Our boat is in her slip at Tacoma, motorsailed there last week from Seattle by our boat-broker, Lee, with "a couple he knows from O-Dock" (I love the community-ness of docks-and-boaters). Lee took this photo of Seattle's skyline from our boat.. This is the busiest, craziest, hardest month for us to get away from the … Continue reading The Ship’s Cat Wants a Ship’s Goose
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What WASN’T in the Job Description…
Two years ago on an August evening, an unknown Oregon number rang my Idaho cell, and I picked up the call that changed EVERYTHING. Jon and I were agitating to get out of Boise, which has outgrown itself ----wanting to move closer to the Coast, somewhere small-town, more like Idaho used to be... (When I … Continue reading What WASN’T in the Job Description…
Reasons
We ended up holding an impromptu Scuba-demo last night at our campsite... The same gaggle of youngsters who had gathered around our motorcycle a couple days earlier returned, drawn this time by our clothesline full of wetsuits and dive gear. They were brimming with questions---what things we've seen diving, how we breathe underwater... So Jon … Continue reading Reasons
On Physics and Fear
Our next door neighbor is learning to play guitar. I know this because his open screen door wasn’t far from our open bedroom window at nine o’clock last night. As he worked his way through the opening chords of “Smoke on the Water” (over and over and over and over and over) I consoled myself … Continue reading On Physics and Fear
The Catch-22 of SR-22
Well, I'm a day closer to getting my driver's license back. I'm also a day past when I thought I was getting it. Do you ever wonder who made up "the rules," and what they were thinking? I knew I'd have to get SR-22 proof-of-insurance as soon as I got my license back (it's one … Continue reading The Catch-22 of SR-22
Jesus Meets a Harley-Riding Rabbit
Regardless of what the retail-store displays would have us believe, Easter really isn't about chocolate, baskets, or long-eared hopping mammals. Nevertheless, our church chooses to host an "Easter Eggstravaganza" for the neighborhood, staged in the park right behind the church. It's part of our mission to reach out to the neighborhood, and be a presence. It's not intended … Continue reading Jesus Meets a Harley-Riding Rabbit
Like a (Dry-Docked) Sailboat: RV Living
Because I'm a sailboat skipper, I'm amused by RV terminology that borrows from the marine arena. Like the "shore cord"---the cord we plug in at an RV park to power the rig's electrical system. On a sailboat a shore cord (which you'd plug in at the dock when you stay in a marina) makes sense---it … Continue reading Like a (Dry-Docked) Sailboat: RV Living
Kana's Chronicles 