Come on out I’ve got 19 mostly solo days planed (6-30 to 7-18). Always more fun with 2.
Les, I promise, some day I will, but, as JD knows, I am swamped with starting a homestead business right now. I am trying to finish up a deck and then grout 500 s.f. of slate tile, build a new stoop, paint 2 bathrooms and install wainscotting, basically get our new rental house ready for our first AirBnB booking and I spent today digging out weeds from my wife's garden terrace and filling it back in with a truck load of mulch. There's more on that list, much more, like build the farmer's market booth, get all the necessary licensing and make more inventory for our first farmer's market/ craft fair endeavor next week. Blah blah...
SBO is my escape.
If you have ever worked construction, you'll know what I'm talking about. You're roofing with a small crew or framing or siding, whatever, and one of the guys stops, he holsters his hammer or puts his roofing gun down and straightens up. He sighs and reaches in his pocket and taps out a cigarette while palming his lighter. He lights up, takes a drag and admires the view from the rooftop for a couple of minutes. Then, he's back to work. Nobody objects or raises an eyebrow. It's the darnedest thing. If you stopped like that to unwrap a lollipop or pour yourself a cup of coffee out of your thermos, the forman would be all over you. Cigarettes, at least they use to be, are understood and tolerated.
Anyhow, I work mostly alone and that is how it is with me, my smart phone and SBO. I'm addicted and I need regular fixes. Only water and sail will detox me. That or make it worse.
Les, JS, Kermit, TomY, Shadow, rgranger, CrazyDave, DrJudyB, dlochner, JamesG, SFS, and many others, even JD and KG, I know we have our different perspectives, but I consider you my neosenipals. Life is a little sweeter with you all in it.
Sorry, don't mean to hijack another thread.
So, back to the real or imagined rolling of a larger boat. It is a worthy point about being higher off the water. Not sure? Sit at the spreaders and feel the roll. Same rate as on the deck, much larger swing.
- Will (Dragonfly)