April 29,2007

So what have we been up to?

It is often said when a person retires they cannot figure out when they had time to go to work. It appears to be a very true statement.

We have spent 1 week working on the boat which is currently on land. The hull was scraped down to the first gel coat.Ready for the bottom paint. Ken mucked around a lot in the engine room. Put in the new fish finder and transducer. (Thanks Russ) Closed some old thru hulls and made some new ones. Having 2 new drive shafts made as one was slightly bent and the other had some electrolysis over 30 years. We head back to the boat tonight and will start ripping out the old settee and put in the new couch. Empty out the rented shed and start loading our worldly goods onto the boat. We down sized but still have too much! We will leave some things in Winfield that we know we will not need this summer.

In Winfield we erected a 170 foot cedar fence. Hauled away the old fence and junk around the yard. We painted the house on the outside. Planted flower beds, and cleaned up the yard. As the newspaper delivery lady said. Our house went from the ugliest to the nicest on the block. The neighbours are thrilled.

Well now everyone is updated and we are getting closer to untying the ropes.