We are finally ready to move the boat. It’s scheduled for Saturday and I’ll try to see if I can get some pictures. I moved my Silver Streak down to the river on Friday. I’m about done with the old place. I’m going out tomorrow to give it one last look and see what I missed moving. Then I’ll be done with it. I wish I could be sad about this. I’m sad about losing Jeffrey, not losing the place. After dealing with the snow on my own, I’ve had enough of it. We are finally seeing the last of it melt up at the house.
Life has been okay. I spent a week in town, while the boyfriend was sick. It’s a long commute to work, but most of it is on the freeway. It wasn’t bad. I’m back at the house and I think the dogs want to catch up on their sleep. They spend the day outside in town and they just don’t sleep as well. The old dog is really failing and I don’t think she has many months left. I don’t think she could handle boat life, in any case. I’ll just have to see how it goes.
More than anything else, I want to have a place where I feel like I’m at home. The boyfriend’s house will never be that place. The house in the mountains isn’t mine and the cats seem to have taken it over in my absence. I can’t live in the trailer any more. I don’t know what I will do, if life on the boat doesn’t work out. It seems to be my future and I can’t see anything else. I am going to try and go through the things I moved and see what I can get rid of. I have some ideas on how to decorate the inside of the boat. I just need the money and time to do the work.
Sending you some good karma on your new adventure, with warm sunshine
and spring time in the air…
You’ll do fine on the water. From what I’ve read about your recent life it’s time for something completely different.
One of the wisest comments I ever read was by Betty Wilson, the wife of Sloan Wilson who wrote The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. She wrote a book of her own, “Away from It All,” long out of print, about the two of them buying a boat, moving aboard and their trip down to Florida.
She said:
“If we’re really going to start a new life, we have to kill the old one. That’s why most people never really start anything new. They’re claimed by old lamps and bureaus left to them by their grandmothers.
Smart woman. Wish I had had a chance to meet her in person.