To blog or not to blog? Ah yes. . . that is the question.
Thank you Dawna and Julie for your e-mails. Julie, I'm glad you figured out how to send it. I'm so happy to hear from you; it made my day!
Sleep! I NEED SLEEP! You'd think that after numerous day naps, I wouldn't be so tired after my night shift. After all, it ends at only 9 pm.
When on watch, I give it my 110% attention and concentration. At the beginning, end, and every 10 minutes during my 3 hours, I scrutinize the horizon line for ships. That's 19 times! (I really, really, really don't want to run into one!) I concentrate on wind angle ( Which is ever changing by 10-20 degrees) and compass heading. In between all that is the really hard work of day (or night) dreaming, star gazing, and reflecting on moon reflections. I wrote a haiku for you Karen:
Night sky, mast head light.
Direction arrow waltzes with the Big Dipper.
Dancing with stars, over ocean.
Is that a haiku?
Oh! I forgot . . . I was going to talk about sleep!
The main salon has a bunk on each side, then a bench on each side. Tina has the starboard bunk. The starboard bench seat has 6 crates of provisions strapped to it. Chuck has the port side bunk and I have the port side bench seat. I like to call it the nauti-sofa. I keep my bed cleaned off during the day (toss stuff up on Chuck's bunk) so anyone can sit on it.
I'd better start talking about sleep now, or I may never get to it.
Every night, when I get off watch, I have to make my bed. Last night, we were heeled to starboard. Just getting down the companion way gave me a whole weeks workout of exercise!
Before I can make the bed, I have to get out of my life jacket and foul weather gear, then stow it. Then, of course, use the head. Remember before? I said to use your imagination in the head and multiply by 5 1/2? Well. . . change that to 25 1/2! I believe that I now qualify for the gymnast Olympics!
Back to making the bed. Well, sorry, I have get ready to go on watch now. I will continue this in my next blog.
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Hi Jan,
Oh, when you originally mentioned using the head (on June 10), I thought you were talking about YOUR head (you know, the one that's attached to your neck). NOW, my imagination takes on a whole new direction. OK, so now that I'm trying to wrap my head around this after it finally dawns on me, then you upgrade the imagination factor from 5 1/2 to 25 1/2. Oh well, I'll try not to be too stressed out about it. OK now I REALLY have to laugh when I think back to my response...never mind about having Chuck take any pictures so we can all have a good laugh.
This morning in your honor, I did one of the paint-by-numbers. Well, maybe two of them. OK, three. I was imagining that I was there with you on the boat...good feelings. By the way, have you tried the Hashi on page 28? I enjoyed it, but the 4th one I haven't finished yet (challenging).
Looking forward to hearing the rest of your explanation about sleep. What a complex and gruelling operation! And you haven't even made your bed yet.
To go to a movie or not to go to a movie...that's the question for me. As usual, I'm really loving your blogs, whether you blog or not blog (I almost said "glob").
Love, Dawna
Happy Father's Day Chuck!!!!!
Can't wait to here all your stories in person. Take a lot of pictures for us.
From: Julie and Josh
Hello mate greeat blog
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