a little bit every day

We are doing a little bit every day, and almost all the interior is now provisionally clad  in white, affixed with stainless steel screws. About a thousand of them. This gives us an ever better idea of what it will look like when we get a day warm enough to take it all down, glue it in place, then refit the screws with their special washers.

   Eventually the joins and edges will be trimmed with strips of oak. This is a view forward through the galley to the salon beyond.

Interlocking mega-projects

While we have been 6 months away, building the "family resort" on Vancouver Island, invasive bamboo has been taking over the "family home" in Raleigh, NC. John had already cut a lot of it down when I got my first look at the 6 inch high, 2 1/2 inch diameter green tubes spread about our back lawn. It was my very own "Day of the Triffids" horror show! Years ago, when I planted a single shoot for spring vegetables I never gave any thought to what might happen if it went considerable time without mowing. There had been one shoot, then 4 shoots, then 15(small)shoots, never enough for a good meal, garden stakes,  or even a fishing  line, so I forgot about it. Suddenly here is a forest of 40-ft. "bad grass". Reading up online how to get rid of the stuff was not encouraging. After a day of despair we got to it, and hey presto: not impossible after all. Excellent upper body exercise to clean off the side shoots with a machete: a little every day! Don't know what I'll do with it, but it's great stuff!

 A first look at the Black Pearl was pretty discouraging as well! It's hard to remember what we were up to last April, and there sure is a lot more to do than I remembered, beyond the fact that the deck is a foot deep in fallen leaves & they are not even all fallen!

A simple place to begin is to finish cladding the interior with white fibreglass sheeting, so that is this week's effort: not thrilling, but it will look nice. We sat around a while enjoying the space. It will be fun when we get to live aboard again! 

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