One of the things people talk about when discussing cruising is the fact that it is a life of highs and lows, and that the highs are really high and the lows are really low. There are those high days when the sunsets aren't your normal run-of-the-mill sunsets, they are strikingly beautiful take your breath away kind of sunsets. The water colors are colors that you just simply can't imagine anywhere outside of a graphic art program, and then there's that grinning from ear to ear when you manage to sail perfectly off the anchor or the wind is a perfect 15 knots and you have the sails perfectly balanced, or you just kiss the dock with the fenders and step off like you really meant to do it. Not to mention the days you see dolphins and turtles and manatees and cormorants and pelicans and eagles...
On the other side there are those low days when you get to clean mold out of the back of your cupboards, your coffee gets spilled when you get waked by some idiot power boater who can't read the NO WAKE sign, you have to look for 3 hours for the tool you know you brought, and your head gets plugged by some NBP's (non-boating person's) kid who thought it would be perfectly alright to put his rubber alligator in the bowl and give it a swirly.
Today was neither. Today was one of those rarely experienced on a boat, The Ordinary Day. It was cool enough this morning to enjoy our coffee which, by the way, we got to finish all the way to the bottom before a boat project started. We had a nice dinghy ride past some friends' boats to invite them to have pizza with us tomorrow. Tim took a nap. We caught up on some computer work. I made cookies. And we read. After all of those days of working our tails off to get the boat ready and all of those days steaming like mad men to get south of the cold, I rather cherish these ordinary days. I hope yours was as pleasant today.
On the other side there are those low days when you get to clean mold out of the back of your cupboards, your coffee gets spilled when you get waked by some idiot power boater who can't read the NO WAKE sign, you have to look for 3 hours for the tool you know you brought, and your head gets plugged by some NBP's (non-boating person's) kid who thought it would be perfectly alright to put his rubber alligator in the bowl and give it a swirly.
Today was neither. Today was one of those rarely experienced on a boat, The Ordinary Day. It was cool enough this morning to enjoy our coffee which, by the way, we got to finish all the way to the bottom before a boat project started. We had a nice dinghy ride past some friends' boats to invite them to have pizza with us tomorrow. Tim took a nap. We caught up on some computer work. I made cookies. And we read. After all of those days of working our tails off to get the boat ready and all of those days steaming like mad men to get south of the cold, I rather cherish these ordinary days. I hope yours was as pleasant today.
2 comments:
Other than we just got another 4" of snow and the temp keeps dropping into the single digit's it night, yea they have been pretty good. LOL
Enjoy, you both have earned it.
Bill Kelleher
Strive for Ordinary....
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