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Today we are going to the Cove for the New Year potluck and we'll just sleep on the boat tonight. I am really starting to miss it anyway.

Happy New Year! Don't drink and drive! If I find out you did, I'll kick your as... you know...

Housesitting

We are house-sitting for a friend right now. Compared to a boat, this house feels like a mansion. Downright HUGE! I am not sure what to do with all the space. It does make me wish for a house again, but then the sensible, frugal girl inside me decides not. I would rather just have a bigger boat. A 40 footer would be the max size for me. Something with a center cock-pit and 2 aft cabins. That would be great. But since I can't have that right now (swimming in debt) I decided to make a list of things that I would want for Epiphany, our current home... a 30 foot sailing sloop.

Let's see, I have the stove and oven and they both work. I could get picky and ask for a brand new stove, but I'll wait until I have everything else first. Comfortable cushions for the dinette are a need! My tailbone falls asleep sitting on the dinette. A small coffee table for when I don't have the dining table together. A nice cover that goes from the boom and makes a little "room" out of the cockpit would be nice. They are pricey though, so I will have to wait. A double sink and two pump faucets... one for fresh water and one for salt water. A brand new fresh water holding tank. Ours is about as old as the boat itself. A decent head holding tank and a toilet, just in case this one doesn't work. A hot water heater for quick showers on board. A crew that cleans and buffs for me and a cabana boy. I'll take scantily clad sailors instead.

I'm not too picky. Am I?

A year in pictures...

As I find pictures over the next few days, I will be posting them to the blog. It is my year end picture show! Enjoy!

Here are the boys at Balboa Park. It's a great park to walk through, has museums, playgrounds, a zoo, and a lot of other stuff.

Here is the Galley as you look into the hatch (the door you enter the boat). You can see the stove and oven... the green camp stove isn't there anymore. The stove and oven both work. Then the sink (with the white thing in it. The four drawers next to the fridge and then the fridge. And behind the sink and counter is a storage shelf that is shaped like a square-ish U. The door is to the captains cabin (that would be dh and I) and the square in the floor leads to the bilge, a great place for storing beer, wine, green tea (already made) and eggs.