Sunday, April 25, 2010
At the home front
Welp, i'm here in MN, nothing exciting to report. No bottom painting here. I bet Ben will leave me some fun of painting for when I get out there. (although I hope not) Here I have been cleaning and organizing the house. Also trying to figure out how to telecommute to work. I have a new laptop with video so the office and I can ichat or skype. I have a few big work projects going on not to mention quarterly taxes and such... blah blah blah... I will be helping Deanna pack her place and move back home. Yup, they come back. She will be looking for a job while staying here free during the summer. i'm going to go now and make a list of all the things I want to get done before I leave for the boat. Oh Kiko (our house cat) misses Ben. She sleeps in his closet for comfort. welp I better get writing my list... it will be a long one. It's good to connect with you all again. Captain Pam on dry land.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
February and 7 degrees
Sitting at dunn bros coffee shop in front of a fireplace dreaming of the seas. planning my office work so I can be more efficent while sailing. here's to a good 2010!
keep smiling
Pam
keep smiling
Pam
Monday, August 24, 2009
I need a "group"
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
“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
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
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