Well we are now into August and I guess the summer doldrums are in full swing in southern IN. We have not had good wind to sail with since the middle of July. We have gone over and motored twice and really hoped to get over to the boat this weekend but it rained pretty much all weekend and the wind was no where to be found.
We thought that surely at some point the wind would blow but even during the downpours we had off and on it was non existent. I checked the weather report at the airport in Bloomington several times yesterday and the best it got was winds from the southeast at 3 knots. Oh boy, we might have had to reef the main sail with winds like that!!!
Wouldn't you know it, we go back to work on Monday and the wind finally starts to blow!!! There is a nice 10-12 knot breeze blowing out of the southwest today. ARGH!!!!! Talk about torture! Nothing worse than being stuck inside a office when you wish you were outside playing. Especially after enduring a rain soaked weekend with no outside fun. We made the best of it and went antiquing and wine tasting and had a really fun time but I think we both really wished we could have gotten back on the boat and actually sailed before we forget what little we have learned. Enough whining about the wind, or the lack there of. We are not the only ones wishing it would blow again someday. Preferably some day that we have off!!!
So why do we blog? For those of you that are reading this that keep a blog yourself then you know that it takes quite a bit of time to type a blog entry, especially if your typing skills are along the same level as mine. The blog was actually Cindy's idea. It went something along the lines of "You know what we should do? We should start a blog about our sailing adventures!". Well I knew that meant that I should figure out how to blog and do one for us LOL! The blog really started out as a way for us to keep track of our new sailing adventure, the progress we made on the boat, and us learning to sail. But it has kinda morphed into more of a running autobiography of us as a couple and the experiences we share. Well at least the ones clean enough to share on a public forum LOL!
Cindy and I are always busy doing something fun when we are together. Sometimes I am amazed that we get anything done at home as it seems we are always out playing somewhere. That might explain why we are going on year number 3 at our new home and it still is not done. I can build a house is pretty quick. I tore down the old house and built a new one in 3 months. But to actually finish a house you built yourself and moved into before it was totally complete, well, that takes years to finish!!! I am so lucky that Cindy understands I can't be working on it if we are out playing and she rates playing above house projects. (Just so you don't think we are living in a half finished house, it is probably more along the lines of 95% complete. Just need to finish some trim, the basement needs finished, and landscaping.) Anyway, back to why we blog. I think one big reason is that with the fact that we are always do something fun I fear over time we might run the risk of forgetting parts of the fun we have. So I try to be very detailed in my writings so as to try and capture all the fun aspects of our adventures. Have you ever seen the movie The Notebook? In a way this blog is our notebook. I have always felt that in the end all you really have are your memories and depending on what winds up taking your life that is not a guarantee. So in the event one of us would ever find ourselves in a position where we loose our memory the other one will have this blog to fall back on to use as a tool to refresh the other's memory. We love to sit in front of our fireplace on cold winter's nights with our feet up on the hearth while we share a yummy winter beverage. I can see us in the years to come going back and reading entries we made and sharing laughs about funny things we remember from those adventuress.
Another reason we take the time to write what we do is I think we both hope if by sharing our adventures we can be of some inspiration to others who think doing the things we do might be fun but they just aren't sure they could do it or not. Hopefully by reading about all our trials, goofs, and errors we encounter and all the fun we have experiencing new things others might realize almost anyone can do what we do and have fun doing it. I have learned a lot by reading others people's blogs. I like to think we have had a "fairly" problem free time at learning to sail. Granted, we have had our fair share of goofs, but I shudder to think what it might have been like had I not read about all the goofs others have made. I have always read aviation accident reports and have tried to approach my flying career by trying not to make the same mistakes others have made. I have made a few of my own that I should not have but fortunately have not made all the ones I have read about. I took the same approach to sailing and so far I think we have benefited from that. Just wish I would have read about making sure your keel was locked up before you tried to launch your boat. That would have made launching our boat so much easier the first two times we tried!!! Hopefully someone just starting out reads that entry and makes sure their keel is up and locked before they try launching their boat. Nothing worse than having your boat that drafts 18" backed down into 4 feet of water and yet you are still unable to get it off the trailer!!! Someone really should have said if our exhaust is blowing bubbles in the water and the boat still won't float off the trailer you have a problem!
I just got back from running to lunch. Yes, the darn wind is still blowing, Argh! I am tempted to text my beautiful lil lady and see what time she might get home this evening. Since it is the first Monday of the school year she will probably be swamped and running late, sigh. But if not and the wind continues to blow I would love to run over and sail this evening. The summer is quickly coming to an end and I would love to sail and make as many memories as we can before we have to bring the Memory Maker home. Granted after we bring her home we will just transition into our winter activities and make memories doing those but we have gotten bit hard by the sailing bug and really want to enjoy it as much as possible. Speaking of winter activities, just to give you a heads up of what you can expect out of us this winter, we will be busy preparing the Memory Maker for new paint, while we hopefully xc ski every time the snow flies(and I hope that is often!) We are also going to drive 13 hours north to the UP of Michigan to ski a mile into a rustic/primitive cabin, i.e. no running water or inside bathroom, for two nights, pulling our gear on pulk sleds I made for us last winter. We are going to snow shoe and xc ski during the day and listen to the wolves howl and the waves of lake Superior lap at the shore line 130 feet north of cabin at night! That should be an adventure we never forget!!!
Decisions, decisions, I just checked weather the wind is still blowing but there are some thunderstorms popping up to our northwest but I think they might move through by the time we could get to the lake if Cindy gets off at her normal time. I hate to text her and ask her what time she will get home as I don't want her to feel stressed but I hate for us to miss a chance to sail. I will flip a coin. Ok, I just picked heads and it was heads. I am texting her. Wish us luck and pray for wind!!!
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