The Boat Saga

Posted Thursday, July 15

As many of you know, Dave's been building a boat for the last two years. We have no off street parking (which is one HUGE reason we're buying the house we're buying!) so, Dave erected two large tents in our back yard in which he built this yet to be sailed little beauty.

Yes, we'll be towing his stunning little boat to our new home.

As some of you also know, maneuvering large things in and out of our yard is tricky.............narrow walk and steps. Dave and a friend somehow managed to get it to the street this afternoon. I'd have taken photos, but was busy putting pillows on the walk so they could set it down when it got too heavy.

So you might ask, if, in a week's time, we're moving a thousand miles away where do I find time to blog? Well, one other element to the story is I gave Dave a beautiful kayak trailer for Valentine's Day about 2 years ago, and, he's had to spend the last 3 days or so modifying it for the boat (that usual male-only gene assuring him he can get whatever needs doing, done in 1/2 the time it actually takes!) The wood part under the boat in this photo is his modification

..........I guess that can be considered packing? In fairness, he's done an incredible job with the beginning stages packing the POD having completely disassembled our IKEA furniture and fit it in so it occupies very little room compared to what it would have occupied had it not been disassembled.

I do have almost everything in boxes, have sold a lot on Craig's List, etc.,

HOWEVER, neither of us can do much more until the (I will refrain from saying *^%(*^(*&^&^) boat preparation is finished and the boat is on its way to a friend's house (friend shown here on left).

Dave has a specific, well-thought-out plan to load the POD so everything, from our large sofa down to tiny needles, will have a place of its own, but until he gets this boat thing finished, we can't do much more of anything to implement said plan. I won't go into problems with registering the boat trailer at the DMV; just too too grim!

Anyway, it's late Thursday afternoon, the 15th; the boat is about to be towed to above friend's house in a rural area where we will pick it up on our way to Washington. It will stay at the friend's house for about a week. In the meantime, I'm hoping we'll finish packing...........wish us luck!

.............here are a few more photos of the sweet little boat itself. It really is a charmer and another reason (sailing on beautiful Puget Sound) we're moving to where we are. Just wish this part of things was over! Oh, and the bank appraisal reached our particular bank today and should be in the hands of the loan officer tomorrow. When approved, I think then we can actually say we're home owners, but maybe not until the keys are in hand................we hope by the 29th.

Di & Dave