Killing time.

It's seems the past year we have just been waiting for the days to pass. Miserable in this posting we are just trying to kill time until we can get out of here. Killing time between off rotations when work can get done on the boat killing time until Christmas... Just seems I'm just abiding until the next thing happens, but the next thing comes and it seems we,re just waiting for the next thing. I don't like the feeling that I'm just waiting my life away.

This past week has been particularly difficult, Marks motorbike and only means of transportation to work, was broken AGAIN, which means he steals my truck and only means of transportation and leaves me stuck out in this horrible woods alone with the three kids. Seems like cruel and unusual punishment to me. 

To pass the time I've been baking for Christmas, crocheting funny hats for the kids.

Mark finally finished the tiling on the boat, looks good.

Packing Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes and dropping them off in Burlington, WA.

We are currently in another off oration where mark has a few days off so he's been trying to get time on the boat but unfortunately it's hard when we barely see him all week, we of course want to see him when he's off but kids and the boat don't mix when it's such a disaster down there. Here we are having ice cream after a boat work trip was cut short because of a dock cart mishap. Finn and Mac were in the front of the cart when Ash hopped out the back, thus making the cart tip forward, trapping Finns fingers between the edge of the cart and the dock, he peels a couple layers of skin off his fingers.

Of course ice cream fixes even the worst of boo boo's.

Finns expression when I turned the iPad camera around so he could see how messy his face was.

Glacier slow, we are getting minuscule things done on the boat. The wood stove shelf is done and now we need to install the stove, get some chimney pipe, drill a hole in the deck for the pipe to come out of, we would do this now but we need to wait until next payday, Christmas shopping sure puts the squeeze on the wallet. I hate delays, but it always adds up, it's not just the chimney pipe we need to buy, it's heat proof silicone, it's a four inch hole drill bit, a diamond drill bit to drill anchor holes through the porcelain tile on the shelf, it just all adds up quick.

But soon we will be switching our sights onto the head reno and plumbing (oh Lord help us). Unfortunately do to a gross miscalculation we currently have two 55 gallon hard moulded plastic water tanks and no place to put them, we meant to get 35 gallon but now we can't return them. So what to do? We decided to try and put them in the amas rather than the engine compartment aft, which actually is a better arrangement but they are too big to get in there as well, they'd fit in if we could have built the boat around them but there is no way they can get through the hatch opening accessing the amas, certainly not without doing major structural reconstruction on the boat which ain't gonna happen. So now we are investigating plastic welding, we can't alter the boat, so we alter the tanks, we need to cut about a foot off of the length of the tanks and weld the end back on. DIY? Or Hire a professional?

I guess it will all come down to money. Doesn't it always?