Women ask the dumbest questions!

                             Coming into Ocean Springs, MS one of our favorite places.


As you know we have been up north working to build up the cruising kitty. Two weeks in Alabama, two weeks in Kentucky, and about a month in Indiana. I could not even get a minimum wage job in Florida, much less something decent. We are just a few days from leaving to go back down to Morgan, then on Mexico for my daughters wedding, then back to Morgan and continue down the west coast of Florida.

We have a mobile home here in Indiana that we got after selling the house and getting rid of 90% of our junk. We have had it about a year and a half now. We did not want to burn all bridges when we left to go cruising. Take it easy and see if it is all it is cracked up to be. Well we are now ready to let it go. It is now up for sale. So I am getting it ready for the next person. Tonight I painted the kitchen. I put a second coat on the new baseboard that we will put down on Wednesday.

Here's where we get to the dumb question part. Sharon walks in while I am painting and asks "why didn't you do this for us? Why did we have the place for a year and a half, and now you paint it?" For the record ladies, a dumb question is #1. any question your husband does not have a quick answer for. #2. Your husband does not have a quick answer that satisfies you to the point that you do not ask another question. You just have to know we males are looking at the big picture and we have everything under control.

Well it is almost midnight, so I am going to bed, and hope Sharon doesn't read this till morning.

Mike

Cool video

                                               I found this video on youtube. It is fantastic.

We plan on leaving Indiana on July 4th and going back down to Morgan for a few days before continuing on to Dallas for an insurance certification on the 8th. We will then meet Michelle (our youngest daughter) in San Antonio on the 12th. We will then all drive down to Mexico for Rachel's wedding (my oldest daughter). We will be in Mexico for about three weeks. After the wedding we will be returning to Morgan to continue cruising the west coast of Florida. Unless there is a hurricane, that will change everything.

As I may have mentioned in my last post, I have been doing nothing except work work work work work since we got back from the cruise with Sharon's family. I am definitely read for some on the boat cruising time.

Mike

Work, work work work work work work work work

Unfortunately that is all I have been doing for the last month.

Since arriving back in Indiana April 19th That's all I have done. We worked two weeks in Alabama doing insurance adjusting. We spent two weeks in Kentucky working construction. The rest of the time we have been here in Indiana working construction and doing some day claims for another insurance company.

I am just about tired of it. But we are still aways from being ready to set sail again. In less than a month we leave for Mexico to go to Rachel's wedding (oldest daughter, one down one to go). We plan on going straight back to Morgan after the wedding.

We are in the process of getting our mobile home ready to sell. In fact is has a sign in the window right now. We put a storage shed at my brothers house and have been packing the family "hierlooms". We are almost done.

I haven't been posting because work is BORING.

Well I got to go to work now.

Mike

Second article published

My second article was just published in the May/June issue of Living Aboard magazine. That was fun to see. Another magazine "This Old Boat" has purchased another article, but it won't run until next year. I sent a different article to "Small Craft Adviser", but they sent me a nice rejection letter. Oh well you can't win them all. I sent another to Latitudes and Attitudes, but haven't heard from them yet.

Mike

Thoughts

I was doing some reading today and came across the following quote that put into words what I have felt for some time now. Actually, it is what propelled me to the life on Morgan we now live.

"We each must choose our own path through life. Do we follow the course laid out for us by others, or dare we chart our own destiny? Brainwashed by our economic system, we become entombed beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, and preposterous gadgetry and playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade.
The years thunder by. The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie, caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, our tomb is sealed. For years we tuck away small treasures, so that in maturity we can have a few short years to enjoy the fruits of a lifetime of labors. But as the awaited time draws near, too many find that failure of health and mobility averts this dream from reality. Where, then lies the answer? In choice. Be it bankruptcy of purse, or bankruptcy of life? Go now, while still young and healthy enough to enjoy the adventure" http://highseasdrifter.net/

Sometimes

Sometimes life is so funny. Sharon is in Alabama right now and I am on Morgan. I came down for a couple of days to check on her in between work. No really I had to. It was manditory, I didn't want to, it was necesary. Ok, maybe that is a small white lie, but it is easily justifiable. I was loading the car tonight to get ready to leave early in the morning. I had both hands full of things and as I was stepping up to the dock from Morgan I dropped our favorite iron skillet into the water. I checked the depth sounder. It is low tide right now so it is only about 7 feet deep. I put on some trunks and dove in to get it. I got it on the first dive. It is nice that the water here is so clear. I could easily see it. If it had been Kentucky Lake I never would have found it. I know Sharon is shaking her head as she reads this, thinking only my husband. O well, the difference between an adventure and a bad day is attitude.

Mike

I DID A BAD THING TODAY

As you know we have been up north working to fatten up the anemic cruising kitty for a month now. The first two weeks in Indiana, and the last two weeks in Alabama working a storm. We are insurance adjusters (please don't hold that against me) and have been working the tornadoes that hit Alabama. I finished my last claim today, and have a couple of days before our next deployment so I wanted to get down to Morgan and Rosie to check on them. I have been worried about them as it has now been a month since I have seen them. This is where the bad thing comes in, now that I am here I do not want to leave. Five minutes on Morgan and it is as if I never left. I found her happily tied to the dock. I was worried that she might have mold growing in her or worse. She was in great shape. Her bilge was dry as a bone, even had cob webs in there. Sharon had left a plant on the table, and even it was fine, a little thirsty though. I am amazed how well she was. Oh God I don't want to leave!
     I will leave either tomorrow or early Tuesday morning to go back to work. I keep telling myself NO PAIN NO GAIN. We plan on sailing to the Bahamas in December or January, and to the US Virgin islands by March. It is going to take some work to be ready financially, but we can do it. Well that's it for now, I just want to enjoy being here.

Mike