bobbie321 Posted February 2010
Grossed out and need to vent—I just caught Mom using my toothbrush to comb her hair!
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You guys are going to be righteous to hang out with.
61' Davis has a great galley, plenty of storage. We'll have to put a wind generator and some photovoltaic cells on so we can be 'on the hook' and still run the fridge and washer and dryer without starting the gen-set or engines.
On the hook is anchored, not docked. We'll have a dinghy so we can go ashore and get the coconuts and pineapples for the Pina Coladas.
Our boat will have a relatively shallow draft (4-5 feet) so even when we're anchored in a cove we can still get out and touch bottom. that will make it easy for me to clean the bottom of the boat every other day or so. Easy to wipe the boat's bottom..... the next time I wipe mom's bottom I'm going to be thinking of barnacles.
If we're on the hook, no one can find us unless we want them to. I'll make sure the locator radar is off so we can sneak around.
Pasta is especially a good boat dish. So's fish! anybody like to fish?
Trawlers are slow and they'll only cruise at about 7-9 knots.
Now this action happens in the COCKpit. You take a long cotton clothesline and attach tri hooks and lures about every 6-8 feet.
Remember: little lure: little fish. Big lure: Big fish.
You tie the clothesline to a cleat in the cockpit and throw it off the stern (back of the boat) you take the line and loop it back on itself and clip it with a clothspin.
Now you sit down and have a cigarette and a cocktail.
When the clothespin pops off you have a fish.
The guy that taught me that one would use that system when he left Ft.Lauderdale for Freeport in the Bahamas. He said he always had more fish than he could eat and was able to have great fish frys on the beach with other boaters who would be appreciative and get him hammered.
We'll have a nice freezer for the fish. Most of these boats have wet bars too. Insane, you gotta love it.
I can cook, but I don't have the passion for it. I can roast meat very well for some reason and always make good traditional dinners like Thanksgiving turkey, Prime Rib and pork roast, that kind of thing. I also make good gravy and mashed potatoes but as we all know, you can only eat that stuff now and again.
OK Miz Demi I like the vegetarian stuff a lot but I like meat but only every few days or so. I actually like a lot of macrobiotic stuff which stores easily on a boat (brown rice and different japanese beans, sea vegetables, stuff like that.)
I like to bake bread and I have my own roll to prove it and I like to bake chocolate cakes. If I succumbed to my baking urges we would need a barge.
Ok, sailors, fun dreaming and planning with you guys.
lovbob
cereal
pasta
veggie burgers
baked potatoes
a great salad bar
pizza
chinese food
japanese food
mexican food
pretty much anything salty
peanut m&m's
reese's pieces
those big pretzels
ice cream
cake
brownies
muffins
oatmeal
bread
and so on...
Spaghetti
Steak
Loaded baked potato no sour cream
Spaghetti
My homemade chili
My beef veggie soup
Sweet n Sour Chicken
Pork fried rice
Spaghetti
Fried Chicken
..................
Wait.. did i mention spaghetti??
ttrox - I took my grandmother's neosporin away months ago because I was afraid she'd do the same thing. Either that or put it in her eyes. She is still mad at me about it!
ttrox, you like boats??
when I was a little kid, I put Brylcreem on my toothbrush. arg.
yes nins, on the beach with our vice of choice!
You guys drink and I'm having chicken and waffles!
lovbob
And until we take that cruise-how bout this afternoon the whole lot of us (along with drinky-poo's) take a stroll on the beach here? Its about 75 degress and sunny.
I'm having fun imagining this. :)))
As far as placing your mother, it actually shows how much you do love her that you're putting her in a place with professionals that can take wonderful care of her. And I think Pamela is right-she'll be swingin' from the rafters and you'll be able to see her tighty-whities! You're doing a great thing, dear, just hang in there :)
Ain't it 5:oo somewhere yet?
Can I bring my darlin; Golden "Goober"? Scuttling off to the smoking section.....
Furthermore I'm wondering whether you guys don't know something I don't-ie that hard liqour works better than wine for the gross outs?
KelleyBean, nothing like chocolate dripping down your walls. At least you'll have 2 rooms that match.....!
my index finger hurts from the spray bottle....
lovbob
Nik will be going to dinner (3 bucks) and lunch (3 bucks) when he can so mom knows that she's not abandoned.
Once they see what Nik can put away they are going to charge 4 bucks.
The faster I get this done and get back here the faster I can go have dinner with mom.
It's nice place run by Jewish people so I'll be able to take mom out to eat for her favorites: a BLT. shrimp too!
i think that she's really going to like it because here she has to wait for Nik or me to cook, even though she always has enough food, she forgets she eats... you know how that goes... and at the place they'll have food available all the time. Mom won't pork out like I would....
you guys are totally getting through this very very tough day. the whole week is going to be a bear. Ok the whole freakin month is ....
lovbob Salty ol' Trawler Woof Woof Bob ya right.
Actually, I would do it if I thought I could. A lot of very experienced brokers out there with all the tricks up their sleeves and they can't move boats.
I'm looking forward to going to seamanship school!! har har.
I have to know the actual name of the pointy end.
lovbob
#1 washing the walls from splashed hot chocolate, the floor.. her clothes..
#2 a pro.. the dishes will be pre-rinsed for when i rewash them haha
Miz, there are docks right here in alexandria! we'll wait together for them lol
It may actually be an interesting process if I can keep my emotions out of it. Fat chance on that one.
I want to auction everything and move on. EVERYTHING. All of these THINGS are killing me too.
One of the reasons I really like boats. You can only get so much crap on a boat and then you have to make some decisions sooner rather than later.
My apt here is a nice size, but I can't live in a big house like the one I grew up in. It's beautiful but what a job! The second summer I was there, after repairing the inside, I worked on the landscaping, planted a beautiful willow tree, etc etc and kept the lawn mowed and the edging done. The plants already there are beautiful, mom has a wonderful garden and i continued on with it.
One of the things I noticed is that when you cut the grass, about a week later it wants you to cut it again.
Pretty soon you're shoving this loud thing along and wondering why you're not on a BOAT!
Pam, I love your scenerio, love it thanks.
lovbob
Where is everyone else from? (Must think of the closest ports to pick everyone up lol)
the shortest for this place would be 2 months. We can bail her out any time we please, but it's a 2 month committment $.
After visiting a few places I liked this one because of the vibe, straight up. Man, am I from California or what
Mom is getting more and more disoriented and harder to care for. She needs pros at this point which is also why I felt more comfortable in going with a 2 month committment as opposed to a 2 week. I was afraid that I would not get my business finished in time, etc etc and she would be yanked around. This way she knows she can settle in to the Resort ;) and have a good time. We are both under the impression that we have a choice and mom can choose to come out and move back in but I think that we both really know that this may be it.
I'm afraid that she'll give up before I get back. Breaks my heart. i have to go and handle this stuff. Can't put it off any longer.
OK. that's that.
Now, KellyBean where are you? I have to fly into Philly to get to South Jersey (exit 4)
don't worry about the bird poo. I know a guy who owns a carwash and we'll get a discount.
hey Demi... glad you like the smoking section.
thanks you guys,
lovbob
You mom will go to the facility. She will be so pampered and involved in activities that she won't even think about you. She'll meet new friends, and maybe even a special man. She will be the bell of the ball, new people always are and if you are her daughter, I know she's special like that.
Upon your return you'll go to see her and you'll find her hanging from the chandaleer, shouting whewwwwwww yahhhhhhhhhh. Then when she sees you she'll say: "you back so soon, I was just getting started"!
And that's the name of that tune.
Miz wine in a box it is, kellybean I'm headed to costco to get plenty of clean kleenex.
As for me, I'm getting together all my albums, yes I said albums so that the music will be endless on the boat.
I'm so glad I have received so much support from you guys, and I hope I've been able to shed a little cheer in your lives as well.
luv all of you and I really do hope that we all meet one day.
Now that is my dream.