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Not Here

My life is strange.  It seems that I always want to be “somewhere else” and want to be doing “something else”.  Living on the boat is very cool but I can’t stop the ‘somewhere else/something else’ feelings. Perhaps it is just finances. I am finding owning a house and a boat and trying to make… [Read More]

Away

I had a couple days off the boat – felt kinda strange. I made the three hour drive to Tampa, FL (Trinity, actually) to visit a niece and her family.  I’ve only been living aboard for a couple weeks but the feeling is still noticeable. I had a wonderful time and enjoyed all the SPACE.  I think… [Read More]

STRESS!!

Sometimes it seems that nothing ever goes to plan.  I even had a pretty simple one this time.  Step one was to arrive at the boat and do some serious cleaning.  Interestingly, the shore water faucets had no water. No problem, I’ll use on board water. My battery bank was dead.  Ugh.  I plugged into… [Read More]

Change

Finally, a change of scenery, a bit of adventure… I have departed for my boat.  Her and I will be companions for the foreseeable future. Is the house sold? No. Will it ever sell?  Who knows.  What I do know is that I have spent the last two years waiting and hurting. Every day is… [Read More]

Downer Day

Not surprising I guess, the contract on my home has fallen apart. I feel very cheated. My realtor was also the buyers realtor (sign #1).  After waiting for two months, the buyers lender (underwriter) wanted a second appraisal but the buyer did not want to pay for it. Instead, the buyer wanted to amend the… [Read More]

Home Sale

The sale of my home continues to be a very frustrating experience. This is my third home sale and this one is far and away the most complicated, frustrating, and time consuming. The bank or underwriter (or someone) hired an appraiser to appraise the value. He did so and now they (the underwriter) is rejecting… [Read More]

The Plan

Planning is one of those things that my personality type enjoys, even demands.  I love a plan. That said; I’ve intentionally avoided stating my plan here. The last couple of years have been hard. One of the problems has been that every time I attempt to develop a plan, something is thrown in the way… [Read More]

Happy Birthday Jesus!

There is always great debate in the United States over many things.  This time of year it is over the reason for the Christmas holiday. Too bad as this is a wonderful time of year but people instead choose to turn it into disagreement, argument, and even conflict. Thankfully, this is another of the topics that is very easy… [Read More]

Thanks Sis

This was to be my first ever Christmas spent alone. I had done a pretty good job staying busy and simply avoiding it. Then it happened… My little sister sent me a box and told me to open it on Christmas Eve. I did as told and as I unpacked it, the emotions took over…. [Read More]

Snow

I admit, it is beautiful… I grew up in Montana and spent many years in Minnesnowta so have kinda had my fill of the stuff over the years.  As I was watching it fall today, it struck me that I have a very habit of digging up bad experiences from the past. Yeah, one of the… [Read More]