Coming Along

The last two days we have been able to prime and paint the mast!! We had problems with overspray at the boat yard and hurried through the painting due to the weather but it will look much better and we'll get her up on the boat soon. We had some guests here at the park that own a machine shop and they helped us drill our chainplate holes. We need two 13/16" holes drilled in Brett's stainless steel plates. They brought them back yesterday and didn't charge us! It was very sweet.

We are so close to getting the mast stepped. We also talked to the crane operator yesterday who happened to be at the boat yard and the stepping up is cheaper than what we were told. So we are really excited at being able to step it up next payday.

Last week, I had the mail deliverer ask me if I would work for the Post Office temporarily. I said the postmaster could call me. He called me on Wednesday and then again on Thursday. I told him I needed to talk to my husband. We decided I couldn't make the classes in Houston and couldn't drive to work since we have no car. It would be difficult to do. If we were here on a more permanent basis, I would have done it because it is a great opportunity!! But our goal is to sail in a few months. He said he would call back on Friday but I hadn't heard from him. He had stopped by to ask me about it too! I have never been recruited like that for a job! It was really nice and I really wanted to do it. But it just wasn't quite enough hours to do it instead of the park and I couldn't do both...But it was nice to be thought of.

I am really looking forward to the fall where I can start doing jewelry shows. Brett and I are going to try and do more boat work too. I want to clean boats and do woodwork. i think between the shows and the boatwork, we would make plenty to pay our bills. Brett has a big job lined up that will pay for a lot of the entrance fees to the shows so I can get them lined up. I miss my jewelry a lot. I may even start my website back up once I quit working for the park. I'll have more time to make Post Office runs.

I have been doing well on my weight loss. This lifestyle change has made a huge difference. I have lost... wow.. like, 20 lbs since February! Didn't realize it! Cool!

Hope everyone is doing well. Miss you all a lot.

Anyone out there?

I haven't heard from anyone lately. Hope all is well with everyone.

We were going to paint the mast this weekend but it looks like it is going to rain/thunderstorm so we might not be able to. .. It's going to be a busy weekend here at the park, too...

Kyla

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This last weekend, we found out from the Coast Guard that the bill of sales have problems between the previous owner and the owner before him. Uh oh.... I was feeling extremely depressed and discouraged about it but we got the paperwork sent back in again quickly. I found an additional page of the Bill of Sale so hopefully they'll accept it... We have to have the documentation for the boat before we can get state registration. We have to have one or the other to sail. So I am feeling uneasy because it has been impossible to try and contact the previous owner or the owner before him, even. I was able to find an address for the owner before Jose, so I sent off a Certified letter to him, hoping that he it will find him and he can do a new bill of sale to Jose...

We also received our new wire for the rigging. We had to order one huge wire with a new turnbuckle and eyes. It cost over $200 but now we have the last wire replaced. All the other wires had been replaced at some point, this was the one that had not been. The turnbuckle had been missing a piece on the old wire and we noticed that it was stressed. So got a new one. Luckily it was our shortest wire to have to replace. The other ones would probably be over $300-400 each.

We are preparing to step the mast in a couple weeks. Brett got the chainplates done and everything else needed. Now we are ready to paint it. Unfortunately, our painting days run right into Memorial Day weekend. The park was wanting us to work on Friday due to the amount of arrivals. But they don't need us till the afternoon so we are going to try and paint in the morning. We'll see how it goes.

We are doing okay otherwise. It's getting difficult to live in this camper and I have the "home" bug bad. I want to fly home for a visit but know I really can't afford to. But I will try to focus on the boat and getting the mast up.

The park got a new internet service and the internet has been working great since. The new computer works well for the internet and has a beautiful screen. I still have not been able to get my external hard-drive of 149Gb of information on it to work. I don't know what happened... I hope that I can get it fixed and salvaged by a computer technician. (Ray, can you help?) :)

I need to head off to work. Hope all is well with everyone. Miss you all.

New Computer, New Pics

Hi guys!! I have gotten a different computer from a very gracious boat neighbor. This computer is way nicer and bigger. Smaller hard drive but everything else is the same or better. So very thrilled with my new baby. All he wanted was my old, broken computer to dink around with.

Anyway, I got my pictures downloaded from a couple days ago. See my link for MY PICTURES. Let me know if you can see the pictures from the link. Thanks!

Kyla