Delta Marinas are Funny
When we were looking for a marina last year, we drove by several with every intention of stopping to investigate the prices, amenities, and cleanliness, but the outside appearance of most were so whacky we drove on past. We don’t typically judge anything just by the way it looks (love those grubby dive restaurants), but when […]
Delivery Day
Oh, what a cold and rainy day it was! With provisions and camping gear loaded onto the boat earlier in the week Jeni and I drove down to Richmond Saturday, arriving at KKMI’s dock at 0630 ready to start delivery day. The repairs completed (albeit, at a cost much more than expected) we were ready […]
Sweet Guinness
We had to put our dog, Guinness, to sleep on Tuesday, June 12, 2012. She was 15 years and 3 months old. We got her from the Sacramento SPCA in 1997. Her paperwork said she was a Lab/Newfoundland mix. She had spinal disease and was deteriorating rapidly. Over the past three months or so she […]
New Year’s resolution #3: start blogging. Mission accomplished?
I don’t know if opening a Word document and typing this sentence qualifies as starting a blog, but I guess it’s better than opening a Word document and typing “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog” (does that rhyme? no? ok, sorry for the interruption…keep reading.) So why did I want to start […]