The warmth of summer has incited some recent changes in our schedule...
Brian does his paid work from about 5am to 7 or so when Heather gets up. Boat work is down util noon or so. When the weather gets hot, Brian goes back to paid work until dinner. Maybe an hour or so after if things need done. The boat work usually in a stretch from 7 or 8 until 9 or 10 when we get showers and watch a dvd. That is our day.
It has also been suggested that if we moved back on land that we would be able to save and invest for the future (and then we could maybe do something like buy a sailboat and travel) Hmmm.
On land we had rent/mortgage, electric bill, water bill, sewage bill, telephone bill, internet bill, cable bill, car payment, insurance payment, property taxes, minimum $30-50/week in gas for said car, etc.
On the boat we have the phone/internet bill, $30/three months in fuel, insurance.
TWO LINES LESS OF EXPENSES JUST TO START MY DAY!
Food and such notwithstanding...that really isn't an optional expense.
Boats are NOT more expensive...IF you do everything yourself. Every bit of maintenance from the Perkins 4-107 to working on the wind generator, toilet repair, fiberglass repair... everything from stem to stern we do ourselves. It is a lot of work. I go through an enormous amount of elbow grease. But that is free. And we don't write checks to Tom's Dive Service or Bob's Engine Repair.
HPP&L - Holding Pattern Power and Light gets a call and a friendly (and cute)workman appears instantly and gets the job done...usually later than sooner because he learns as he goes. There is always a beautiful assistant/apprentice who is learning the trade as well. Together they fix ALL of their own problems. Amazingly enough, neither can remember their last argument or what it was about. That's a good team to have working together, eh? This week HPWMD (Water Management District) gets to take apart the alien galley faucet (from South Africa and try to retrofit parts to stop the leak...) We'll let you know how that goes.
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