For what are considered late winter months where the average temperature is supposed to hover around 50°F, it’s been cold, wet and miserable most of February.  For the better part of the week, foul-weather gear has been hanging in every available space in a vain attempt to dry out.  The ports have been dripping wet with condensation, along with our wardrobe lockers.  The heater’s been running 24/7.  In...

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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...

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Ice surrounded the boat all day Thursday and into Friday morning. Hardly a thing. We’ve been back in Washington for two weeks now, but the focus of our lives remains the same as it was in Kansas:  Sally the Dog.  We did, however, make some time for the boat as well.  It’s been an extremely cold week here in Western Washington.  Bone chilling, in fact.  We’ve had ice...

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Because Sally hasn’t been well and is clearly in the final stage of her life (which could last a couple of months or a couple of years), we’ve spent a lot of time thinking about our lives together and I couldn’t help but remember this blog from our trip up the West Coast of the US back in 2008.  She was 11 at the time and I wasn’t...

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Sally walking along West Beach, Calvert Island. Having a dog aboard can be challenging.  Having a 17 year-old dog, even more so.  And this has been our most challenging season. It started back in August while we were cruising the West Coast of Vancouver Island.  Sally got really sick one night and we weren’t able to put her back on regular dog food without a similar effect.  She...

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One of the last things you should do after starting a blog is change servers midstream, especially after five years.  But it’s time for us to leave Webs and you can chalk it up to frozen websites, downed servers and (most of all) limited plug-ins and widgets that add all the bells and whistles that are commonly found in blogs today.  After researching our options, we decided to...

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