THE KAOS CONTINUES

We have been given a very short possession date on the sale of our Condo, so we are scrambling.  We received the offer on August 12th, with a request for August 30th possession.  They were meeting our price so we didn't want to turn it down, so we are busy, busy, busy.  

(No time for pictures.)

We were in town all last week packing.  My Internet at the condo is already shut down, so this is a catch up blog.   We managed to get the Living room, Bedroom and two main closets purged and packed.  We are back on board for the weekend and will go back at it, in town next week and finish the bathroom, linen closet and kitchen.  We should be ready to load the truck on Saturday.  

We plan on doing this in two (stages) days.  Get the truck loaded and haul everything out here on Saturday.  Relax for the evening, then unload and set everything up on Sunday.  We will try to accommodate sleeping facilities for anyone that wants to come out and help in both (stages) days.  

Food and Beverages will be supplied to all workers.

  

THAT'S THE PLAN ANYWAYS

IT'S A DEAL, WE ARE MOVING

Well it looks like we have closed deals on both the House we are buying and the Condo we are selling.  What a stress it is, going through this sort of thing.  First of all you try to buy the new place that you like, as cheaply as possible.  Then you try to squeeze as much as you can out of the place your selling.  Because what you have in between is what you have to work with on the new place.  And the new place certainly needs work.  Oh, well!  We made the best deal we could get on both ends and I guess we are moving forward.  

We have sold our little condo, that most readers will be familiar with from it's description in one of my home pages. (look for header "our little condo") This has been our home base that we transition through each spring and fall, between our summers on board Thunderbird and our winters in Texas. For the last 8 years of this schedule it has worked well for us.  But, we have decided it is time to move on to something else.  We want a real house for when the time comes to give up the boat and become land lubbers.  

  We have purchased # 249, 6th Ave. in Winnipeg Beach.  It's a nice solid little (and I do mean little) house built in 1955, but it needs a lot of updating.  So, this will be our project for the next few years.  Wish us luck.    More details and pictures of our progress will follow.  





THE KAOS BEGINS






 

I MISS GETTING MORE DEEPLY INVOLVED

With living this life that Dan and I live.  Our life is really chopped up into 4 small segments.  

 Summer consists of living on board our boat.  Ideally, from our June 1st launch on through our September 30th pullout. 

Fall is October into November and is spent in our little condo with work weekends on the boat.  

Winter is our life down in Texas, living in our trailer from early November through to late March.

Spring is spent back in the condo from early April through May, with weekends working on boat projects and living on the boat out at the hangars.  

Each of these segments are not very long and therefore don't give you much time to get deeply involved in anything.   I do have one project that I am getting more deeply involved in down in Texas and that is the "Paradise Park Press", our little local park news letter that we publish once a month. 

The projects on the boat have kept me involved in re-design, upholstery and canvas sewing over the last 15 years of this boat restoration, but now we are pretty well done.  We still have maintenance projects in the spring and fall, but in the summer I seem to have a real lull.  I love spending the summer on the boat, but I need to find a passion or hobby to involve myself in for the summer months.  



THIS SUMMER SEEMS VERY BORING

WEEKEND VISITORS

We had our oldest son Jim and his wife Rachelle and their fur baby Bijou on board this weekend.  The weather and winds were perfect for a change. 

We went for a wee cruise and did some swimming off of the boat.  It took Bijou a while to get used to this jumping off of the boat thing. 

But in the end, Bijou thought that it was all really neat.

When we headed back in Bijou, was tuckered right out, resting her head on the walk around.  

Back in port we Bar-B-Qued and had a nice visit.

IT WAS A GREAT TIME

LOVE BIRDS

We have had so many geese in the harbour this year.  We figure about 7 breeding pairs, each with on average 5 goslings.  As Canada geese mate for life and are said to return to where they were born, to have their young, that should be a lot of geese next year.  

We are wondering about one of the pairs of geese that do not have a brood of goslings this year.  The discussion here in the harbour is, that there are all kinds of possibilities that may have contributed to this.  They may have found each other too late and tried to mate too late in the season?  They may have had a brood that were destroyed by predators?  One of them may be sterile?  Then there is always the possibility that they are "Gay"?

“In geese you may find a very strong homosexual bond between two male geese who behave like a “mating pair” even though they cannot copulate.  They always forget that the other refuses to be mounted and they try again every spring.  Each behaves in a perfectly normal male way and if he could speak he would say, “I love my wife very much, but she’s definitely frigid”…..   

Psychology Today.  

As male and female Canada Geese are identical in appearance, just a very slight difference in size, it is difficult to tell if these are a male and female, or two males.  Either way they are certainly pair bonded, and are always together.  Maybe we will see them again next year, if they survive, the long and treacherous journey they have ahead of them. 

I THINK ALL LOVE IS WONDERFUL