all clean and ready for guests

Before I add to what we have done.  I've had a few questions about my toe.  Thanks for asking.  Well it was just an ingrown toe nail that made my big toe all red and pussy underneath... I scraped under the toe nail on the side, then I lanced it.  I was happy to have ice.  the first one hurt until I used ice! Maybe I should get those "cold-packets" for emergencies at times when we don't have ice. It was so worth the poke to get that out!!! Ahhhhh

After our friends left we have 2 days to get this list done:

Change Oil in the Engine… now you may think that is a simple task? But it’s not.  Ben had to walk to 3 marine stores to find an oil filter that we thought we had on board.  Both him and I could have sworn it was on board but they were fuel filters – which we have 2 fuel filters and one looks like an oil filter.  Tricky! He did an excellent job.  It is a tiny working space you need to contort your body into, plus oil is never clean, it spills and runs and is just plain messy.

Sew the top of the main.  Now that should have been easy too! it is only One inch long and maybe 20 stitches that needed to be repaired.  But I had to be hoisted up on the swing… The material and thread is so hard to get through that it takes a pliers and all of pam’s strength to poke it thru and a pliers to pull it out on the other side. Meanwhile your butt is so sore from that flat uncomfortable swing-chair.  Oh and when you poke your needle in – the boat sways with the waves and you miss.  It’s done and I’m proud.  Oh and while up there you forget things that I had to have Ben Run and get for me.

Under the Navigation station is all our charts and we have accumulated many charts! We also have all of our manuals, receipts, etc for all our equipment on board. It is a disorganized mess.  So that is all gone through. We had old files of equipment we had to go through and then file the new ones.

Ben filled up all the water tanks, He washed down the deck of the salt. Our boat looks like someone came and took a salt shaker and salted the boat with coarse salt.  Not good for the varnish at all but then again we are hoping that this weather will strip some of our varnish off so when we revarnish we don’t have to sand as much.

I did laundry for our guests and for us, but mostly for our guest.  Ya-know clean sheets are probably a good idea.

I had some accounting and wifi to do.  We had a group staff meeting. That was a great meeting.  We are kicking butt at work.  Or I should say my staff is kicking butt at work and I am cheering them on. Go-team-go!  I am so proud of each one at work.  They all contribute so much to work that it doesn’t become work but one happy family.  Well as happy as families go.  Probably better than some families, I’m sure. Thanks everyone, I appreciate each one of you: Anne, Becca, Damon, Erin, Jacquie, Jason, Katie, and Melissa. (that was alphabetical so as to not upset anyone.  Ha ha ha)

I read through all my taxes and that is a lot to read through.

Now this morning I sit at the dock in the cockpit We are going to clean up the mess.  It is easy to get a mess cuz everything is so small.  On the other hand it is all easy to pick up cuz everything has a place cuz if it does not have a place then it can’t come.  Everything is battened down, lashed to the deck, tucked in a locker, secured by other means… but all-in-all it has to fit somewhere.

           

So the poop pumper… Ben is quite the McGyver with the pooper… he has gone all over looking for bits and pieces to make it work and tada… we think it works!  Good thing he has a brown shirt – and for those of you visiting you will get to wear that brown shirt as you take a turn once a week to poop out the crap. Ha ha ha

Now we are waiting for Connie, her son Josh, and his daughter Victoria!

I will try to send short iphone updates if I can.

Smile

Pam