Our adventure on the M/V Ruby Slipper was one that entailed doing many things for the first time. It would have been too easy “doing the ICW” the same old way. So we made a concerted effort to get out of our comfort zone & the last week really epitom…
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Short Day Helped by Current
We waited out another cold front at Southport’s Harbor Village Marina, NC for two nights. One night we were fortunate to enjoy dinner at the home of Rick & Jeanne Brown, friends from Annapolis who have since moved to St. James Plantation, a very, very…
Flooring it.
Here’s the results of another fairly exhausted Saturday at Ms Ann. I’ve been meaning to put this little raised floor in the forward accommodation down for, like, ages. It’s made from leftovers of the fat pine T&G that went into the bedroom as…
Chugging Home on Steriods!
We’ve been chugging home – Steriod Style! After departing Partick AFB’s Manatee Cove Marina at the end of March we did “touch & go’s” at Rockhouse Creek (one of our ICW favorite anchorages), St. Augustine, Fernandina Beach, Georgia (1 brief leg only),…
Half-a-job Seb.
Oughta make my Mark smile, seeing as that’s what he was so fond of calling me during the cabin construction, and proof that sometimes I definitely do do things by halves, even if it’s only by necessity.So I just worked a six and a half day week, fi…
Proto-furniture.
This was just going to be a picture post, but then I seem to have got carried away. Although the items portrayed in the photos don’t look much they were more or less the sum total of efforts of last weekend, and Sam and Jamie were very helpful in hel…
Chillin' Out Air Force Style
Arrived yesterday for a few days. Ruby Slipper is tied up dockside next to a really cool Tiki Bar. Wonderful meeting up with more military retirees & active duty types at this fabulous “find” of a marina. No big boats here – sail boats with tall masts…
Prometheus inserted it.
This one’s for my dad really, as you may remember he donated us a piece of family history in the shape of a tortoise wood stove some time ago… I just got back from another push-it weekend at the boat, during which we had a successful test firing of…
What we're reading
Linda — Just finished Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire. A terrific read about a young upper class boy in Cuba (pre- & post revolution). Also, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, eye-opening tale of African-American maids & the white families they …
The other Other Lady.
After nearly two years of weekly struggle for meaningful work, and of course any money to go with it, I seem to have finally landed the right way up.I’m proud to say that I now have what I consider to be the dream job I have been hoping for for a lon…
