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We’re presently living on a boat in Georgia’s low country.  One thing we love about it is the the gorgeous sunsets.  We’re going to miss these when we move off the boat and back to upstate New York.And then a few minutes later…In Gertie the…

This is a cross post from my other blog, Bleecker Mountain Life.I’ve been calculating our planned home’s energy needs.  What I’ve come up with is a need for 50 245 watt solar panels.  That’s a lot of panels, and a lot of real estate.  I …

I just finished reading a great book by Bill Bryson called A Walk in the Woods.  It was recommended by an old (very old) friend and fellow blogger Bob whose blog is one of only two non-boating blogs I follow – Rensselaer Plateau Life. While recove…

It might be kind of cliche’ to say that one should live life on one’s own terms, but how many of us actually get to do it?  Not too many.  We buy houses and have mortgages, and all of a sudden we’re bound to a work-aday life.  We no long…

With the Holidays upon us, I would like to share a personal experience with you about drinking and driving. As you may know, some of us have been known to have brushes with the authorities from time to time on the way home after a “social session” out …

I lived most of my life in upstate New York and enjoyed many white Christmases there. I now live on a boat in Georgia. It’s forecast to be in the 70s on Christmas day. There is nothing white nor traditional about Christmas for me here.One holiday tradi…

I’ve written often about our pets.  Ruby and Chevy the pit bulls, Olivia the German Shorthair Pointer, and Gertie the cat.  We’ve had other pets aboard as well.Pam had Smudge for something like 22 years.  She passed away just a few month…

Pam and I are originally from upstate New York.  We moved to Connecticut in 2008, and left there and started wandering south on Drift Away in 2011.  In early 2012, we signed up with St. Brendan’s Isle mail forwarding service, which I highly r…

Yes, it did indeed.  The end of the world came yesterday, December 21st 2012.  A world filled with  problems, and stress, and bad news.  Yesterday’s world.Today is the first day of your new world, the first day of the rest of your l…

Many of you have been asking after Gertie, the last remaining vestige of the feline persuasion on Drift Away.   She’d been going steadily downhill for quite some time.  She had difficulty breathing, struggling for each breath she took, her si…