Ouest and I have been playing Mailman lately. I’m the mailman and I make deliveries to her. Before I give her the mail I say, “Special delivery for Ouest. Oh, hello, who are you?”
Reaching out for her stack of cards she blurts out, “O-U-E-S-T. Ouest Lill Schulte. Forty-three pounds. I live on Bumfuzzle. I’m from Mexico.”
And really, that’s all you need to know about her. With that information she should be able to find her way home from anywhere else in the world. At the very least her mail will always find her.
We’ve had something like three weeks now, of nights in which there is not a ripple on the water. There is absolutely no motion on the boat, no way to sense that we are actually on a sailboat floating on the ocean. When living on land, staring out at the ocean, it always seems to be mayhem out there. From that vantage point the ocean seems so forbidding a place—even to me right up to this day. Which is why to so many people the idea of living on a boat is completely outlandish—you’d have to be out of your mind. But the reality of the ocean is that it lies flat for us more often than not—whether in port or a thousand miles from land. Which is why this outlandish lifestyle works I suppose.
4 Comments on “Playing Mailman”
Great shots, I really like following you guys around, I especially like the wildlife shots, which brings me to my point or whatever. SNORKEL GEAR, maybe you have it but I don’t recall reading much about that. Anyway, Under the water is where all the life really is, The view is above, the movie is below. Good luck and have fun.
ps, yes to solar elect, new refridgeration, and a watermaker,
Yes we’ve got snorkel gear. When it was just Ali and I we snorkeled pretty much daily. These days with the kids so young we find that we hardly ever break it out. If it’s not something we can do together it’s generally not something that gets done. That’ll change eventually, but for now that’s the way it is.
You always bring back memories of my own kids. At Ouest’s age Jolea would answer the question “what’s your name?” with “Jolea Cruzan, C-R-U-Z-A-N, and THIS….. is MY Mother!” Lowe is making great strides with the swimming, btw, it was Jolea who taught him to swim. He too copied everything that big sister did.
Hi, pat and Ali! We commissioned our fleet Saturday and Neil, Maureen are heading east for a while come the end of June….I was thinking you need waterskis….or at least drag the kids on the surfboard behind the dinghy…just wanted to say hi!