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I’m no political activist or an aristocrat who has nothing better to do than hunt a cause to champion… I keep fairly busy in life.  I work hard, then play hard with little time in between to worry about politics, but as an American I feel the need to speak up (and step up as well). If you […]

Have you ever wondered where the term “short rows” came from?  For those that haven’t heard the term it means getting to the end of something.  In years gone by mom, dad and the kids planted and cultivated their own food in the garden…  Seldom is there a perfectly square or rectangular plot to place the […]

Good morning world…  Right now it’s all about the job…..  I’m putting in the hours, mining for gold.  Like anything of great advantage the “gold” isn’t jumping out of the ground with the greatest of ease.  Like I tell my people, if it was easy they would have our kids out here doing it… that’s whay they […]

The job is over half way complete… lots of hours, 5AM to 7P…  Overall we are doing well, no job in a dangerous environment is without it’s problems, but we have managed them well so far.   I have a sailing trip coming up at the end of the month.  I’m bringing my sailboat from the […]

It’s beginning to FEEL a lot like Christmas Yes, cold is a relative term, but bbbrrrrr it’s cold this morning.  SE Texas was still shorts weather until yesterday.  This morning I had to chop my tires loose from the parking lot with an axe to leave for work…… well…. not quite but it was 40 friggin’ degrees. […]

I had no idea the Harvest Moon Regatta involved nearly 200 boats, and was such a big event.  We sailed en-masse’ with more sails than commonly seen together which was picturesque in itself, now add the fact the race involved a night sail under the full “harvest” moon… and the experience went from unexpected to […]

I just read an article by one of our favorite people, Patrick from Bumfuzzle.  The article was on “How to Write a Sailing Blog”.  I just love Patrick’s candor, wit and sometimes bluntness.  Rusty and I started this blog mainly because our families thought we had lost our mind to leave land life and go […]

Although the job I’m on isn’t ending yet, I’m moving to another.  We knew when I came to Motiva Port Arthur that I was committed to a job in Texas City that would begin in October.  I’ll take a week in between jobs to rest at the lake. I’m training a replacement for my seat […]

Anybody that has ever read our blog knows how fluid our life is.  One day we are heading South, by lunch West looks interesting then by that evening we are headed North because work sent me that direction. If you want to, you could pick a day where we admitted a “plan” in our blog, then […]

We moved the boat yesterday from Bayland to Waterford in Kemah.   It’s nice, but most of all we have some good memories here.  We are back in SYL’s first Texas slip, her first port of call when we bought her in ’08.  Waterford is a bustling community, lots of sailors that actually use their boats.  The weekenders […]