!
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Me up the mast. Radar learning and more.
This morning as I was laying in bed looking at the weather report on my iPhone . I said to Ben. Do we have to leaved today? Cuz I don't know the radar yet and the weather has a chance of severe storms. He looked up NOAA the official ocean weather report and read it out loud. Then I pointed out for him to click on the red underlined words "hazard weather outlook". He read them, possible severe weather. Still he was not convinced. I asked why dd he want to go now? Tomorrow seems much better and it looks like a two day nice weather window. He replied he'd rather be out at sea then at an unprotected beach. I replied I'd rather move to a protected anchorage (3 miles away) then risk not knowing how to use the radar. He conceded to my pleading eyes. I could tell he wanted to go. I feel bad but I would be ten times nervous and I want a happy first time overnight sea experience not a thrilling one. We got up and moved the boat to a more protected area. Not the best but better.
Then we read the radar manual together. The first thing it said was do not use radar for the first time at night. Get to know the radar during the day first by sighting objects. He looked at me and laughed and shook his fist as a funny guesture and said Rrrrrrrr. I smile. It is a God thing. So we spent at least two hours playing, sighting, and working the radar. I will practice before bed. Then shove off tomorrow. Phew! I feel like such a "mom" or kill-joy. But I knew I can't sail and read how to do the radar. It takes me a long time to read and concentrate.
Remember yesterday the radar reflector and the line that got loose. Welp today I had a lot of fun. Cuz instead of ben going up the mast. I got to get hoisted up. That was not even scary once! It is way easier for ben to hoist me up than me him. And it is way fun to go up there.! Right now ben is putting up the refector so people will see us at night.
More later after the day is done.
Today was a day of more radar learning. We got severe storms and we got to watch them come in on our radar unit. Fun. I swam under the boat to dislodge the speedometer wheel. I checked the zinc too. Looks good. I cooked hotdogs and ate chips and cucumbers again. I read more of the book I got from oxford ice cream shop. The owner there wrote a book. How could I resist. And last we took a sunset wild dinghy ride through the big waves. Got totally drenched! We got to see Hampton college. Adorable. We walked a bit and then headed back home. Good thing we did not bring Owen. If we would have it would have been his last. Ha ha ha.
I talked in the phone. Yes you all can call me. Ya know. Now time for a snacky and beddie bye.
Sleep tight. Prayers for safety and good weather. Amen friends! Pam
Then we read the radar manual together. The first thing it said was do not use radar for the first time at night. Get to know the radar during the day first by sighting objects. He looked at me and laughed and shook his fist as a funny guesture and said Rrrrrrrr. I smile. It is a God thing. So we spent at least two hours playing, sighting, and working the radar. I will practice before bed. Then shove off tomorrow. Phew! I feel like such a "mom" or kill-joy. But I knew I can't sail and read how to do the radar. It takes me a long time to read and concentrate.
Remember yesterday the radar reflector and the line that got loose. Welp today I had a lot of fun. Cuz instead of ben going up the mast. I got to get hoisted up. That was not even scary once! It is way easier for ben to hoist me up than me him. And it is way fun to go up there.! Right now ben is putting up the refector so people will see us at night.
More later after the day is done.
Today was a day of more radar learning. We got severe storms and we got to watch them come in on our radar unit. Fun. I swam under the boat to dislodge the speedometer wheel. I checked the zinc too. Looks good. I cooked hotdogs and ate chips and cucumbers again. I read more of the book I got from oxford ice cream shop. The owner there wrote a book. How could I resist. And last we took a sunset wild dinghy ride through the big waves. Got totally drenched! We got to see Hampton college. Adorable. We walked a bit and then headed back home. Good thing we did not bring Owen. If we would have it would have been his last. Ha ha ha.
I talked in the phone. Yes you all can call me. Ya know. Now time for a snacky and beddie bye.
Sleep tight. Prayers for safety and good weather. Amen friends! Pam
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Sailing to anchoring. We are real sailors now.
Big sailing day
First remember all the sunscreen challenges and then I lost the last bottle. Well my nose now looks like a clown at a fun house. I bought new stuff yesterday so I hope that will help. Today I sailed at the helm most alllll day. Ben was practicing relaxing and navigating so when we take our night trip we can take turns well. So I'm beat. It was a long day tacking back and forth and I'm pooped! Ben is making supper. Today our big skill learned was.. It was our first time sailing to anchoring. I had the engine on but the motor was in neutral. You know me. Safety first. We are parked outside a beach just at the mouth of the Atlantic. Oh my sister asked about fishing. Here is the secret. I am a lousy fisherman. I went many years and many time with my dad but he forgot to teach me how to fish. I did put the bait on and take off the fish by my self but as to think where when and how. Nope or maybe I didn't listen. That could happen. So I have been fishing when it is light breezes. I don't know ocean fishing and frankly I'm a bit nervous to catch something big. Many nights while in a small river bay I fish but then I think I have too big of a fish hook for river fish. So the secret is out. I can't fish yet but I will get more practice I'm sure.
Today while under way ben decided to put up the radar reflector since we have not yet done that. Silly us then again we have only sailed a bit at sundown. So he decided to use the extra halyard we have to hoist it up there. The only thing is... Im sure he will tell the story about how careful he was. I just looked up as it came flying out of his hand and just before I was thinking why does he need to do that now in12 knot winds? Why not tomorrow. And then poof, gone. Oh well. I guess I hoist him up the mast tomorrow.
Tonight he made supper for me! Have I told you that he is the beat cook I know. I'm not fabricating. I love all the food he makes: chilli, beef stock, oatmeal cookies, stew, BBQ anything, waldorf cake, and his secret ingrediant that is not so secret. Love, extra love in all his creations no matter who he is cooking for.
So tonights amazingness was tuna fish sandwiches with cucumber!! We just got fresh food. So we will eat good for a few more days.
Time for me to go to bed zzzzz
Pam
In all thing acknowledge Him!
First remember all the sunscreen challenges and then I lost the last bottle. Well my nose now looks like a clown at a fun house. I bought new stuff yesterday so I hope that will help. Today I sailed at the helm most alllll day. Ben was practicing relaxing and navigating so when we take our night trip we can take turns well. So I'm beat. It was a long day tacking back and forth and I'm pooped! Ben is making supper. Today our big skill learned was.. It was our first time sailing to anchoring. I had the engine on but the motor was in neutral. You know me. Safety first. We are parked outside a beach just at the mouth of the Atlantic. Oh my sister asked about fishing. Here is the secret. I am a lousy fisherman. I went many years and many time with my dad but he forgot to teach me how to fish. I did put the bait on and take off the fish by my self but as to think where when and how. Nope or maybe I didn't listen. That could happen. So I have been fishing when it is light breezes. I don't know ocean fishing and frankly I'm a bit nervous to catch something big. Many nights while in a small river bay I fish but then I think I have too big of a fish hook for river fish. So the secret is out. I can't fish yet but I will get more practice I'm sure.
Today while under way ben decided to put up the radar reflector since we have not yet done that. Silly us then again we have only sailed a bit at sundown. So he decided to use the extra halyard we have to hoist it up there. The only thing is... Im sure he will tell the story about how careful he was. I just looked up as it came flying out of his hand and just before I was thinking why does he need to do that now in12 knot winds? Why not tomorrow. And then poof, gone. Oh well. I guess I hoist him up the mast tomorrow.
Tonight he made supper for me! Have I told you that he is the beat cook I know. I'm not fabricating. I love all the food he makes: chilli, beef stock, oatmeal cookies, stew, BBQ anything, waldorf cake, and his secret ingrediant that is not so secret. Love, extra love in all his creations no matter who he is cooking for.
So tonights amazingness was tuna fish sandwiches with cucumber!! We just got fresh food. So we will eat good for a few more days.
Time for me to go to bed zzzzz
Pam
In all thing acknowledge Him!
Friday, July 31, 2009
waiting for weather
Today we went into a wool shop here in yorktown. FUN, so now I am learning how to spin wool! it's all Becca's fault she showed me her spinning spool (way cool i thought you needed a wheel but you dont!) the woman at the store showed me how to spin and then we went to Becca's and we did it together. just what i need another crafty sport. ...Oh FYI remember all those finger puppets Krissy and I made for the philippians? (well we did) mike told Ben that they expected 50 kids to show and 200 came! oh my! we only made about 115....
back to crafts. So Becca and kids and ben and I just hung out in the afternoon, ate ice cream and then Ben and I went back... I had work-wifi stuff to do and a storm was coming. I hope the storm gets done by morning! our plans are to peek out into the Atlantic for a day or two. so you might not get any blogs. we will write them but we can't post them.
today we also need to plan for our trip. Ben has been looking on line to find the weather and ocean currents/tides so we know which way to go and the weather. He found Oceantides.com or something like that. we are planning to go out into wind as best as possible and against the current, we might stay in one spot but that way we know we will be able to get home. we will check the weather and ocean tides/currents just be fore we go to make sure it is all good. oh and we will get to use and practice our radar on the gps so we can see if we are in any big ships way. we will also have a float plan too. that will be given to Dan wellumson.
right now we are in Ben & Jerry's doing wifi.
that is my day. we will miss Jason and Becca and the kids!
I am thankful for rain and wind! tonight should be a night to get some sleep! i can sleep in a rough wind better than in dead calm with hot. needless to say i am tired and ready to sleep tonight!
love you all always blessed
Pam
back to crafts. So Becca and kids and ben and I just hung out in the afternoon, ate ice cream and then Ben and I went back... I had work-wifi stuff to do and a storm was coming. I hope the storm gets done by morning! our plans are to peek out into the Atlantic for a day or two. so you might not get any blogs. we will write them but we can't post them.
today we also need to plan for our trip. Ben has been looking on line to find the weather and ocean currents/tides so we know which way to go and the weather. He found Oceantides.com or something like that. we are planning to go out into wind as best as possible and against the current, we might stay in one spot but that way we know we will be able to get home. we will check the weather and ocean tides/currents just be fore we go to make sure it is all good. oh and we will get to use and practice our radar on the gps so we can see if we are in any big ships way. we will also have a float plan too. that will be given to Dan wellumson.
right now we are in Ben & Jerry's doing wifi.
that is my day. we will miss Jason and Becca and the kids!
I am thankful for rain and wind! tonight should be a night to get some sleep! i can sleep in a rough wind better than in dead calm with hot. needless to say i am tired and ready to sleep tonight!
love you all always blessed
Pam
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Sailing for fun with friends
Splendid day
Ben and I got to use becca and jasons car for the day!!! We got groceries! Yumm food back in the cabin. Then becca and family all climbed aboard the jimini captained by Ben. On to our big adventure. It was all of their first time sailing. Winds were about five knot a very light wind so it was fun for the kids. They all took turns at the helm and such. Jason was excellent crew where he mastered tacking the jib. While becca steered us in the correct wind direction. We sailed a bit in the river. The winds died and it was getting late for the kids and our tummys. So we tied up to the mooring and BBQ brauts! Yumm!! We all saw dolphins again! A great highlight and not to forget the sunsetting. Captain David was on the look out foe the mooring balls with his binaculars as he stood out on the bow sprit. While first mate Anna drew a nice picture for the boat while at the nav station.
Oh the highlight for Anna was the food. The highlight for me was the dinner prayers prayed by Anna and David. Oh so sweet! We shall stay one more day in Yorktown as we wait for a storm to pass with high winds.
Miss you all
Pam
Ben and I got to use becca and jasons car for the day!!! We got groceries! Yumm food back in the cabin. Then becca and family all climbed aboard the jimini captained by Ben. On to our big adventure. It was all of their first time sailing. Winds were about five knot a very light wind so it was fun for the kids. They all took turns at the helm and such. Jason was excellent crew where he mastered tacking the jib. While becca steered us in the correct wind direction. We sailed a bit in the river. The winds died and it was getting late for the kids and our tummys. So we tied up to the mooring and BBQ brauts! Yumm!! We all saw dolphins again! A great highlight and not to forget the sunsetting. Captain David was on the look out foe the mooring balls with his binaculars as he stood out on the bow sprit. While first mate Anna drew a nice picture for the boat while at the nav station.
Oh the highlight for Anna was the food. The highlight for me was the dinner prayers prayed by Anna and David. Oh so sweet! We shall stay one more day in Yorktown as we wait for a storm to pass with high winds.
Miss you all
Pam
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Responding to peoples comments
Thanks dad for sharing your excitment. Thanks Erin for the cool breeze prayers it worked tonight it is finally breezey! Will sleep good tonight! Today was 86 and humid. Now has to be 75 or so but breezy and nice zzzzzzzz
A day with good friends!
Nice day with Becca and Jason and their adorable kids!
We met and had ice cream! Yummm before that we drove the battle fields of yorktown. I stood where general George Washington stood! Their son David who is soon to be seven knows more about history than I do! Doesn't take much. What impressed me most about the day was how cute and adorable their two kids are. They remind me of my two cuz they play together nicely and are good friends. Now I know what people mean when they used to say to me, " wow your kids are so good together and they play so well together " it is so nice to see. Oh how it warms my heart. We then went and played games and made and ate pizza (daves recipe. Yummm thanks Dave steinie)!! Then we looked at pictures that beccca took. She is a great photographer. All in all a super night! Thank you so much Jason for kindly letting us use your car so tomorrow we can provision. ! Love you all and Gods blessings on the family.!! Pam
We met and had ice cream! Yummm before that we drove the battle fields of yorktown. I stood where general George Washington stood! Their son David who is soon to be seven knows more about history than I do! Doesn't take much. What impressed me most about the day was how cute and adorable their two kids are. They remind me of my two cuz they play together nicely and are good friends. Now I know what people mean when they used to say to me, " wow your kids are so good together and they play so well together " it is so nice to see. Oh how it warms my heart. We then went and played games and made and ate pizza (daves recipe. Yummm thanks Dave steinie)!! Then we looked at pictures that beccca took. She is a great photographer. All in all a super night! Thank you so much Jason for kindly letting us use your car so tomorrow we can provision. ! Love you all and Gods blessings on the family.!! Pam
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Hot hot and hot
Jamestown historic fort.
Today I was so excited to get going! I love old forts. This one has big square riggers.
We got off the free shuttle and ... There was no sailboats and no fort. Just an archiological (sp) dig. We saw footings from the old fort. Now if I was into walking around in 102 (heat index) degree day and looking at dirt and if I had a really good imagination. Well then it would not be so bad. Welp we were at the wrong place. We wanted to get off at the Jamestown settlement. Who would have known! Now I was happy even on 100 degree weather. We Learned a lot. Today was the first day of extreme heat and no wind. Hot! Right now we are all laying down in the salon with our tiny fans. Even Owen is so hot he's not moving. We are listening to the twins game! Go twins !
You'll have to excuse me while I signoff with sluggish ness of heat stroke. Ha ha
Blessings to you all!
Pam
P.S. Congrats to my dad. He is a new sailboat owner again. Takin after his daughter now. I guess the sailing bug got to him while he was here. Xoxo
Today I was so excited to get going! I love old forts. This one has big square riggers.
We got off the free shuttle and ... There was no sailboats and no fort. Just an archiological (sp) dig. We saw footings from the old fort. Now if I was into walking around in 102 (heat index) degree day and looking at dirt and if I had a really good imagination. Well then it would not be so bad. Welp we were at the wrong place. We wanted to get off at the Jamestown settlement. Who would have known! Now I was happy even on 100 degree weather. We Learned a lot. Today was the first day of extreme heat and no wind. Hot! Right now we are all laying down in the salon with our tiny fans. Even Owen is so hot he's not moving. We are listening to the twins game! Go twins !
You'll have to excuse me while I signoff with sluggish ness of heat stroke. Ha ha
Blessings to you all!
Pam
P.S. Congrats to my dad. He is a new sailboat owner again. Takin after his daughter now. I guess the sailing bug got to him while he was here. Xoxo
Monday, July 27, 2009
Now for something completely random!
First. Bens birthday. I made coffee. Cleaned the cabin. Did his kitty litter duty and his chores. Then we went to historic Yorktown. Ate at a yummy reataurant. Oh met the dock masters. A great group of guys! Another storm came in. We watched it from under the big bridge. We took the trolley Now ben and I will end with games and movies clips like cartoon shorts. See not too much excitement. Oh wait we picked up our first moorings. That was new and exciting. It only took us two trys. Amazing. Ben is at the bow with the boathook. I am trying to stop the boat on a dime. So he can hook the little white ball with a rope to attach our line to. I can't see the mooring due to me being in the stern. Infront of me is a mast, main sail neatly flaked, a staysail, an open hatch, big bow sprit, ben standing there, and the boat is 48 feet long. ben says forward and gives hand signals. Plus there is a current, waves and winds at 8 knots. All a mystery to me how we did it. I'm happy to be at a mooring!!! rather than Sarah creek and slipping in the mud with the anchor! And having to recite Isaiah 41:10. Smile.
So now for something totally random!
People ask me
"why do you make life so hard?" they usually are referring to the following ... At the shanty I walk 1/4 mile in, carry water and backpack ... For vacation I go walking in the woods,caneoing, active stuff. (why not live it up in a hotel? Lay around and spoil myself?) I'm sailing a big boat which is a lot of physical work. We pump our own water and try to do as many physical things as possible. Hoist sails, winch sheets, climb up and down steep stairs, pull up anchor, sometime fight with a wheel and much much more. At home I park far away to places whenever possible. I try to nordic track Etc.
Well I like outside to start with but many years ago I was in the waiting room to the neurologist and across from me was a woman my age, she told me she was in so much pain she couldn't do anything. She could not even keep a job. I felt sorry for her. She went in first then me. I said to my dr. Wow that poor lady. My doctor replied, "you and her have about the exact same diagnosis. I don't know what makes one person so different than another but you are in the top one percent of functioning adults. So whatever you are doing keep doing " (who can explain God and healing)
Hummm I thought. I like exercise but it is hard to be consistent unless I have a goal or a buddy to workout with. If I know I go to the bwca I start working out slowly six weeks before so I can make it. The mountian trip six months beforehand. If I put physical activity in my day, everyday, then I feel better. The moment I stop physical activity and sit at a desk day in and day out( and let me tell you it happens often. Every summer I do well and every fall I go back to work and crash by October. My back goes out etc) so sailing around the world is adventerous and also active. There have been times I have been not willing to take the harder trail but the easier trail (If I had my wish I would lay around more) but I know when I get into a more convient easy life. I get more tired, I get more pain, the pain keeps me from doing more and I get in a ficsious downward cycle of pain begats pain. That is part one.
Here is part two.
Ben came to me three years ago and said read this book "the Makers Diet" (not a weight loss book a different way of eating book) I read it and we promised to follow the recomendation in the books six week body cleanse. No processed food. It was amazingly hard. In the first two weeks of not drinking pop (which just about killed me) all feelings of carpul tUnnel left me! To this day I can have one pop or so but the next day I can feel my wrists. Now I have no wrist pain while interpreting. My head aches are now to once in a while not every week. I have more energy. I used to take many vitamins but never felt it made a difference. Now I take a few vitamins and my body uses the energy in the vitamins and i really have seen a big difference in health and energy. Myback aches less. I actually have days without pain more than with. Now when my back or neck go out. They usually only last for one to ten days. Where before it would be two weeks to three months with many types of pain meds. I have not had any pain meds for over one year! So you all can laugh all you want. And many do. I try to eat organic but organic is not the diet. It is all about putting the right enzymes in your gut so you can digest and use the food for good use. I try to be 90% good. I have eaten out a few times and yes i had mcdonalds once this summer - it happens- and it is still yummy! This summer I know I have lost my stupid ten pounds I have been complaining about all winter.
So the things I do help me to function. Pushing myself to do things is a way of lifestyle that is more adventageius than a sedimentary lifestyle. Yes sometimes I push myself too much and I suffer for it but on the flip side when I don't do enough I suffer for it too. It is quite the balancing act. I know my own body the best. I live in it. So many people say don't do this or that. Sometimes they are right but most times I am right about what I can and can't do. Like I know when my back is "solid" and can back pack 25 pounds and when it can't take picking up an ounce. Most back doctors say if your back is sore the best thing is walking not laying. Sometimes I can only walk to the mailbox and that is good for the day other days I can walk ten miles and still can go more!
I can lounge around for three to four days but if more then I start to lose the little muscle tone I have and I will start acheing the aching will tell my brain to lay around more, lies all lies, I need exercise not rest at that moment.
So when I'm laying around it is because I know rest is the answer in that situation on that day. Or I'm just enjoying my lounging time. Ben and I have enjoyed going to bed-and-breakfasts and PAMpering (ha ha look my name is in pampering! Funny it is in my nature and name to do that) ourselves once in a while. And if I eat too much processed food my body tells me the same thing, more yummy more junk, lies all lies, what I need to feel better is good food.
I'm not sure how to spell many of these but it is close. Her are my diagnosis' from doctors.
Carpul tunnel
Fibromyalgia (a diagnosis everyone with unexplained pain get -or so I think)
Condro myalsia (left knee rub with soon to tear)
Ottcipical (sp) nerve damage and headaches ( car accident)
Migrains (lose vision on left peripheral)
Dystonia thoratic ( overuse in the back rib area from holding up my arms for work)
Trigger thumb
Tennis elbow
Disk derrangement all levels of neck (car accident) the worst!!!
T-5 crushed and flattened disk (I think the T is neck) pain down arm. Pinky n
Ring finger numb
Two of neck disks are buldging
L-5 herniated lower back
L-6,7 buldging
Arthritis in my spinal area it is rated at a 62 year old
Whiplash tears from car accident
I'm sure there is more but can't think of them all. So this is why I sail. If my back goes out sailing I'm sure Ben could sail me somewhere. If he gets motion sick I'm sure I could sail us somewhere if we both are in bad shape at the same time I'm sure the boat will sail us somewhere.
So There you have one reason why sailing is on top of the options. It is for a short time in life. It is for fun health and life I love and miss all my kids, family and friends. I won't be gone forever.
Another random blog will be to continue why I love adventure. But another time.
Got to go. It is bens birthday you know.
Good night Gods blessings to you all!
Pam
So now for something totally random!
People ask me
"why do you make life so hard?" they usually are referring to the following ... At the shanty I walk 1/4 mile in, carry water and backpack ... For vacation I go walking in the woods,caneoing, active stuff. (why not live it up in a hotel? Lay around and spoil myself?) I'm sailing a big boat which is a lot of physical work. We pump our own water and try to do as many physical things as possible. Hoist sails, winch sheets, climb up and down steep stairs, pull up anchor, sometime fight with a wheel and much much more. At home I park far away to places whenever possible. I try to nordic track Etc.
Well I like outside to start with but many years ago I was in the waiting room to the neurologist and across from me was a woman my age, she told me she was in so much pain she couldn't do anything. She could not even keep a job. I felt sorry for her. She went in first then me. I said to my dr. Wow that poor lady. My doctor replied, "you and her have about the exact same diagnosis. I don't know what makes one person so different than another but you are in the top one percent of functioning adults. So whatever you are doing keep doing " (who can explain God and healing)
Hummm I thought. I like exercise but it is hard to be consistent unless I have a goal or a buddy to workout with. If I know I go to the bwca I start working out slowly six weeks before so I can make it. The mountian trip six months beforehand. If I put physical activity in my day, everyday, then I feel better. The moment I stop physical activity and sit at a desk day in and day out( and let me tell you it happens often. Every summer I do well and every fall I go back to work and crash by October. My back goes out etc) so sailing around the world is adventerous and also active. There have been times I have been not willing to take the harder trail but the easier trail (If I had my wish I would lay around more) but I know when I get into a more convient easy life. I get more tired, I get more pain, the pain keeps me from doing more and I get in a ficsious downward cycle of pain begats pain. That is part one.
Here is part two.
Ben came to me three years ago and said read this book "the Makers Diet" (not a weight loss book a different way of eating book) I read it and we promised to follow the recomendation in the books six week body cleanse. No processed food. It was amazingly hard. In the first two weeks of not drinking pop (which just about killed me) all feelings of carpul tUnnel left me! To this day I can have one pop or so but the next day I can feel my wrists. Now I have no wrist pain while interpreting. My head aches are now to once in a while not every week. I have more energy. I used to take many vitamins but never felt it made a difference. Now I take a few vitamins and my body uses the energy in the vitamins and i really have seen a big difference in health and energy. Myback aches less. I actually have days without pain more than with. Now when my back or neck go out. They usually only last for one to ten days. Where before it would be two weeks to three months with many types of pain meds. I have not had any pain meds for over one year! So you all can laugh all you want. And many do. I try to eat organic but organic is not the diet. It is all about putting the right enzymes in your gut so you can digest and use the food for good use. I try to be 90% good. I have eaten out a few times and yes i had mcdonalds once this summer - it happens- and it is still yummy! This summer I know I have lost my stupid ten pounds I have been complaining about all winter.
So the things I do help me to function. Pushing myself to do things is a way of lifestyle that is more adventageius than a sedimentary lifestyle. Yes sometimes I push myself too much and I suffer for it but on the flip side when I don't do enough I suffer for it too. It is quite the balancing act. I know my own body the best. I live in it. So many people say don't do this or that. Sometimes they are right but most times I am right about what I can and can't do. Like I know when my back is "solid" and can back pack 25 pounds and when it can't take picking up an ounce. Most back doctors say if your back is sore the best thing is walking not laying. Sometimes I can only walk to the mailbox and that is good for the day other days I can walk ten miles and still can go more!
I can lounge around for three to four days but if more then I start to lose the little muscle tone I have and I will start acheing the aching will tell my brain to lay around more, lies all lies, I need exercise not rest at that moment.
So when I'm laying around it is because I know rest is the answer in that situation on that day. Or I'm just enjoying my lounging time. Ben and I have enjoyed going to bed-and-breakfasts and PAMpering (ha ha look my name is in pampering! Funny it is in my nature and name to do that) ourselves once in a while. And if I eat too much processed food my body tells me the same thing, more yummy more junk, lies all lies, what I need to feel better is good food.
I'm not sure how to spell many of these but it is close. Her are my diagnosis' from doctors.
Carpul tunnel
Fibromyalgia (a diagnosis everyone with unexplained pain get -or so I think)
Condro myalsia (left knee rub with soon to tear)
Ottcipical (sp) nerve damage and headaches ( car accident)
Migrains (lose vision on left peripheral)
Dystonia thoratic ( overuse in the back rib area from holding up my arms for work)
Trigger thumb
Tennis elbow
Disk derrangement all levels of neck (car accident) the worst!!!
T-5 crushed and flattened disk (I think the T is neck) pain down arm. Pinky n
Ring finger numb
Two of neck disks are buldging
L-5 herniated lower back
L-6,7 buldging
Arthritis in my spinal area it is rated at a 62 year old
Whiplash tears from car accident
I'm sure there is more but can't think of them all. So this is why I sail. If my back goes out sailing I'm sure Ben could sail me somewhere. If he gets motion sick I'm sure I could sail us somewhere if we both are in bad shape at the same time I'm sure the boat will sail us somewhere.
So There you have one reason why sailing is on top of the options. It is for a short time in life. It is for fun health and life I love and miss all my kids, family and friends. I won't be gone forever.
Another random blog will be to continue why I love adventure. But another time.
Got to go. It is bens birthday you know.
Good night Gods blessings to you all!
Pam
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Winds. storm. Hail - anchored three times!
Winds storms hail - anchored 3 times!
Well today we left mobjack river cuz it was to be 95degrees and 10-15 winds. Today we were beating into wind and flying at 7.8 knots. That's screamin! That is the best ever!! Amazing what sail configurations do! Well the right ones.
Today against my best judgement we cut through this narrow path to avoid 2 extra hours. One map said it was seven feet narrow one map said five feet narrow one the gsp said seven at the narrow. Now if our gsp was at the wheel it would be so easy but instead it is at the nav station. So one of us yells to the other Port or Starboard by a little or lot or two degrees. Etc... I being captain have decided that Ben is way better at drivng and me way better at giving direction. I guess I'm good at giving direction. Just ask my staff. Or my kids. It is a strength that can be a limitation if used wrong. My personality , if any of you believe me, it is passive and not give direction. I like to give direction when no one else will do it or if I know I can do a better job. I even sit back and let others lead even when I could have done something different. It's all subjective. I am a horrible back seat driver cuz I have been in three accidents allnot my fault and me not driving. So when it comes to driving and safety I'd rather be captain than not. Even though I'd rather just be a midshipman. When Ben gets more experience I'm sure I'd rather be along for the ride. Unless he doesn't do the paper work involved. He hates paper work. Like right now we have been running on starbaord deisel for 21 hours. Soon I shall switch to port. The water tanks is on forward. The deisel fuel filter looks good the oil is one quart low which I plan to add tomorrow. I wrote down the weather report for the next few days. I review yesterdays tracks. The propane is on the second tank. There is enough food in the locker for two days. But we are near becca and Jason and soon they will drive us to reprovision! Like chocolate and bread. Yummmy
Today I played the eye doctor game. "do you like one ot two. One or two. Three or two ..." I would change the sail configuration and check speed. We had a great day of steady winds. It was so fun to try different stuff. I played with the blocks and boomvang ect... Up til now Ben has pretty much done the sails. But now I'm ready and I am way stronger than two weekes ago. I got a work out today. Even pulled up the anchor chain twice. Hoisted the sails. Oh while sailing we had our first bird sit on the bow sprit rail. Cute! We had one big old dragonfly and two other little ones. Fun fun. Don't ya love wild life? I do! "Go God Go"
Then we went into Sarah creek. A huge storm came up. We got to anchor but I had to run aground again. Ben was giving directions. We anchored and slipped back into the muddy shore line. The winds were 35 with hail. The boat totally heeled way over while anchored! Don't know why. I think cuz we were a ground? We pulled up and moved over but it would not hold. We move to a different part of the creek. We are holding but right on the edge of mud again. I hope I sleep tonight. The lord is so good. Today i didn't want to go through the pass. We past the enterence. But then for some reason I changed my mind. If we had not taken the short cut we would have been out in the storm. Which would have been not so bad. I think. It was big and scary but not worth worrying over. I did send a few prayers upward for safety and He listened. Amazing.
I am physically and mentally exhausted.
Good night.
Bens birthday on the 27 th! Don't forget to call or send prayers or brownies his way. Text and email will do too.
Miss you all
Pam
Ptl
Well today we left mobjack river cuz it was to be 95degrees and 10-15 winds. Today we were beating into wind and flying at 7.8 knots. That's screamin! That is the best ever!! Amazing what sail configurations do! Well the right ones.
Today against my best judgement we cut through this narrow path to avoid 2 extra hours. One map said it was seven feet narrow one map said five feet narrow one the gsp said seven at the narrow. Now if our gsp was at the wheel it would be so easy but instead it is at the nav station. So one of us yells to the other Port or Starboard by a little or lot or two degrees. Etc... I being captain have decided that Ben is way better at drivng and me way better at giving direction. I guess I'm good at giving direction. Just ask my staff. Or my kids. It is a strength that can be a limitation if used wrong. My personality , if any of you believe me, it is passive and not give direction. I like to give direction when no one else will do it or if I know I can do a better job. I even sit back and let others lead even when I could have done something different. It's all subjective. I am a horrible back seat driver cuz I have been in three accidents allnot my fault and me not driving. So when it comes to driving and safety I'd rather be captain than not. Even though I'd rather just be a midshipman. When Ben gets more experience I'm sure I'd rather be along for the ride. Unless he doesn't do the paper work involved. He hates paper work. Like right now we have been running on starbaord deisel for 21 hours. Soon I shall switch to port. The water tanks is on forward. The deisel fuel filter looks good the oil is one quart low which I plan to add tomorrow. I wrote down the weather report for the next few days. I review yesterdays tracks. The propane is on the second tank. There is enough food in the locker for two days. But we are near becca and Jason and soon they will drive us to reprovision! Like chocolate and bread. Yummmy
Today I played the eye doctor game. "do you like one ot two. One or two. Three or two ..." I would change the sail configuration and check speed. We had a great day of steady winds. It was so fun to try different stuff. I played with the blocks and boomvang ect... Up til now Ben has pretty much done the sails. But now I'm ready and I am way stronger than two weekes ago. I got a work out today. Even pulled up the anchor chain twice. Hoisted the sails. Oh while sailing we had our first bird sit on the bow sprit rail. Cute! We had one big old dragonfly and two other little ones. Fun fun. Don't ya love wild life? I do! "Go God Go"
Then we went into Sarah creek. A huge storm came up. We got to anchor but I had to run aground again. Ben was giving directions. We anchored and slipped back into the muddy shore line. The winds were 35 with hail. The boat totally heeled way over while anchored! Don't know why. I think cuz we were a ground? We pulled up and moved over but it would not hold. We move to a different part of the creek. We are holding but right on the edge of mud again. I hope I sleep tonight. The lord is so good. Today i didn't want to go through the pass. We past the enterence. But then for some reason I changed my mind. If we had not taken the short cut we would have been out in the storm. Which would have been not so bad. I think. It was big and scary but not worth worrying over. I did send a few prayers upward for safety and He listened. Amazing.
I am physically and mentally exhausted.
Good night.
Bens birthday on the 27 th! Don't forget to call or send prayers or brownies his way. Text and email will do too.
Miss you all
Pam
Ptl
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Hailed by a huge tug pulling freightor! Oh My!
Big sail day
When the student is ready the teacher will appear. This past winter I wanted to learn so much before I went sailing but was never motivated enough. Let me tell you I am motivated! So when it was time to trim in sailing school, I thoguht I was paying attention but apparently not. So we met up with Nancy n Darrell again. Good friends that taught us about docking and anchoring. Welp we had a wonderful time with them and Darrell talked about this book called power sail (or something like that). So all day Ben and I tried something different. We checked the line of the luff and the twist of the sails and we sailed more off the wind. Last time it was windy and we were nose into wind (beating in to wind) we did about 3.3 knots but today we played with this and that and got 5.5-6.5 knots. We felt pretty special.
This morning we left the small bay and sure enough guess who run aground but this time I ask you ... If the guy looking at the gps tells you to go to port and you driving run aground does that make it me running aground? Later in the day Ben said he has not run aground yet. I kindly informed him that he told me to go to port when I should have gone starboard. I checked the gps track to see what happened later in the day. Oh well I wiggled and wiggle the boat back and forth and got her free. Phew. There was a lot boats passng me. They all said don't worry it is low tide going to high. I knew that.
How many of you all are going to sail with us if we keep telling you stories like running aground. Anyway the day was long and fun. We did 48 miles which is a record for us. When we left this morning I thought we are going to have to motor but nope. Today Ben successfully reefed the main, he did an amazing job. It is No small task when the winds are 18 knots or so we think. (my iPhone said 18) so I'm going with it. I think when it is my turn to reef I'm going to have to start the engine and head into wind. Of course doing that is like admitting I bottle fed my babies (which I didn't.) well I did some time cuz I did but don't tell anyone. Silly. It would be like not being manly enough to reef the main in the driving wind. Oh yeah I'm not the manly type so I shall do things with engines and winches and pulleys cuz I can. Ha ha ha
Oh! This was exciting I had a huge tug boat pulling a freighter hail me. It was bens watch. I was below and I hear this guy hailing a sailboat near wolf trap ( well I had been navigating and Ben just happened to ask me what was that marker called it had a funny name wolf trap. We tacked back and forth a few times. I was below and I answeered I am a sailboat near wolftrap. We switched to another channel. He asked what my intentions were. Ahhh then he said. Tell me what you see off your starboard stern. I popped up my heAd and I came back on to say. Oh my a tug boat pulling a huge freighter. He said yup that is me. Now what are your intentions. I stumbled on my words cuz I was just thinking the same thing what is Ben doing getting so close. Mind you I am on the safety conservative and he is on the other side that most everything willl be fine. Ahhh was my reply. He said he was on a line to York river. I said I'm goi g to mobjack river. He came back with two options. Either stay your course and he will move a few degrees but if I decide that we have to do it now. Or tack out of the way. ( he was very nice and polite. I'm amazed he didn't say you're a dumb blonde move out of my way) Ben was wondering what was going on. I said the guy behind you wants us to move or stand firm. He said whatever. I in no way want to be close to anything one million tines bigger than me. I kindly told the guy I'll tack right now out of your way. I popped my head up and said tack tilll he is far far away. I felt like such a dummy to have to have them hail me to move. Good lesson I learned. Look behind you. I figure I have the right of way if I'm ahead except with those big boys. Wowwza! The only thing is... The tug boat captain had a different boat answer his hail and that other sailboat was not the right one. But while they were talking they addressed each other as captain but he never did that with me. Probably cuz I sounded so stupid. And I should not have been addressed that way cuz I was not paying attention like a "good" captain should. New lesson learned. Uffda!
Going to bed. I got sun burned cuz of that medication I'm taking. Grrrr. I put sunscreen on and am allergic to many sunscreens I thought this one was good but nope. My face is so red oh and add wind burn too. I'm beat!
God grace is sufficient.
Humbly
Captain Pam signing off
When the student is ready the teacher will appear. This past winter I wanted to learn so much before I went sailing but was never motivated enough. Let me tell you I am motivated! So when it was time to trim in sailing school, I thoguht I was paying attention but apparently not. So we met up with Nancy n Darrell again. Good friends that taught us about docking and anchoring. Welp we had a wonderful time with them and Darrell talked about this book called power sail (or something like that). So all day Ben and I tried something different. We checked the line of the luff and the twist of the sails and we sailed more off the wind. Last time it was windy and we were nose into wind (beating in to wind) we did about 3.3 knots but today we played with this and that and got 5.5-6.5 knots. We felt pretty special.
This morning we left the small bay and sure enough guess who run aground but this time I ask you ... If the guy looking at the gps tells you to go to port and you driving run aground does that make it me running aground? Later in the day Ben said he has not run aground yet. I kindly informed him that he told me to go to port when I should have gone starboard. I checked the gps track to see what happened later in the day. Oh well I wiggled and wiggle the boat back and forth and got her free. Phew. There was a lot boats passng me. They all said don't worry it is low tide going to high. I knew that.
How many of you all are going to sail with us if we keep telling you stories like running aground. Anyway the day was long and fun. We did 48 miles which is a record for us. When we left this morning I thought we are going to have to motor but nope. Today Ben successfully reefed the main, he did an amazing job. It is No small task when the winds are 18 knots or so we think. (my iPhone said 18) so I'm going with it. I think when it is my turn to reef I'm going to have to start the engine and head into wind. Of course doing that is like admitting I bottle fed my babies (which I didn't.) well I did some time cuz I did but don't tell anyone. Silly. It would be like not being manly enough to reef the main in the driving wind. Oh yeah I'm not the manly type so I shall do things with engines and winches and pulleys cuz I can. Ha ha ha
Oh! This was exciting I had a huge tug boat pulling a freighter hail me. It was bens watch. I was below and I hear this guy hailing a sailboat near wolf trap ( well I had been navigating and Ben just happened to ask me what was that marker called it had a funny name wolf trap. We tacked back and forth a few times. I was below and I answeered I am a sailboat near wolftrap. We switched to another channel. He asked what my intentions were. Ahhh then he said. Tell me what you see off your starboard stern. I popped up my heAd and I came back on to say. Oh my a tug boat pulling a huge freighter. He said yup that is me. Now what are your intentions. I stumbled on my words cuz I was just thinking the same thing what is Ben doing getting so close. Mind you I am on the safety conservative and he is on the other side that most everything willl be fine. Ahhh was my reply. He said he was on a line to York river. I said I'm goi g to mobjack river. He came back with two options. Either stay your course and he will move a few degrees but if I decide that we have to do it now. Or tack out of the way. ( he was very nice and polite. I'm amazed he didn't say you're a dumb blonde move out of my way) Ben was wondering what was going on. I said the guy behind you wants us to move or stand firm. He said whatever. I in no way want to be close to anything one million tines bigger than me. I kindly told the guy I'll tack right now out of your way. I popped my head up and said tack tilll he is far far away. I felt like such a dummy to have to have them hail me to move. Good lesson I learned. Look behind you. I figure I have the right of way if I'm ahead except with those big boys. Wowwza! The only thing is... The tug boat captain had a different boat answer his hail and that other sailboat was not the right one. But while they were talking they addressed each other as captain but he never did that with me. Probably cuz I sounded so stupid. And I should not have been addressed that way cuz I was not paying attention like a "good" captain should. New lesson learned. Uffda!
Going to bed. I got sun burned cuz of that medication I'm taking. Grrrr. I put sunscreen on and am allergic to many sunscreens I thought this one was good but nope. My face is so red oh and add wind burn too. I'm beat!
God grace is sufficient.
Humbly
Captain Pam signing off
Friday, July 24, 2009
taxes, taxes and more taxes
today was a cool day to hang around deltaville marine. get this for only $10 per person you get to use the facilites! wifi, wash clothes, take shower, go swimming, use free bikes and a car if you wish. we have taken advantage of most all. yes we have borrowed the car to go to the pharmacy for me AGAIN. grrrr. we biked to coffee, we biked to a baseball game were deltaville lost to the pirates by only 1 point. it was a nail bitter. so today I did 941, MN withholding, MN qtrly, Unemployment taxes, MRID year end which took me way longer than I thought cuz I had to reconcile last year's cash basis with this year. grrr. (most of it was done before and I had Jacquie at work do some for me - thanks Jacquie) boring but exciting to get things done. paid bills, reconciled accounts etc... you get the drift. But oh was I sharp to do all the math since we have left I have done a lot of math figuring out time distance and speed, and gps stuff. so since it was so boring today i thought I would add some pictues.
here goes
God is in the little stuff and the big stuff.
Pam
signing off
here goes
God is in the little stuff and the big stuff.
Pam
signing off
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Very short! Too late for me.
Today is just a listing of events day. It is late. Going to bed! Here is the list. ...
Sunny hot humid
Practiced our motoring skills
Successful docking to pump out the head. Frustrating the pump was not working well.
Ate smoked fish in a can, wasabi peas, cashews, raisins. No chocolate.
Wish Rebecca a happy birthday. Happy birthday Rebecca!
Anchored.
Visited our new friends Nancy n Darrell. Always a good time with them! Not only are they good people they are a wealth of information and always willing to share with us and they both tell great stories. God keeps blessing us daily!
Good night
Pam
Sunny hot humid
Practiced our motoring skills
Successful docking to pump out the head. Frustrating the pump was not working well.
Ate smoked fish in a can, wasabi peas, cashews, raisins. No chocolate.
Wish Rebecca a happy birthday. Happy birthday Rebecca!
Anchored.
Visited our new friends Nancy n Darrell. Always a good time with them! Not only are they good people they are a wealth of information and always willing to share with us and they both tell great stories. God keeps blessing us daily!
Good night
Pam
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Dolphins!
DOLPHINS! One crab
Welp this morning I was reading while Ben was still snoozing. I heard a sound almost like when a deer snorts in the woods when you get too close to their territory anyway I heard a snort looked around for deer on the sandy beach and there in the water were dolphins!!! A few maybe six or so. One was a mommy with the cutest small baby dolphin! Oh! Ben was excited too. He said, "Now that's worth getting up for. " then he looked at me and said something like, "ah ur a lot worth gettin up for..." I laughed and laughed and have had a great time teasing him about things worth getting up for. Ha ha. Today we decided to stay a day for me to rest. No complaints here. This is also a totally jelly free zone! I swam and swam and dove under the boat to check the zinc (which looks good) and there was like a stick or weed on it I was just reaching to move it and it moved! It was a crab hanging on to the zinc. Oh how funny. I did my girly squeel and shot for the air and yelled to Ben. Come see this crab he's worth getting up for. Ha ha ha ok that last part I did not say. But it makes for a good story. I still laugh.
We are actually going to watch a movie tonight. Fun! But no popcorn. Sad face me! Good night all. For those of you following along in Acts we just read 27 n 28 wild sailing stuff in the bible. We can relate to some things about wind but not to crashing.
Pam
oh I forgot we ended our day with a ride to the beach with owen while the sun set beautifully on the horizon with puffy clouds. We walked the beach while Owen played in the tall grass and tried to catch small crabs from their holes. What a nice end to this day. Amen
Welp this morning I was reading while Ben was still snoozing. I heard a sound almost like when a deer snorts in the woods when you get too close to their territory anyway I heard a snort looked around for deer on the sandy beach and there in the water were dolphins!!! A few maybe six or so. One was a mommy with the cutest small baby dolphin! Oh! Ben was excited too. He said, "Now that's worth getting up for. " then he looked at me and said something like, "ah ur a lot worth gettin up for..." I laughed and laughed and have had a great time teasing him about things worth getting up for. Ha ha. Today we decided to stay a day for me to rest. No complaints here. This is also a totally jelly free zone! I swam and swam and dove under the boat to check the zinc (which looks good) and there was like a stick or weed on it I was just reaching to move it and it moved! It was a crab hanging on to the zinc. Oh how funny. I did my girly squeel and shot for the air and yelled to Ben. Come see this crab he's worth getting up for. Ha ha ha ok that last part I did not say. But it makes for a good story. I still laugh.
We are actually going to watch a movie tonight. Fun! But no popcorn. Sad face me! Good night all. For those of you following along in Acts we just read 27 n 28 wild sailing stuff in the bible. We can relate to some things about wind but not to crashing.
Pam
oh I forgot we ended our day with a ride to the beach with owen while the sun set beautifully on the horizon with puffy clouds. We walked the beach while Owen played in the tall grass and tried to catch small crabs from their holes. What a nice end to this day. Amen
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Under the weather
Under the weather today.
We ate pancakes.
We sailed on a different tack. Heavenly and smooth point if sail. And fast and right to the spot.
But I woke up with a terrible bladder infection. Why do I get the embarrassing blogs to right. Well I could have said nothing but out of trouble comes help and more adventure. So we get to a cute bay. And I am miserable. Ben looks up pharmacy and sure enough we are a three mile dinghy ride to a two mile walk away and they close in two hours! While in transit I convince my doctor it is important I get relief NOw. ( I know about these things. I normally drnk cranberry juice for 48 hrs and poof it is gone but I also know when they are beyond cranberry juice) she said yes but I have to get the prescription sent to MN. What? Knock knock anyone home ? I'm in no mood to explain this again I have two hrs to get to a pharmacy.) So she asked if I had the phone number to the pharmacy here. I do. They did it. And here go Ben and I on a hot day. Up the river. Down the road. To The pharmacy. Ahhh the pharmasist loved our accents. Of course hers was sweet too. We left there went to a take out food place and standing in line this guy offers us a ride! I gladly take it. When God sends you a ride you take it! On the way back he said if there is anything we need to get he would let us drive his convertable jaugar around town. Wowwie. Amazing. His name was Jimmy Carter and he lives on Carter creek road. No not the president. So another day of navigation around towns, creeks , bays etc. Adventure at it finest.
All thus excitement I deserve to go to bed! And rest!
Pam
We ate pancakes.
We sailed on a different tack. Heavenly and smooth point if sail. And fast and right to the spot.
But I woke up with a terrible bladder infection. Why do I get the embarrassing blogs to right. Well I could have said nothing but out of trouble comes help and more adventure. So we get to a cute bay. And I am miserable. Ben looks up pharmacy and sure enough we are a three mile dinghy ride to a two mile walk away and they close in two hours! While in transit I convince my doctor it is important I get relief NOw. ( I know about these things. I normally drnk cranberry juice for 48 hrs and poof it is gone but I also know when they are beyond cranberry juice) she said yes but I have to get the prescription sent to MN. What? Knock knock anyone home ? I'm in no mood to explain this again I have two hrs to get to a pharmacy.) So she asked if I had the phone number to the pharmacy here. I do. They did it. And here go Ben and I on a hot day. Up the river. Down the road. To The pharmacy. Ahhh the pharmasist loved our accents. Of course hers was sweet too. We left there went to a take out food place and standing in line this guy offers us a ride! I gladly take it. When God sends you a ride you take it! On the way back he said if there is anything we need to get he would let us drive his convertable jaugar around town. Wowwie. Amazing. His name was Jimmy Carter and he lives on Carter creek road. No not the president. So another day of navigation around towns, creeks , bays etc. Adventure at it finest.
All thus excitement I deserve to go to bed! And rest!
Pam
Monday, July 20, 2009
Wild winds
Wild winds finally
Oh boy we had the boat rocking and rolling. Great practice for us. Not too much and not too little just on the edge. We had lots o wind but still did not make too much way due to the wind direction again. Atleast today we had three points of sail. Beating (as always. No matter where we go the wind is on our nose the hardest point of sail and the slowest. ) then we got to be on a beam reach. (the wind directly on the side. This is fine if you have the right sail configuration but if you have to much sail you have to wrestle with the wheel to keep it straight. But now I know when it is wrestle time it is time to change to the staysail and take down the jib. If that is still too much then it is time to reef or take in the main. Given all those words of self wisdom I'm not sure it is right. Maybe it is better to leave the jib and reef the main? Any sailors out there have an opinion? Email me your response or comment on the blog. I'd love to hear your ideas!) then we got to run with the wind behind which is precarious due to accidentally jibing. It is a comfortable point of sail if one puts on a preventor so the accidental jib does not happen.
There you all have it. A day of sailing and learning. I did not play much with the gps but I am good at finding angles on there now! So when we round a marker I can say quickly head 228 degrees for one mile then head 180 degrees. That will get us to the sandy point bay.
I am tired for a day of physical workout.
Oh hey Deanna Ben has eyebrows. He is so tan it is crazy and his eyebrows are so blonde you can see them. His tan makes his eyes even bluer than blue!
Well signing off at sandy point VA where the winds are 5 knots to keep the bugs away the temp 72 degrees and where Owen prowls the deck at night looking for bugs to catch and eat - chomp. And where God grace enfolds us in His love.
Captain Pam
Someday I will tell you the story of how got to be named captain for this summer trip.
Oh boy we had the boat rocking and rolling. Great practice for us. Not too much and not too little just on the edge. We had lots o wind but still did not make too much way due to the wind direction again. Atleast today we had three points of sail. Beating (as always. No matter where we go the wind is on our nose the hardest point of sail and the slowest. ) then we got to be on a beam reach. (the wind directly on the side. This is fine if you have the right sail configuration but if you have to much sail you have to wrestle with the wheel to keep it straight. But now I know when it is wrestle time it is time to change to the staysail and take down the jib. If that is still too much then it is time to reef or take in the main. Given all those words of self wisdom I'm not sure it is right. Maybe it is better to leave the jib and reef the main? Any sailors out there have an opinion? Email me your response or comment on the blog. I'd love to hear your ideas!) then we got to run with the wind behind which is precarious due to accidentally jibing. It is a comfortable point of sail if one puts on a preventor so the accidental jib does not happen.
There you all have it. A day of sailing and learning. I did not play much with the gps but I am good at finding angles on there now! So when we round a marker I can say quickly head 228 degrees for one mile then head 180 degrees. That will get us to the sandy point bay.
I am tired for a day of physical workout.
Oh hey Deanna Ben has eyebrows. He is so tan it is crazy and his eyebrows are so blonde you can see them. His tan makes his eyes even bluer than blue!
Well signing off at sandy point VA where the winds are 5 knots to keep the bugs away the temp 72 degrees and where Owen prowls the deck at night looking for bugs to catch and eat - chomp. And where God grace enfolds us in His love.
Captain Pam
Someday I will tell you the story of how got to be named captain for this summer trip.
Wild winds
Wild winds finally
Oh boy we had the boat rocking and rolling. Great practice for us. Not too much and not too little just on the edge. We had lots o wind but still did not make too much way due to the wind direction again. Atleast today we had three points of sail. Beating (as always. No matter where we go the wind is on our nose the hardest point of sail and the slowest. ) then we got to be on a beam reach. (the wind directly on the side. This is fine if you have the right sail configuration but if you have to much sail you have to wrestle with the wheel to keep it straight. But now I know when it is wrestle time it is time to change to the staysail and take down the jib. If that is still too much then it is time to reef or take in the main. Given all those words of self wisdom I'm not sure it is right. Maybe it is better to leave the jib and reef the main? Any sailors out there have an opinion? Email me your response or comment on the blog. I'd love to hear your ideas!) then we got to run with the wind behind which is precarious due to accidentally jibing. It is a comfortable point of sail if one puts on a preventor so the accidental jib does not happen.
There you all have it. A day of sailing and learning. I did not play much with the gps but I am good at finding angles on there now! So when we round a marker I can say quickly head 228 degrees for one mile then head 180 degrees. That will get us to the sandy point bay.
I am tired for a day of physical workout.
Oh hey Deanna Ben has eyebrows. He is so tan it is crazy and his eyebrows are so blonde you can see them. His tan makes his eyes even bluer than blue!
Well signing off at sandy point VA where the winds are 5 knots to keep the bugs away the temp 72 degrees and where Owen prowls the deck at night looking for bugs to catch and eat - chomp. And where God grace enfolds us in His love.
Captain Pam
Someday I will tell you the story of how got to be named captain for this summer trip.
Oh boy we had the boat rocking and rolling. Great practice for us. Not too much and not too little just on the edge. We had lots o wind but still did not make too much way due to the wind direction again. Atleast today we had three points of sail. Beating (as always. No matter where we go the wind is on our nose the hardest point of sail and the slowest. ) then we got to be on a beam reach. (the wind directly on the side. This is fine if you have the right sail configuration but if you have to much sail you have to wrestle with the wheel to keep it straight. But now I know when it is wrestle time it is time to change to the staysail and take down the jib. If that is still too much then it is time to reef or take in the main. Given all those words of self wisdom I'm not sure it is right. Maybe it is better to leave the jib and reef the main? Any sailors out there have an opinion? Email me your response or comment on the blog. I'd love to hear your ideas!) then we got to run with the wind behind which is precarious due to accidentally jibing. It is a comfortable point of sail if one puts on a preventor so the accidental jib does not happen.
There you all have it. A day of sailing and learning. I did not play much with the gps but I am good at finding angles on there now! So when we round a marker I can say quickly head 228 degrees for one mile then head 180 degrees. That will get us to the sandy point bay.
I am tired for a day of physical workout.
Oh hey Deanna Ben has eyebrows. He is so tan it is crazy and his eyebrows are so blonde you can see them. His tan makes his eyes even bluer than blue!
Well signing off at sandy point VA where the winds are 5 knots to keep the bugs away the temp 72 degrees and where Owen prowls the deck at night looking for bugs to catch and eat - chomp. And where God grace enfolds us in His love.
Captain Pam
Someday I will tell you the story of how got to be named captain for this summer trip.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
GSP day! no time like the present to learn more.
Today we got up late. 9pm or so. It is Sunday. The wind had not picked up yet so why get going? We read Acts 25 this morning. Then set sail. We went past 2 regattas! (sailing races) but then the wind died down and they stood still like us.
We went about 24 miles it took allll day and then some motoring. The Chesapeake is known for no winds after the fourth of July. So everyday we have wind the better.
On this mild day I was ready to attack the GPS! It seems simple. I did learn how to make a way point and a track. I even got the track to beep as we pasted the way points. (the first time it beeped my heart skipped a beat of panic cuz it is the same beep as the anchor warning that signals trouble. Couldn't they pick a happy beep or a chime that goes ta-da! Or voice on a car gps that says in a british accent, "congratulations youve made it to your first way point!) The only thing is I don't know what I did to start the track working. I'm sure I'll sleep on it. But now I can give a heading! I think I'm ready for an over night sail. Don't tell Ben that yet.
Here is something stupid I still do and it drives me crazy. We have our dinghy trailng behind us on a long tether line BUT when you anchor you have to back up. So before you back up you want to pull in the dnghy. So many times I'm backing up to set the anchor and I look back and there is the dinghy. I quick put it in neutral and pray I did not wrap the line around the prop. So today we are anchoring. I forget AGAIN (how many times do I need to forget!!!) I put it in reverse and it feels funny. Oh no! This would be my lesson. Ben graciously dove thru jellies to check (he did not get stung) but there was mercy for me it was only stuck on the keel. Phew! I hope that was enough to pound it in my head!
Today was also a good day In that I felt like the boat is getting smaller. Before it seemed big and ominous. Now it seems do-able. Of course I have not had to dock it lately.
Oh today I fished most of the day. Me, I like to do a few things at once, learn gps, fish a little, and sail a little. Ben was focused on the cape horn. Cape horn is one of the two auto pilots we have. It uses no electricity it is all pulleys and ropes. One cord feel off it's bungie. Ben found the owners manual and put it back on. Then the dinghy bumped the fin that goes in the water and it came off its center and he fixed that too. For those of you all that know Ben he is doing excellent and at figuring things out. I didn't even jump in nor did he ask. I just stayed focus on gps. Tomorrow I shall set a course and see if I can do it all day as if it was night time.
Oh YES everday It is Fun and very educational all at the same time. Of course we miss you all dearly. I think about work most everyday as wondering how it is going. (i just dont dwell on the thoughts)
Phil 1:3
Good night
Pam
We went about 24 miles it took allll day and then some motoring. The Chesapeake is known for no winds after the fourth of July. So everyday we have wind the better.
On this mild day I was ready to attack the GPS! It seems simple. I did learn how to make a way point and a track. I even got the track to beep as we pasted the way points. (the first time it beeped my heart skipped a beat of panic cuz it is the same beep as the anchor warning that signals trouble. Couldn't they pick a happy beep or a chime that goes ta-da! Or voice on a car gps that says in a british accent, "congratulations youve made it to your first way point!) The only thing is I don't know what I did to start the track working. I'm sure I'll sleep on it. But now I can give a heading! I think I'm ready for an over night sail. Don't tell Ben that yet.
Here is something stupid I still do and it drives me crazy. We have our dinghy trailng behind us on a long tether line BUT when you anchor you have to back up. So before you back up you want to pull in the dnghy. So many times I'm backing up to set the anchor and I look back and there is the dinghy. I quick put it in neutral and pray I did not wrap the line around the prop. So today we are anchoring. I forget AGAIN (how many times do I need to forget!!!) I put it in reverse and it feels funny. Oh no! This would be my lesson. Ben graciously dove thru jellies to check (he did not get stung) but there was mercy for me it was only stuck on the keel. Phew! I hope that was enough to pound it in my head!
Today was also a good day In that I felt like the boat is getting smaller. Before it seemed big and ominous. Now it seems do-able. Of course I have not had to dock it lately.
Oh today I fished most of the day. Me, I like to do a few things at once, learn gps, fish a little, and sail a little. Ben was focused on the cape horn. Cape horn is one of the two auto pilots we have. It uses no electricity it is all pulleys and ropes. One cord feel off it's bungie. Ben found the owners manual and put it back on. Then the dinghy bumped the fin that goes in the water and it came off its center and he fixed that too. For those of you all that know Ben he is doing excellent and at figuring things out. I didn't even jump in nor did he ask. I just stayed focus on gps. Tomorrow I shall set a course and see if I can do it all day as if it was night time.
Oh YES everday It is Fun and very educational all at the same time. Of course we miss you all dearly. I think about work most everyday as wondering how it is going. (i just dont dwell on the thoughts)
Phil 1:3
Good night
Pam
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Yawn. Read Bens tonight
I'm not feelin the blogspot tonight.
Let's see
Sailed
Sunny and 83 degrees
Winds 5-10knots
Owen is looking so grown up.
The anchor was muddy but I joyfully helped scrub.
Ate sardines and crackers for lunch
Wasabi peas, cashews, raisins for supper
Motored into town on jimini (dinghy)
Ate soft serve icecream for snack
It is dark. Cloudy. Light breeze with few misquitos. We are on the deck blogging
Last nights cribage, Ben won but I muggins him three points!
Flight control Pam 119, Ben 123
Good enough for tonight. Maybe bens is more informative.
Prayers to you all Pam
Let's see
Sailed
Sunny and 83 degrees
Winds 5-10knots
Owen is looking so grown up.
The anchor was muddy but I joyfully helped scrub.
Ate sardines and crackers for lunch
Wasabi peas, cashews, raisins for supper
Motored into town on jimini (dinghy)
Ate soft serve icecream for snack
It is dark. Cloudy. Light breeze with few misquitos. We are on the deck blogging
Last nights cribage, Ben won but I muggins him three points!
Flight control Pam 119, Ben 123
Good enough for tonight. Maybe bens is more informative.
Prayers to you all Pam
Friday, July 17, 2009
Jellies win! Pam uses BBQ sauce! Embarrassing too!
This morning. There was supposed to be a storm. No luck. Just a calm. Very calm too calm it was hard to sleep without the rocking. Wow I'm acclamating just fine to sailing life. So we lazily got up. Made a rope ladder cuz our ladder is too hard for me to get open. So I thought just make a rope ladder. Cool Robinson cruiso here I come. The ladder looks way cool but it is way hard to climb up on due to the boats angle. It would be like rock climbng up a rock that sticks out and you have to some how get up the protruding rock. Anyway I hope that made sense. Back up ... Two days ago in annapolis was the first day I took a shower in over two weeks but don't worry I take little baths in the bay water if no jellies. Back to the morning. We threw the rope over the side. I did not see a jelly I let myself down. here is the embarrassing part but important to the story. I was floating and I put my hand in my pants to (you know wash a bit down there) swish swish quickly then I felt like little sting down "there". Then I felt a jelly on my thigh. You guest it I just rubbed a jelly on my you-know-what!!! If Deanna is reading this she knows the feeling; it is like using dr. Broners soap down there. Then I tried to get up the rope but did not have the strength to pull myself up quickly. So now I am hanging there and Ben is being his helpful self and saying "try putting your hand here..." as if to instruct me how to climb out ... instead of just reaching in and pulling me out quickly! Afterwards I asked him
why didn't you help me quicker. He said he did what he thought would be fastest and I did not ask him to pull me out. So then I took off my swim bottoms to find stringie things of the jelly in there. Now my private part the inner thigh got stung. I put BBQ sauce on it. Close enough to meat tenderizer it had vinager in it. It helped. It was not as bad as I thought Not even bad enough to cry about or even come close to crying. I thought it was going to sting a long time and leave big red marks. Not just a few red lines. I'm not sure if that helped my jellyaphobia or hurt. Cuz now I think that was not too bad but then again it was bad enough to not want to do it again! There you have the whole stingin story. Now don't go spreading this one around it is silly enough.
Finally a lay around day. I played the mandolin finally. Caught up on email. Read more of bruchco. An excellent book. We ate can of baked beans and hotdogs. The hotdogs were still good after one week of no refrigeration. I'm still alive and no stomach ache. I caught up on phone calls. I redid the rope ladder and got right back up on the horse and tried it again. This time I figured out how to climb up better a few more times and I'll be good. Today I am thankful for calm days. Lazy day. Friends and family.
Peace Pam
why didn't you help me quicker. He said he did what he thought would be fastest and I did not ask him to pull me out. So then I took off my swim bottoms to find stringie things of the jelly in there. Now my private part the inner thigh got stung. I put BBQ sauce on it. Close enough to meat tenderizer it had vinager in it. It helped. It was not as bad as I thought Not even bad enough to cry about or even come close to crying. I thought it was going to sting a long time and leave big red marks. Not just a few red lines. I'm not sure if that helped my jellyaphobia or hurt. Cuz now I think that was not too bad but then again it was bad enough to not want to do it again! There you have the whole stingin story. Now don't go spreading this one around it is silly enough.
Finally a lay around day. I played the mandolin finally. Caught up on email. Read more of bruchco. An excellent book. We ate can of baked beans and hotdogs. The hotdogs were still good after one week of no refrigeration. I'm still alive and no stomach ache. I caught up on phone calls. I redid the rope ladder and got right back up on the horse and tried it again. This time I figured out how to climb up better a few more times and I'll be good. Today I am thankful for calm days. Lazy day. Friends and family.
Peace Pam
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Back in the saddle - sailing again! More learning too
5-10knot winds is pam's happy sailing day
We are still sailing it is 7:45pm the sun is going down and we are yet learning another part of sailing. At dusk getting ready for sailing at night. I often am pushed to try new stuff. Like I said I am happy sailing a craft until I know it well then move on. Ben likes to move on quickly. Well quicker than me. So here we are sailing to a bay at dusk. Of course the wind is dieing down. I thought we would be there by now but nope. I'll keep you informed as to the details once they occur. First let me tell you of our day.
Last night the waters were so rough there was no way I could sleep through it. Ben on the other hand is an amazing sleeper. Wow. I'm jealous. It was so loud! Everything squeeked, rattled, moaned, banged, clanged, twittered, etc. Owen was up too. I checked the anchor watch a few times cuz our scope was only one to six ratio. I don't know why Ben likes it at one hundred feet of chain ? We were at 16 feet. You all do the math. 16x7. Plus you can add four feet for the water line to the bow. If you did that math it would be 20x7. So I was nervous. I wonder if I wil see Ben nervous. ?
Then the navy acedmy started working out at 6:15. Needless to say. I'm a bit tired. So I thought I would start the blog before I fall asleep. But first we need to get close to the night's refuge.
We got fuel for the first time. It went well. We didn't need that much. Considering one tank is 35 gallons port and 40gallons on starbaord. I did successfully dock! It felt good and it even went the way I thought it should go. Thank darell for teaching me in theory and talking me through it!!! It worked great!!
Today was a beautiful sail. Mild winds. Too mild at times but just right other times. We saw a flock of birds fishing right infront of us. It was so fun to watch them fly up then come crashing down and splashing in the water over and over again just twenty feet from the boat. We ate leftover lasgna from yesterdays yummy restaurant dinner. Oh we bought ice and tonight I made coffee icees. Yummy yumm yum!!! Tomorrow ice willl be gone for a few days again. We plan to sail to Yorktown and see becca and Jason. We made 30 miles today that is good for always having the wind on our nose and the wind dieing down. Funny today was supposed to be 20-25 winds. The fuel guy even reminded me it was going to be tooo windy. We were ready with the reef lines but did not need them at all!
Ok how did anchoring at dusk go!? Perfect. Ben steered this time I dropped the anchor and we could still see the markers. (I dropped 100 feet of chain so I feel better tonight sleeping. I just figured out why he does not drop out more than needed cuz cleanng the anchor is hard hard to do. When you pull up anchor the chain is covered in mud and I mean thick mud!!! Then you have to scrub scrub scrubby to get it clean. That is why. We'll tomorrow I will help with the chain but not wretch my back cuz finally today is the first day my back doesn't hurt from pulling up anchor last time I did it. It was not the pulling that did it. It was the cleaning of the chain cuz you have to get water by growing a bucket attached to a rope over board then hoist up the water that is too big of a bucket for me to lift so many times. Tomorrow I will get in the water scrub the chain the just hoist up the anchor. In theory it should work and if it is a jelly free zone. We shall see. )
I beat! Good night all
Oh Owen live to sit on the very end of the bow sprit ( the longggg pointy thing out the front) tonight he was leaning way over. That boy is going to fall in someday?
Zzzzz
Oh everyday I mention our creator and I have not yet. Today was a great day for prayer so many of you have been well prayed for. Blessngs to my friends and family and whoever else reads this.
We are still sailing it is 7:45pm the sun is going down and we are yet learning another part of sailing. At dusk getting ready for sailing at night. I often am pushed to try new stuff. Like I said I am happy sailing a craft until I know it well then move on. Ben likes to move on quickly. Well quicker than me. So here we are sailing to a bay at dusk. Of course the wind is dieing down. I thought we would be there by now but nope. I'll keep you informed as to the details once they occur. First let me tell you of our day.
Last night the waters were so rough there was no way I could sleep through it. Ben on the other hand is an amazing sleeper. Wow. I'm jealous. It was so loud! Everything squeeked, rattled, moaned, banged, clanged, twittered, etc. Owen was up too. I checked the anchor watch a few times cuz our scope was only one to six ratio. I don't know why Ben likes it at one hundred feet of chain ? We were at 16 feet. You all do the math. 16x7. Plus you can add four feet for the water line to the bow. If you did that math it would be 20x7. So I was nervous. I wonder if I wil see Ben nervous. ?
Then the navy acedmy started working out at 6:15. Needless to say. I'm a bit tired. So I thought I would start the blog before I fall asleep. But first we need to get close to the night's refuge.
We got fuel for the first time. It went well. We didn't need that much. Considering one tank is 35 gallons port and 40gallons on starbaord. I did successfully dock! It felt good and it even went the way I thought it should go. Thank darell for teaching me in theory and talking me through it!!! It worked great!!
Today was a beautiful sail. Mild winds. Too mild at times but just right other times. We saw a flock of birds fishing right infront of us. It was so fun to watch them fly up then come crashing down and splashing in the water over and over again just twenty feet from the boat. We ate leftover lasgna from yesterdays yummy restaurant dinner. Oh we bought ice and tonight I made coffee icees. Yummy yumm yum!!! Tomorrow ice willl be gone for a few days again. We plan to sail to Yorktown and see becca and Jason. We made 30 miles today that is good for always having the wind on our nose and the wind dieing down. Funny today was supposed to be 20-25 winds. The fuel guy even reminded me it was going to be tooo windy. We were ready with the reef lines but did not need them at all!
Ok how did anchoring at dusk go!? Perfect. Ben steered this time I dropped the anchor and we could still see the markers. (I dropped 100 feet of chain so I feel better tonight sleeping. I just figured out why he does not drop out more than needed cuz cleanng the anchor is hard hard to do. When you pull up anchor the chain is covered in mud and I mean thick mud!!! Then you have to scrub scrub scrubby to get it clean. That is why. We'll tomorrow I will help with the chain but not wretch my back cuz finally today is the first day my back doesn't hurt from pulling up anchor last time I did it. It was not the pulling that did it. It was the cleaning of the chain cuz you have to get water by growing a bucket attached to a rope over board then hoist up the water that is too big of a bucket for me to lift so many times. Tomorrow I will get in the water scrub the chain the just hoist up the anchor. In theory it should work and if it is a jelly free zone. We shall see. )
I beat! Good night all
Oh Owen live to sit on the very end of the bow sprit ( the longggg pointy thing out the front) tonight he was leaning way over. That boy is going to fall in someday?
Zzzzz
Oh everyday I mention our creator and I have not yet. Today was a great day for prayer so many of you have been well prayed for. Blessngs to my friends and family and whoever else reads this.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Peace Love and kum-by-ya
Flight control: Pam @ 97, Ben @ 111.
Not that any of you care. He is beating my butt.
Today light winds. God is in control of the day and wind. So we stayed here one more day. The winds are picking up and tomorrow should be a trial in reefing. Tonigt we shall have the anchor watch on as it is 15 knot winds right now.
We went to the navy academy and took the tour. Amazing. Wow. Just like this whole trip has been a learning curve a huge learning curve of when the student is ready the teacher appears. Like when I was home I wanted to learn the baramoter but did not cuz it was book stuff now I am an eagar student to learn about diesel engines, batteries, electronic, electricity, gps, ( I still have more to do with the gps. Tomorrow I will read the manual to learn how to set way points) anchor watching, solar power, Samson post hitching know, snubber line know, cap horn auto pilot, four stroke motors ( wow I am amazing myself already with all the learning going on here)! But none of this I learned before even though I have big thick books I am a visual and hands on learner. So my point is that I'm getting to,... Is we went to the navy academy. We see all the stuff they do. I had no idea. Actually part of me thinks the navy would be like summer camp or teen missions but for four years. Ok ok my point is I send a thank you out to all those military people (ie my sister and her hubby Ed and kimmer) and all the many others. Thanks for doing all of that. I don't understand it but I recognize it. Student I am. Ready to listen to the teachers in my life. Sometimes it takes us a while to get there. I'm glad I have the personality and love to want to learn and be taught by all those around me. And a big thanks to my staff back home that teach me many things. They are all very smart and I know it and recognize their work and love for the work we do at ASLIS!!! I hope I say it enough to you all! Thanks from my heart for all you do and who you are. Oh and my many friends that teach me countless lessons about life, love and God. Amen sista's and bros! Sleep well. You are all blessed in my heart. And have I kept you here long enough. And thanks to the homeless and mentally challenged for from them I hear their hearts and know they too can and do teach me many of the lessons of contenment and non judgementalness. Ok ok I hope I did not forget anyone. And my dad who may not have known while I was growing up but he played a huge role in the forming of my adventureous mind and kind heart. And mom for having fun and laughing at anything and everything. Now have I left anyone out? Yes all the animals in my life!! Muss you kiko and Xander!
Blessings over and out Pam
oh I didn't forget Deanna n Jase who have taught me more than I ever imagined! Deep in my heart they are happily loved. Ok and all the kids Annie Paul and neighbor boys and their friends.
Oh and Ben won the backgammon series. Now I can go to bed.
Not that any of you care. He is beating my butt.
Today light winds. God is in control of the day and wind. So we stayed here one more day. The winds are picking up and tomorrow should be a trial in reefing. Tonigt we shall have the anchor watch on as it is 15 knot winds right now.
We went to the navy academy and took the tour. Amazing. Wow. Just like this whole trip has been a learning curve a huge learning curve of when the student is ready the teacher appears. Like when I was home I wanted to learn the baramoter but did not cuz it was book stuff now I am an eagar student to learn about diesel engines, batteries, electronic, electricity, gps, ( I still have more to do with the gps. Tomorrow I will read the manual to learn how to set way points) anchor watching, solar power, Samson post hitching know, snubber line know, cap horn auto pilot, four stroke motors ( wow I am amazing myself already with all the learning going on here)! But none of this I learned before even though I have big thick books I am a visual and hands on learner. So my point is that I'm getting to,... Is we went to the navy academy. We see all the stuff they do. I had no idea. Actually part of me thinks the navy would be like summer camp or teen missions but for four years. Ok ok my point is I send a thank you out to all those military people (ie my sister and her hubby Ed and kimmer) and all the many others. Thanks for doing all of that. I don't understand it but I recognize it. Student I am. Ready to listen to the teachers in my life. Sometimes it takes us a while to get there. I'm glad I have the personality and love to want to learn and be taught by all those around me. And a big thanks to my staff back home that teach me many things. They are all very smart and I know it and recognize their work and love for the work we do at ASLIS!!! I hope I say it enough to you all! Thanks from my heart for all you do and who you are. Oh and my many friends that teach me countless lessons about life, love and God. Amen sista's and bros! Sleep well. You are all blessed in my heart. And have I kept you here long enough. And thanks to the homeless and mentally challenged for from them I hear their hearts and know they too can and do teach me many of the lessons of contenment and non judgementalness. Ok ok I hope I did not forget anyone. And my dad who may not have known while I was growing up but he played a huge role in the forming of my adventureous mind and kind heart. And mom for having fun and laughing at anything and everything. Now have I left anyone out? Yes all the animals in my life!! Muss you kiko and Xander!
Blessings over and out Pam
oh I didn't forget Deanna n Jase who have taught me more than I ever imagined! Deep in my heart they are happily loved. Ok and all the kids Annie Paul and neighbor boys and their friends.
Oh and Ben won the backgammon series. Now I can go to bed.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Got the itch to sail again
Got the itch
We have been in the same place since Sunday. It is time to set sail again. Torrow 10-15 ESE winds. Good for me. Plus I would like to take a bay-shower. It is funny to wash your hair in a harbour full of people and boats. Although tonight we were invited to a boat party with about 7 people plus us. Very nice one od theguys there was a harbour master. He gave us some shower tokens to the city dock. Nice.
Today we walked all over town. To the fire dept to recycle our old fire extinguishers. Then 2miles to west marine to get a fuel thingie for the dinghy so we won't have to pour gas into the motor. Now it will go direct to the tank! A big deal. No more spilling gas in the bay etc.
We woke up to the navy acedmy so we decided to visit there. It was an amazing place built in 1845! Way cool. We watched the night roll call and formation. Impressive.
Then to the boat party then home to Owen. It is a cool night. The stars are out. I like living outside. I like the water. Everyday living on the water grows more on me.
Ok I am tired again. Ready to wake up at 6:15 with the navy guys, "yes sir!"
Later gater
Annapolis is a great town.
Oh hey I forgot about another nice person we met at west Marine. Giff his name. He drove us back as we were not sure which part we needed. He and his wife has circumnavigated the world in a sailboat they just got back after two years. They are saving their money again to do it as soon as they can. He had great stories. Oh and we met Glenn the none homeless but homeless looking guy. We send our blessings.
Ok now bed.
Sweet dreams
Pam
We have been in the same place since Sunday. It is time to set sail again. Torrow 10-15 ESE winds. Good for me. Plus I would like to take a bay-shower. It is funny to wash your hair in a harbour full of people and boats. Although tonight we were invited to a boat party with about 7 people plus us. Very nice one od theguys there was a harbour master. He gave us some shower tokens to the city dock. Nice.
Today we walked all over town. To the fire dept to recycle our old fire extinguishers. Then 2miles to west marine to get a fuel thingie for the dinghy so we won't have to pour gas into the motor. Now it will go direct to the tank! A big deal. No more spilling gas in the bay etc.
We woke up to the navy acedmy so we decided to visit there. It was an amazing place built in 1845! Way cool. We watched the night roll call and formation. Impressive.
Then to the boat party then home to Owen. It is a cool night. The stars are out. I like living outside. I like the water. Everyday living on the water grows more on me.
Ok I am tired again. Ready to wake up at 6:15 with the navy guys, "yes sir!"
Later gater
Annapolis is a great town.
Oh hey I forgot about another nice person we met at west Marine. Giff his name. He drove us back as we were not sure which part we needed. He and his wife has circumnavigated the world in a sailboat they just got back after two years. They are saving their money again to do it as soon as they can. He had great stories. Oh and we met Glenn the none homeless but homeless looking guy. We send our blessings.
Ok now bed.
Sweet dreams
Pam
Monday, July 13, 2009
City if annapolis
Revalry at 6:15am at the navy base. Yes they are serious about their calestenaics (jodies, exercises). Makes me want to join them. Not this morning.
Today is a day of wifi. Yup notice pictures finally! I got caught up with some work. We met the nice lady from fawcetts, Bess and her hubby bill. Went to fawcetts. Oh we got our pooper pumped out. Get this... It only cost five bucks! Amazing! They come to you in a pump out boat! Weird everything is expensive and here the total charge for curbside service is five dollars. It was a new experience. Ben dried out more books the ones that got soaked in the heeling. He installed three fire exstingishers ! Yup that is handy-Ben now that he has his leatherman he is a new guy. I washed the soul again (the wood floor is the soul). Ate tuna fish. Ya know the tip about sourdough bread. Welp after three weeks it molded the last few pieces. Darn. It was way better than regular bread.
We ended the day with ice cream after we met Glenn a homeless looking guy. He had a home but definitly looked the part completebwith mental challenges yet smart like he knew mpls was in MN he knew it was in a different time zone. He carried on a conversation and he brought up Jesus and the end of the world. He was trying to understand it all. Interesting what God leads us to. Since Ben works with special Ed he is well equiped with the gift of communicating Jesus' love to others such as I can but he is way better. Glenn was his name you may pray that he finds Jesus in a real way. Actually Jesus is in there he just is not sure.
A nice evening. I better get to bed since the navy will wake me up. Zzz
I hope you all liked the pictures. I'm sure Ben will do more tomorrow. Miss you all
Pam
Today is a day of wifi. Yup notice pictures finally! I got caught up with some work. We met the nice lady from fawcetts, Bess and her hubby bill. Went to fawcetts. Oh we got our pooper pumped out. Get this... It only cost five bucks! Amazing! They come to you in a pump out boat! Weird everything is expensive and here the total charge for curbside service is five dollars. It was a new experience. Ben dried out more books the ones that got soaked in the heeling. He installed three fire exstingishers ! Yup that is handy-Ben now that he has his leatherman he is a new guy. I washed the soul again (the wood floor is the soul). Ate tuna fish. Ya know the tip about sourdough bread. Welp after three weeks it molded the last few pieces. Darn. It was way better than regular bread.
We ended the day with ice cream after we met Glenn a homeless looking guy. He had a home but definitly looked the part completebwith mental challenges yet smart like he knew mpls was in MN he knew it was in a different time zone. He carried on a conversation and he brought up Jesus and the end of the world. He was trying to understand it all. Interesting what God leads us to. Since Ben works with special Ed he is well equiped with the gift of communicating Jesus' love to others such as I can but he is way better. Glenn was his name you may pray that he finds Jesus in a real way. Actually Jesus is in there he just is not sure.
A nice evening. I better get to bed since the navy will wake me up. Zzz
I hope you all liked the pictures. I'm sure Ben will do more tomorrow. Miss you all
Pam
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