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We haven’t posted in a long time…. things have been less than calm we have had no time for the blog.  Since we last blogged we lost some family members.  Life has not been to rosy for us.  Luckily we were here with our family instead of across the ocean so we could be with and deal with […]

We have several family members with serious health issues so we have been unable to post for a while.  The issues are not resolved but I thought blogging about something totally unrelated to healthcare might be a nice respite.  This is the first time we have lived onboard SYL without immediate plans to cruise.  Due […]

Normally, this time of year we are in the Exuma’s.  This is the first year I have ever been on SYL in Texas in May.  It is not even summer yet  and it is hotter than blazes.   I have the AC going full blast and it is still sooooooo hot in here.  Rusty says […]

This subject has been brewing with me for several weeks now.  I alluded to it in a past blog.  Now, I find I am going to do something I rarely do, be critical of some one else’s position on a matter.  I started reading a book called “Simply Sailing, A Different Approach To A Life […]

It has been blustery lately….  Yesterday was no exception.  Sunday morning we got up early and visited Linda’s brother 30 miles away then returned to the boat for a spirited evening sail. Linda’s oldest (Stuart) came to visit Sunday evening with a friend.  Most of the TMCA group had left when we got back to the […]

Yesterday, about 12 boats from the TMCA (Texas Mariner Cruiser Association) sailed/motored from Kemah to Bayland Marina.  Most of the boats came in around 12:00 and spent the day visiting on other boats and generally just having a good time.  We didn’t know many of them so it was good to meet new “boat friends”.   We […]

          Rusty came home last night and put the new floor in the garage and we got everything back, cleaned, wiped and cloraxed.  Rusty got the deck scrubbed.  I just love a clean boat!!!.    Friends of ours dropped by this morning and it was such a pleasant surprise.  They were […]

    I am currently taking a break from the unfun part of owning a boat.  I started to say cruising, except the situation I am now dealing with would have been a simple solution had we been on SYL.  Sometime after I left the boat in Destin and during the sail from Destin to […]

        For the last few years Rusty and I have not been home for crawfish season…..well, not this year!!  We are spending this cruising season planning a wedding.  Erin, my youngest, got engaged at Christmas and that changed everything.  We spent the first quarter of this year getting SYL home from Brunswick, […]