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I'm over it....officially...I'm done..dusted!!!!

I open the hatches

I close the hatches

(I bloody well turn the hatches over).

And still I get the timing wrong. Looks good to go for a quick dash to the shower...inclemency is not dooming...I leave the hatches open...gggrrrr....I come back and YET AGAIN, I have a wet bunk. I am incontinent before my time!!!!!! The quandary...sleep in the wet spot or change the sheets? And I thought I'd left all that behind when I entered upon this single life??!!

I grew mushrooms ....no shnit....in my boat from all the moisture...pretty little orange golden beauties that one would expect to find on the forest floor, not in a boat!! One of life's mysteries.

My girls play cello and violin through school. Itsy bitsy problem with such sensitive instruments is that they don't like temperature variations or humidity so for fear of becoming horribly out of tune or snapping a string, so, whilst the girls and I have sweltered in the body of the boat, 'Chelsea' and 'Veronica' have languished in their 24-hour a day climate-controlled aft cabin. Yes, I DO believe I have gone nuts!!!!

Have I seen everything there is to see on a boat now...not bloody likely...just a little morsel of life aboard during a rainy season.

Would I have it any other way? No! My only lament is that autumnal touch of southeast in the air every morning intuitively makes me want to cast my lines and head north for the cruising season. Why lament? It is something the girls and I cannot have...this year at least. School, uni, 'getting ahead'.

Hope so!!!!!

weiry said...

wind and rain, So over it

Add some cold and traffic gridlock, and you'll know how I feel.

Been mobs of rain here in Cairns, here's a photo of the Barron Falls today. The Barron River was a lot higher yesterday but the road up the range was blocked. And yep, sick of the rain also.

Mark _australia said...

Bob what's all that stuff in the valley?

Mark I'm old enough to have actually seen the Mundaring Weir overflow

firiebob said...

Mark _australia said...

Bob what's all that stuff in the valley?

Mark I'm old enough to have actually seen the Mundaring Weir overflow

Wish I could remember
Joan said you should have body surfed down Barron

I saw this idea in a book years ago.... it might be of use for you.

Gizmo said...

I saw this idea in a book years ago.... it might be of use for you.

bob couper?

badinfluence said...

Thanks Gizmo...bloody brilliant...!!

Forgot to mention my ant infestation....this will either help bring the ants out of the cabin or encourage more onto the boat!!

The ants have brought my neighbour unhinged...I see him in his pursuit of his futile attempts to quell the march stomping on them...day and night...but still they come!!

Oh yes, it's been a long wet season hehehe

Sure you still want to come and stay Pup?? Hehehehe

Fab Wednesday to all.....now go and do something constructive!!!!!
Trace

2 days to go and now you tell me .... that's pure female too bloody late now Ken where are you ? it's time for a Man to do the job properly

slainte said...

I,m here, workin my ass off Trace ,get some safeway ant grud and something spray and kil the little buggers. As for the hatches grab some cheap blue tarps from super crap and tie em over the tops to your lifelines. Alternatively buy a new cat.
http://boatsales.com.au/boats-for-sale/boatdetails.aspx?R=12333038
How long you gunna be on the wet side of the island for Pup. Would like to catch up with you, Trace, Weiry and some others. I,m workin and Golfin' this weekend (if the rain don,t close the course that is ) but the following weekend or nights during the week am mostly free.

Tuesday or wednesday is the only day i can get free in Brisbane for the week.

Good stuff. Won,t be hard to get Weirsy, just dangle the carrot called Bundy and he,ll come a runnin'.Will give you a bell on the weekend