“When I’m on the boat I feel all young and happy and light and fancy and gay and spritely. And when I get home I can hardly move. Everything is sore and stiff.“–Milly McCoy of SV Mary Joy, in an email to Schooner Mahdee last night after a wonderful day of buddy boating and anchoring on the Georgiana Slough in the California Delta.
Author Archives: Brenda
The Linus Blanket-Afghan
I admit it–aboard Mahdee, our soft knitted afghan is getting used for everything by me. I’m beginning to feel like Linus and his blue blanket. In the comic strip, he used that blanket as a weapon, sunshade, tent, umbrella, and other things as well as just to provide security. Here, I find myself using it as a sunshade in the chart house as well as cuddle blanket, pillow, foot rest, and to cover up things I don’t want Beryl to chew on (like computer wires) while I’m out of the room. David and Beryl also like to swipe my afghan and use it in their own ways. David sleeps under it off-watch and Beryl kneads it with her paws whenever she’s feeling especially cuddly.
I’m excited that the friend who made the afghan has made another one for us. The new one is in my favorite color of cobalt blue. We don’t have an address here, so we had her send it to general delivery in Walnut Grove, CA. We’ll be headed in that direction tomorrow or Monday to pick it up. Then I’ll we will have two afghans!
Sunshade behind the computer
David sleeping under the afghan off watch
PS just in case you were wondering–yes, we’re still eating blackberries! David’s stack of pancakes this morning on one of my favorite (cobalt blue) plates:
A Day In The Slough Life
Every day starts with eating some form of blackberries. Here, it is blackberries on frosted shredded wheat and almond milk.
After breakfast, comes a bit of work. On this day, David is scraping, scraping, scraping, and sanding the helm so Brenda can varnish, varnish, and varnish it. Whoever is not varnishing or scraping is inside on the computer working for a bit.
After a few coats of varnish, the helm starts looking pretty spiffy
After a project, it’s always good to spend some of the hot afternoon enjoying the warm fresh waters of the slough.
The next day, repeat pretty much the same things–oh, except sometimes you have to throw in a trip to the blackberry bushes via canoe to get some more.
