Today is the First Day of the Rest of My Blog

The Delta is such an amazingly beautiful place. The summer was so much fun there; so many cool shore birds, coyotes howling at night, friendly dockmates, the warm water, INCREDIBLE sunsets...I will really miss it. But it was time to go....to The Bay...I Love San Francisco!! We set out on Thanksgiving Day and got all the way to a marina in Pittsburg. It was night by the time we went under the Antioch Bridge, very pretty with it alight. That was kinda trippy, my first time going UNDER a bridge in a sailboat. Of course I KNEW we could clear the mast by plenty, but it STILL was freaky! We spent the night at a little marina there, then set out early on Friday... So, it only took until Friday afternoon to get to our new marina in Richmond. We settled in for the night. Saturday, we decided to go out on the bay for the first time. We headed toward marin and then decided to stop in Tuburon for a break for awhile. The little marina had a restaurant and we enjoyed some nice hot clam chowder, then...

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.--Jesse Jackson We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.--Charles R. Swindoll It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.--Confucius He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.--George Orwell The heart that truly loves never forgets.--Proverb

i'm absolutely loving the experience so far. we basically spent last thursday thru saturday at the boat. with cleaning it, polishing the wood, fixing little things here and there, getting the mainsail up...whew. it was a lot of work. but im really excited. now...i really want to go sailing! we've been so busy getting her ready, and the fact that we're waiting on a surveyor so we can insure her, that we havent actually gone sailing yet! i know, these things take time, im patient. ive really enjoyed the "nesting", just getting to know the nooks and crevices and places to stow stuff on her, planning where to put things, getting some new items, that part has been nice, relaxing. one of the sweetest nights was at sundown after a long day's work, William and i just sitting around, drinking rum & cokes, talking, laughing, feeling sore and listening to a little blues on the portable. i just loved that. there's plenty time for sailing soon...

im just feeling greatful for all the amazing people in my life today. my daughter, so precious to me, is turning into a beautiful young woman, jumping into adulthood with a little trepidation, but also a fortitude that i greatly admire. she's so smart, so resourceful and i just love her so much, she has no idea. i also have some wonderful friends that have been beside me through some very painful times, always asking what they can do to help. i cherish their presence in my life, i am so lucky, so fortunate. but today, particularly, im greatful for my sweet husband. two years ago today, we joined hands on a breathtaking, beautiful hilltop, a place special and dear to the two of us, and took one another as lifemates. he is my king of hearts, as kerry likes to say, but more than that, i know he will stand beside me through whatever comes along. knowing that he is there, no matter what, makes all the difference; it's the world of all possibilties. with that, anything can happen, be...

well, it looks like i have another adventure in store. we bought a sailboat. i've been sailing once before and really enjoyed it. i've always found sailing an intriguing idea, sort of envied those that were able to afford to have a sailboat, never thought i'd be able to have one. and then... i met a sailor. a scallywag. im not even sure what a scallywag is, actually. maybe he's not one. probably not. anyway, my husband has definitely got saltwater and or freshwater , for that matter, in his veins. i do, too, but in the way of loving the water, craving it, but not much experience in the sailing part. im really looking forward to this. he's gonna teach me the ropes. the ropes, get it? god, im so funny, i can't stand it.

So, yesterday two celebrities died. I'll preface this and say didn't know either of them personally, so my opinions of each are based upon my own conjecture, suppositions and "sixth sense". The first, a gentle spirit, fought a long, hard battle with a debilitating, somewhat embarrassing condition. She chose to confirm and make it public on her own terms, after being "outed" by an unscrupulous person in the medical field that, instead of protecting a patient's privacy with integrity, decided to be a money-whore. So, Farrah chose to make her anal cancer very public, by airing her battle on television in the hope of bringing awareness to the disease. This, I believe, showed an amazing amount of courage, on her and her family's part. There's no way in hell I would have done it that way, I'm too much of a coward for that. Well, the battle ended yesterday. I won't say she lost, I refuse to, because she fought to the end until there was nothing...