Rachel

[windrose]

did you forget to close the door when you left Detroit or what? You show up, our balmy temps plummet and the wind picks up to 30 mph, giving us a feels like of 6*. Not good, not good at all! Just a reminder, MD is called "the land of pleasant living". Now close the dang door, I have boat work to do!

[Rachel]

did you forget to close the door when you left Detroit or what? ... close the dang door, I have boat work to do!

You and me both! I'm about to give up, screw on a prop-shaft zinc, launch the boat as is, and wait until spring. After all -- I now reason through chattering teeth -- the PO would have launched it this way next season.

I had a big list of things "since I'm on the hard," and the mast is down; but I didn't realize how cold it would be here (ahem.... pleasant living?), and camping at the boatyard is already getting very old.

But please, blame the jet stream ;-)

[Robert The Gray]

Rachel,
I fixed the end of the little lyric I posted earlier.
I have added another one that arrived in the head today.

traditional:

May she be the belle of the ball.
May she fly with grace, sails white and tall.
Into the future of wind,
out into liquid space,
this craft shall hold your fate.
A vessel for joy, a vessel for fear,
may she embrace the essence of what you hold dear.


modern:

for
in this crushing pressure between
the brittleness of my fathers ideas,
and the everlasting yielding of my mother,
there is, of and apart from the air,
the ripping, tearing, carving path of my
fingers as they
hold the dead cells of the forest and my
relation to the solid.
This heavenly bastard of a sun
and the ultimately fickle bitch of wind
have let me see
if for the moment however briefly
the marriage of the dragon and the nymph.
All this is to be eaten.
All this is to be eaten.
Go now, to the dark water
and gracefully deny her.


r
out west

[windrose]

Yikes, I don't know anything about that. However, I am on much better behavior these days and we have lots of room if you need a place for a week or so........... you know our backyard is fenced in for the dog and we have plenty of room.

[Jason K]

you know our backyard is fenced in for the dog and we have plenty of room.

Um...Ang, I don't want to bash your generosity, but offering space in the backyard is something I hope that we, as an online community, can improve upon. Rachel, you're welcome to come to Louisiana - at least I have a shed!!!!!

:)

It is awfully cold up there to be on a boat with no heater. Stay warm - March is only a month away.

[Rachel]

Robert: I'll take the traditional, thanks :-)

Windrose: Thanks so much; that's really nice of you. We could sick both of our dogs on "the squirrel" <grin>
(Ang's dog has a stuffed squirrel, and when you throw it -- the squirrel that is -- the dog just goes bananas. Shaking the squirrel, growling, etc. Very funny to watch. Like the dog and the vacuum cleaner from David Letterman years ago. And she actually has a nice, non-project house.)

It is awfully cold up there to be on a boat with no heater. Stay warm - March is only a month away.

Jason, the funny thing is that that would have been meaningless in northern Minnesota. So what if March is coming? Do I prefer dirty, layered snow to fresh white stuff? Here, it might actually mean something! Like warmth and longer days!

Okay folks, Windrose offered a backyard and Jason upped it to a shed. Do I hear a house-and-workshop from anyone? Tools? Wi-fi?

[Tim]

I just want to know how a Minnesotan can be complaining about the temperatures--no matter how "cold" they might be--in Virginia!

Sorry, Rachel: you only just moved there. You don't get to become one of those southern cold-weather softies for at least a year! :<)

[CharlieJ]

Now Rachel- you haven't already forgotten our offer??? Trailer space? Shop?

Of course launching might be a problem :)

And you've ALREADY tried out the couch here

Grin

[Ceasar Choppy]

I just want to know how a Minnesotan can be complaining about the temperatures--no matter how "cold" they might be--in Virginia!

Sorry, Rachel: you only just moved there. You don't get to become one of those southern cold-weather softies for at least a year! :<)

As someone who moved from Wisconsin to the VA area, I can vouch for how Rachel could complain about the cold. It is the humidity (really!).

I remember visiting Fairbanks, Alaska in February (-20 deg average) one year and when folks found out I was from WI, they said, "man, its really cold there!" I found -20 deg in Fairbanks actually tolerable since there was zero humidity.

[Tim]

That's actually very true. Just like dry heat, dry cold is more tolerable. Humidity in cold air lends that "raw" feeling that is uncomfortable.

[bcooke]

(says the guy working in the heated/insulated shop. Don't you have hot water pipes in the concrete floors too?...)

I suppose it is that long commute from the castle to the shop where you really get chilled!