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Schedules, plans, and reality
I don't wanna go home yet! Just as one should never work a New York Times crossword puzzle in ink (although we do. That Hans is a wild and crazy guy), one should never expect plans and schedules to go...
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Welcome back, Windy!
Windy, trying to appear humble, but actually looks quite smug We found it slightly ironic that as soon as our wind generator died, we finally began to experience wonderful windy days. This of course,...
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I'm With Stupid.
Poor Wilbur lies atop my foul weather gear. It was used far too often during this trip.When we reached the end of our voyage and reversed our route to head home from the Bahamas, we suffered a...
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Adjusting to Life on the Hard
I'm woefully behind on my posts. I've yet to write about our return crossing from the Bahamas, our bizarre trip up the ICW where we put the Knotty Cat on the hard, and our road trip home. Since we've...
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A great reason to come home
On 7/11, Hans and I attended my son's wedding. It started on a Thursday when the parents of the groom met the parents of the bride for the very first time, and I realize in this day and age of...
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Life Continues to be Interesting
A beautiful fall day in Pennsylvania When we put the Knotty Cat on the hard in June and came back to Pennsylvania, it was with the intention of staying a few months and then heading back to Florida...
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Back to the Boat and Reality
Poor Wilbur. He has one tiny space in the back seat. He's a good traveler. So six months after putting The Knotty Cat on the hard in Florida for what we thought was going to be a couple of months, we...
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The Whole Dirty Story
After sitting for nearly seven months on the hard, our Knotty Cat welcomed us back today with filthy open arms.Oh, my, where to start.Well, she's just plain filthy.Mildew. This seat was spotless when...
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Failure to Launch
It sounds cute when it's a fun filled movie complete with quirky characters and popular actors, but for cruisers the term Failure to Launch isn't fun at all. Today was the day we were supposed to put...
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Topsy Turvy.
I can't believe it's May. This has seriously been a few crazy months for us.On the blog I left off in January when we were getting back on board the Knotty Cat after having left her on the hard for...
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Hooterville
A dog bed on the floor? Seriously? Because we all know where Wilbur sleeps.I alluded in my last blog post that we would tell you about our new home (temporary home that is. We intend to head back to...
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More Country Livin'
We thought we were pretty smart when we arrived here in Pennsylvania from Florida in April. Let's wait until the snow's gone, we said. Well, as everyone knows we weren't so smart since along with temps...
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Welcome to the Neighborhood!
Early morning breakfast shift drive Hans and I are a little over three months into our new (and temporary) life here in the boondocks and we're getting all kinds of countrified. I've made both rhubarb...
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All Kindsa Busy
And boy do I mean busy!What I thought was going to be a part time waitressing job has for the most part been full time. The inn experienced a very busy summer, so busy in fact that I nearly missed my...
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Surviving
It seems like just yesterday that Hurricane Mathew was in the news and Hans and I were wondering if we'd have a boat to go home to in January. After days of listening to the 'We Love and Live for...
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Winter Wonderland
This past weekend Hans and I went back in time and while I wish I could say it was a 'simpler' time, it wasn't. What happened was; a polar vortex (when I was a kid we called it snow) swept through...
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Getting the Cold Shoulder
When we left Pennsylvania a few years ago and headed south I couldn't wait to be shut of 50 plus years of dreary winters. However, we ended up moving too far south and found ourselves in the tropics of...
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The Real Legend of Christmas
Once upon a time, many, many years ago every Christmas Eve, Santa Claus relied upon Wilbur the Red Nosed Pit Bull to help him deliver presents to good little boys and girls and kittehs (but not very...
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Home. Again
Very pretty. But coldIt seems like we'd barely unpacked our bags in Hooterville this past spring where the grass never stopped growing when all of a sudden it was January 1st and time to repack and...
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I'm Hearing Voices and I Don't Like It.
Surely someone with a working dinghy will give me a ride off this boat!When Hans and I arrived back in Florida we already had seven doctors appointments scheduled. We are both believers in preventative...
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Wasting Away Again in Geezerville
Someone really doesn't have it so bad. Hans and I continue to spend our days enduring that seemingly endless revolving door of doctors' appointments. We've been poked, prodded, squeezed, monitored,...
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Aweigh!
Wilbur's opinion of my blogging abilities. Eight days after departing Stuart, Florida we've moved about 180 miles. 800 more to go.I just got online to publish the blog post I labored over for days,...
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Gone
This is a long post. However, it could've been a lot longer. There just aren't enough words to convey my feelings.Christmas 2016. Hans took this picture.Every day that Hans and I have been underway...
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Out of Florida
I guess if you're not peeing on it you may as well sleep on it. Multi-tasking or just being a stinker, I'm not sure. I know there are some people who move north to south and then south to north via the...
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It’s been awhile
So where’d I leave off ALMOST A YEAR AGO?I believe we’d just arrived in North Carolina and it was time to give the Knotty Cat a thorough going over. And by golly she got one.Luckily, we’re in an area...
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