As promised
I just received the photos of the paint job so here they are.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Friday, December 31, 2010
Christmas
Season's greetings to all
Wow It's been a hectic few days here on the dock. My daughter and grandson came down from the frozen north for the holidays and we all went down to Karen's house to enjoy Christmas dinner with her and the girls. We had a great time and spent the evening opening presents and OH,ing and AH,ing over all the gifts. Everyone then descended on the boat. And started painting. Last year Cath and Nolan primed the galley and stairwell. Over the ensuing year I got a few panels painted. I also found a wall mural that I thought would look good on the curved portion of the stairwell. This year they painted with a fury. The whole galley got painted, even the book shelf. Then Nolan put up the mural. WOW. Now it can truly be called the Sun Room. The mural is of a sunset with palm fronds over the ocean and beach. We had to cut out the beach to accommodate the space but the colors match everything in the room and just brings everything together.
It's new years eve, Abby stayed over the last couple of days to hang with gramp's and aunt Cath and lend a hand with the painting as well. Karen and Emily are on there way over to spend the night and shoot off fireworks.
My new neighbor should be moving in next week. He has had a small army of workers toiling away on his boat ( Koi's boat ). He had his family down from Gainsville for Christmas. They stayed on the boat overnight, We didn't see much of them as it was very cold, mid 30s but they did wave every now and then. As soon as I get pictures on the new paint job I will post them.
I must start getting the rib's ready for our new years eve party.
Till next time
Happy New Year.
Capt. Bob
Wow It's been a hectic few days here on the dock. My daughter and grandson came down from the frozen north for the holidays and we all went down to Karen's house to enjoy Christmas dinner with her and the girls. We had a great time and spent the evening opening presents and OH,ing and AH,ing over all the gifts. Everyone then descended on the boat. And started painting. Last year Cath and Nolan primed the galley and stairwell. Over the ensuing year I got a few panels painted. I also found a wall mural that I thought would look good on the curved portion of the stairwell. This year they painted with a fury. The whole galley got painted, even the book shelf. Then Nolan put up the mural. WOW. Now it can truly be called the Sun Room. The mural is of a sunset with palm fronds over the ocean and beach. We had to cut out the beach to accommodate the space but the colors match everything in the room and just brings everything together.
It's new years eve, Abby stayed over the last couple of days to hang with gramp's and aunt Cath and lend a hand with the painting as well. Karen and Emily are on there way over to spend the night and shoot off fireworks.
My new neighbor should be moving in next week. He has had a small army of workers toiling away on his boat ( Koi's boat ). He had his family down from Gainsville for Christmas. They stayed on the boat overnight, We didn't see much of them as it was very cold, mid 30s but they did wave every now and then. As soon as I get pictures on the new paint job I will post them.
I must start getting the rib's ready for our new years eve party.
Till next time
Happy New Year.
Capt. Bob
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Christmas
That time of the year is rapidly approaching. Are you ready? I know I'm not.
Just got back from my annual world wide cruise around middle America. Well maybe not world wide but definitely exhausting. Some how all my trips amount to 3000 miles, and this one was not an exception. I started out driving Irene up to Lake city to visit her daughter. Then on to Tenn. to inspect my property and check in on Tenn. Log Homes to get some plans for a log home I want to erect on the lake property. Then over to Jim & Susan for Thanksgiving. I spent about four days on the J/S farm and let the dog loose twice. We went around to a few lumber mills looking foe planking for the hatch covers on the Achievement. Found another source for log homes in the process. Then off to Va. After getting lost a couple of times I arrived at the home of Paul & sue Gregory. Parents of Tinkerbell and guardians of Sam the wonder dog. it was a very pleasant visit. Tinkerbell didn't stay long for she had to go to work. After my brief visit with the Gregory's I was off to my son's house. I spent two days catching up with the kid's and collecting all of my bric A brack I had left with them when I moved onto my sailboat. I then went over to the Weaver compound in the woods to visit with my buddy Ron and his brother. We chopped down a few trees and loaded some hickory in to the pickup for the trip home. I had a job pending for the tail end of the week so we had to bug out on Tue. morning for the trip home. Not a bad trip in all but long.
It looks like the good ship Malola ( Koi's boat ) has been sold. I encountered the new owner on my return from the frozen north. He informed me he had given Koi a deposit and payed the dock rent for Dec. Looks like I have a new neighbor.
It's been very quiet on the dock since my return. Bryan left to visit with his parents in South Carolina.
The Christmas parade of lights was last night. Boats and barges of all shapes and sizes had been going down river all afternoon to get in position for the event. later in the evening they all came back with there lights blazing. Looked nice.
Not much else to tell. I wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Capt. Bob
Just got back from my annual world wide cruise around middle America. Well maybe not world wide but definitely exhausting. Some how all my trips amount to 3000 miles, and this one was not an exception. I started out driving Irene up to Lake city to visit her daughter. Then on to Tenn. to inspect my property and check in on Tenn. Log Homes to get some plans for a log home I want to erect on the lake property. Then over to Jim & Susan for Thanksgiving. I spent about four days on the J/S farm and let the dog loose twice. We went around to a few lumber mills looking foe planking for the hatch covers on the Achievement. Found another source for log homes in the process. Then off to Va. After getting lost a couple of times I arrived at the home of Paul & sue Gregory. Parents of Tinkerbell and guardians of Sam the wonder dog. it was a very pleasant visit. Tinkerbell didn't stay long for she had to go to work. After my brief visit with the Gregory's I was off to my son's house. I spent two days catching up with the kid's and collecting all of my bric A brack I had left with them when I moved onto my sailboat. I then went over to the Weaver compound in the woods to visit with my buddy Ron and his brother. We chopped down a few trees and loaded some hickory in to the pickup for the trip home. I had a job pending for the tail end of the week so we had to bug out on Tue. morning for the trip home. Not a bad trip in all but long.
It looks like the good ship Malola ( Koi's boat ) has been sold. I encountered the new owner on my return from the frozen north. He informed me he had given Koi a deposit and payed the dock rent for Dec. Looks like I have a new neighbor.
It's been very quiet on the dock since my return. Bryan left to visit with his parents in South Carolina.
The Christmas parade of lights was last night. Boats and barges of all shapes and sizes had been going down river all afternoon to get in position for the event. later in the evening they all came back with there lights blazing. Looked nice.
Not much else to tell. I wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Capt. Bob
Monday, November 1, 2010
reprise
Hola everybody
It's been a quiet week on the dock. The kid's are gone and Bryan has been pushing barges up and down the west coast. It's been raining the last couple of days. We had a wild group visit last week. Two couples from Chicago and one couple from Tampa. They are friends of a buddy of mine. I met one of the couples last year when my buddy came down to do a cruise. Last week they descended on us on there way down to Key West for fantasy fest. They showed up with food ,drink ,whiskey , and smoke and hung out until the wee hours of the morning enjoying the river scene. They were impressed. We also had our usual cast of river rats on hand as well.
We've had a few bites on the Koi miesters boat. nothing solid yet but it should move with little trouble.
It looks like we have another party on the horizon. It seems we have two birthdays coming up in the middle of the month. Bryan wants to do a low country boil. Ron wants to do a smoked fish dish and I was thinking about doing some tuna or sword fish steaks on the grill. It should be fun. The last three parties we had were heavily attended. 50 to 80 people each time. Were going to try to hold this one down to about 20 people. Lot's of luck on that I'm sure but we can try.
Not much else to report. I'll try to get pictures of the party.
Life is good.
Capt. Bob
It's been a quiet week on the dock. The kid's are gone and Bryan has been pushing barges up and down the west coast. It's been raining the last couple of days. We had a wild group visit last week. Two couples from Chicago and one couple from Tampa. They are friends of a buddy of mine. I met one of the couples last year when my buddy came down to do a cruise. Last week they descended on us on there way down to Key West for fantasy fest. They showed up with food ,drink ,whiskey , and smoke and hung out until the wee hours of the morning enjoying the river scene. They were impressed. We also had our usual cast of river rats on hand as well.
We've had a few bites on the Koi miesters boat. nothing solid yet but it should move with little trouble.
It looks like we have another party on the horizon. It seems we have two birthdays coming up in the middle of the month. Bryan wants to do a low country boil. Ron wants to do a smoked fish dish and I was thinking about doing some tuna or sword fish steaks on the grill. It should be fun. The last three parties we had were heavily attended. 50 to 80 people each time. Were going to try to hold this one down to about 20 people. Lot's of luck on that I'm sure but we can try.
Not much else to report. I'll try to get pictures of the party.
Life is good.
Capt. Bob
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Sad, Sad, Sad !
The troupe is gone.
They packed up and left today. It's a sad night on the dock tonight. No Sam to greet me when I come home. No friends to drink with and chew the fat. I am sad.
It was a tough day for every one. Packing being the priority. Every one had an assigned set of chores. Even Me. The day went normally for most of the morning.
It began to get dicey in the early afternoon. The car had to be packed ,The boat closed, Well you know. The whole time Sam was going from the deck to the car to the deck to the car.He finally picked up his favorite toy and put it in the car and said Let's Go!
And they left.
We miss you already and wish you "God speed"
Capt. Bob
Sunday, October 17, 2010
the morning after
Wow what a party
Everything worked out just fine. we went to west Hialeah to pick up the pig. It is the only USDA approved slaughter house in Miami and it was packed. you go into a pen area where the pig's are sorted by size. you give them an idea as to what size you want then a guy goes into the appropriate pen and herds one out into a scale pen where it is weighed on the hoof. If it is what you want they stamp a number on his backside and off he trots. About a half hour later he comes out a side door packed, wrapped and ready to travel.
The keg was a little harder. We tried to call "Party Keg's" all day and got no answer. Late Fri. evening Bryon started looking around for another supply. After a few calls he located a source close by who would deliver and tap the keg for us and supple cups and ice but only had Yingling in stock. We put in the order and started to relax when Koi came over. " Yingling no way, Not again" and he started to make some calls. Well it turns out that Google had the wrong number listed for party kegs. They have two locations. When we called the south Miami location and told them that no one was answering the phone at the down town store they gave us the right number. We got Miller lite and everyone was happy, except for the guy with the Yingling.
We put the pig in the box around noon,tapped the keg and sat down and waited. Folks started arriving around 1pm and I think it was about 2 am when I finally went to bed. I think we had about 55 to 60 guests. There was ample food, drink and conversation to go around. Life was good.
Lyn took some pictures and posted them on facebook. I hijacked them and will post them. It might be awhile before we have another dock party, My collaborators are leaving town. Thats all I have for now.
Capt. Bob
Thursday, October 14, 2010
movie star
Looks like the show "burn notice" likes the boat as much as we do. My daughter, The blog master noticed the shot on a recant show and captured it. She looks good. My daughter also.
This is party weekend.
Our last dock party of the modern era. Koi and Tinkerbell leave in about a week. They will be missed. But party we must. The preparations begin in Ernest tomorrow. The pig in the morning and the keg at night. We have a new awning up. we will set up tents and tables Sat. morning, then hang on until it's over.
Come on out and visit.
Capt. Bob
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