Boat Maintenance
Cruising with a Dog
Sum It Up Sunday: Another Week in Review
Sunday, February 16, 2014TheCambrians
We’ve been back on the boat for three weeks now
with little to show for it, but these things take time . . . especially for
us.
We have, however, been getting our ducks in a row
for the jobs we hope to tackle next week: installing a new battery bank (house
and starter) and re-adhering our sagging headliner (a job neither of us is too
keen to begin).
The batteries have been ordered and should arrive
on Thursday. And we have all the lights
for the Mosaic/headliner project. We
made an attempt to start working on it yesterday, but that involved more
standing around, head scratching and running around to find the right tools for
the job than any actual work. In fact,
the headliner looks exactly the same as it did before we started. But David assures me it was a productive day
and that he has a plan.
David’s
been working diligently on a new blog about 12 volt refrigeration for the
website. Well, a multi-part article is a
more accurate description – it currently comes in at 8,000 words. He also managed to hit a post in the parking
lot while backing up, but I don’t think he considers that to be a
“highlight”: The bumper’s twisted and
the bed of the truck is buckled on the passenger side. It’s the fifth time in six years that the
truck’s suffered damage and we think it’s time to consider selling it . . . after
it’s fixed.
For me it’s been the usual: laundry, groceries,
cooking, cleaning, dog walking. With a
bit of fun thrown in: trips to the beach, hikes with Sally in the park,
knitting, writing, Facebooking (is that a word?), watching David agonize
over his blog and, of course, watching the Wichita State University (my alma
mater) men’s basketball team play online as I cheer them on.
Sally’s doing a little bit better each day. She’s starting to get a little spring back in
her step and some of her personality quirks are showing themselves again, which
has been amazing to see. Part of the
success, surely, has to do with a supplement called Senilife that we added to her daily diet a couple of weeks ago. And while it seems to have helped with
alertness and appetite, Sally still roams the boat a few nights a week so it’s
not ticking all the boxes. Not yet
anyway. Keeping her engaged and
stimulated in any way that we can think of seems to do the most good. We still have a way to go, but life’s a lot
more manageable now . . . for all of us.
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| One of the benefits of Kingston is that we're closer to Point No Point Lighthouse and beach. |
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| Sally exploring a driftwood hut on the beach. |
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